IOC Focal points: Question 2.4: If applicable, to what extent does the following help your country with regards to strengthened coordination with global, regional or sub-regional IOC communities and local networks?

Country	Institution	Your Position	Gender	Improved staffing of secretariat of regional sub-commissions	Reinforced budgeting of regional sub-commissions	Establishing an effective coordination and communication mechanism between the regional sub-commissions	Establishing an effective coordination and communication mechanism between the regional sub-commissions and the global programmes	Establishing an effective coordination and communication mechanism between countries not covered by IOC regional subsidiary bodies and the global programmes	Other suggestions?
Argentina	Servicio de HidrografÃa Naval	Technical Secretary	Male	Not Necessary	Not Necessary	Not Necessary	Not Necessary	Essential
Benin	Institut de Recherches Halieutiques et Océanologiques du Bénin (IRHOB)	Director		Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important
Chile	CHILEAN NAVY HYDROGRAPHIC AND OCEANOGRAPHIC SERVICE	DIRECTOR	Male	Very Important	Very Important	Essential	Essential	Essential
Colombia	Colombian Ocean Commission	International Adviser	Female	Very Important	Of Some Importance	Of Some Importance	Essential	Very Important
Comoros	Université des Comores	Lecturer	Male	Essential	Very Important	Essential	Very Important	Essential
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea	State Hydro-Meteorological Administration	Director	Male	Of Some Importance	Of Some Importance	Essential	Essential	Very Important
Egypt	National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries	President of National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries	Male	Very Important	Essential	Very Important	Essential	Of Some Importance
El Salvador	Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales	Especialista en Oceanografía	Male	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important
Estonia	Ministry of the Environment	Coordinator	Male	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important
Finland	Finnish Meteorological Institute	Safety, Head of Group	Female	I don’t know	Of Some Importance	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important
France	Comité national français pour la COI	Présidente	Female	Not Necessary	Not Necessary	Of Some Importance	Very Important	Of Some Importance	Tsunami TOWS Working Group and the 4 ICGs to be reinforced. Relations with the regional sub-commissions, apart from the Caribbean sub-commission, have always been complicated and unsuccessful because the ICGs deal with basins (Pacific, Indian Ocean, Caribbean, North-East Atlantic and Mediterranean) that don’t correspond to the regional groups.
Germany	Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency	Secretariat of German IOC-Section	Male	Not Necessary	Not Necessary	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important
Guinea	Centre de Recherche Scientifique de Conakry Rogbanè (CERESCOR)	Chercheur Océanographe / Directeur Ecole Doctorale en Océanographie, Environnement Marin et Côtier	Male	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important
India	INCOIS	Director	Male	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science	Director	Male	Of Some Importance	Very Important	Not Necessary	Of Some Importance	Of Some Importance
Kenya	Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute	Director-Focal Point 3	Male	Very Important	Very Important	Not Necessary	Not Necessary	Very Important	I think the solution is adding staff and getting documents being translated English to French so that there s cross-fertilisation between the north/West Africa and Southern Africa countries
Kuwait	Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research	Principal Research Scientist, Kuwait Representative to IOC	Female	Of Some Importance	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Of Some Importance
Lebanon	National Centre for Marine Sciences-CNRSL	Director of the Centre & Researcher	Male	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important
Mexico	MEXICO NODC	Coordinator	Male	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important
Morocco	INRH	National Focal Point	Male
Nigeria	Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research	Director	Male	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important
Pakistan	National Institute of Oceanography	Senior Research Scientist	Female	Essential	Essential	Essential	Very Important	Very Important
Panama	Autoridad Marítima de Panamá	Jefe de Ambiente	Male	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important
Peru	DirecciÃ³n de HidrografÃa y NavegaciÃ³n – PerÃº	Director	Male	Of Some Importance	I don’t know	Of Some Importance	Of Some Importance	Of Some Importance
Portugal	Instituto Hidrografico	Oceanographer	Female	I don’t know	I don’t know	I don’t know	I don’t know	I don’t know
Sudan	UNESCO Chair on Marine Biology and Oceanography /	Chairholder	Male	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Of Some Importance	Very Important
Sweden	SMHI	Senior oceanographer/data manager	Female	Of Some Importance	Of Some Importance	Of Some Importance	Of Some Importance	Of Some Importance
Togo	University of Lome	Lecturer, IOC National Focal Point	Male	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Of Some Importance
Tunisia	Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer (INSTM)	Professor	Male	Of Some Importance	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important
United Republic of Tanzania	Institute of Marine Sciences, UDSM	PO box 668, Zanzibar, Tanzania	Male	Essential	Essential	Essential	Essential	Very Important
Vietnam	Institute of Oceanography, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology	Director	Female	Not Necessary	Very Important	Essential	Essential	I don’t know
ADDITIONAL
Ecuador	Instituto Oceanográfico y Antártico de la Armada	Investigador Oceanográfico	Female	Of Some Importance	Of Some Importance	Very Important	Very Important	Very Important