GRID-Arendal: Annual Report 2012

ity to participate in the preparation of the submission. This and earlier workshops successfully established the framework for producing the submissions and strengthened the capacity of country officials to ana- lyse the geo-scientific data currently being collected. • In collaboration with the Applied Geoscience and Technology Division (SOPAC) of the Secretariat of the Pacific Commission (SPC), Geosciences Australia and the Commonwealth Secretariat, the UNEP/Shelf

States – Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bis- sau, Mauritania, Senegal and Sierra Leone. • The third in a series of workshops on capacity de- velopment for technical personnel from each of the West African States was conducted in August 2012 in Arendal. The aim is to develop an understanding of the concepts of Article 76 of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the steps involved in the submission process, and the technical capac-

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