Programme Cooperation Agreement 2010 – 2011

• Training course held in the Seychelles from 13 to 21 April 2011. Main focus on technical advice in connection with the submission document. Data fromOSDS provided in this connection. • Technical advice and support provided to the Republic of Tanzania to finalise the sub- mission document. Revision of documents and workshops conducted in May, June and September 2011 (submission January 2012) • Advice and comments on submission given to Bangladesh (submission February 2011). • Technical advice provided to Costa Rica about a possible joint submission with Ecuador and Colombia around the Farralon Plate. • Capacity development offered to, and accepted by, the six West African states under point 1. Two training sessions held in 2011 and two more planned for 2012. • Capacity development project in general management of marine areas for developing states currently under development. • The regional continental shelf cooperation in the Pacific has been extended to general boundary delimitation, and the workshop in July 2011 included technical and legal sup- port for the negotiation of the 22 unresolved boundaries in the region. • Request from Uruguay and Argentina about revisions of their previous submissions and possible resubmissions. • The OSDS contains around 17000 public marine surveys, and there has been 5258 ex- ternal downloads of shapefiles from 1008 unique sides. The new data from the West African data acquisition programme will be incorporated in OSDS. An agreement with Ocean Data and Information Network (ODIN) about data sharing is under develop- ment. • GRID-Arendal provided data mining and networking for the European Marine Observa- tion and Data Network (EMODNET). This is a European Commission project aiming at improved access to high quality marine data. The focus in 2011 has been on identifica- tion of data from Lebanon, Israel, Turkey and North Africa. • GRID-Arendal has been contracted to develop the reporting system for the UN Regular Process. Main activities will start in 2012 (se B1), so data has not been provided yet.

3. Maintain competence and expertise in developing states until their submission is examined by the Commission on the Lim- its of the Continental Shelf (CLCS). UN General Assembly Resolution 57/141 (paragraph 38)

• Capacity building on extended conti- nental shelf issues offered to relevant developing states to promote sustain- able use of their marine environment • Annual workshops arranged and online service provided

4. Further develop the One Stop Data Shop into a multidisciplinary global ma- rine resource information database to serve activities and deliverables of inte- grated Oceans Management activity (and in support of external partners)

• Number of partnerships dedicated to the development of an information da- tabase (including back-end and front- end) to support ocean resources and environmental management and with particular focus on the continental shelf and deep sea) secured: 2-3 • Global Marine Resource Information Database (branded as OCEANIDS) based on emerging issues requiring specific data needs expanded. • Data support to UN Regular Process provided.

• Link to UNEP’s EDIP (Environmental Data and Indicators Platform) initiative explored and expanded. Collaborating with partners: Legal Department of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, SK, ECOWAS, IOC, CLCS, UNEP Regional Seas, Geoscience Australia, SOPAC, Commonwealth Secretariat Countries/regions assisted: West Africa, Somalia, Tanzania, Seychelles, Madagascar, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bangladesh and the Pacific states

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