Programme Cooperation Agreement 2012 – 2013

Boundaries partnership, 9 in which GRID-Arendal is ac- tively involved, is supporting regional organisations and governments to implement effective marine and coastal governance at community, national and regional scales. The partnership was recently part of a successful fund- ing application to the Australian Government – the pro- ject received the highest ranking in the competitive grant process that saw less than 15% of the submitted propos- als funded. The Pacific Islands are coming to the end of the first phase in securing legal rights over their maritime jurisdiction and resources. Only three of nine preliminary information documents remain to be converted into full submissions. The completed submissions would see countries increase their cumulative seabed territory by an area equivalent to the size of India. As the mammoth task of delineating the outer limits of Pacific Island States is completed, the re- gion is focusing on developing modern legislative frame- works for the definition of their territorial sea baselines

and other maritime zones. The partnership has been suc- cessfully supporting these endeavours with on-going ca- pacity building activities. 10, 11 Regarding further requests from countries outside the Pa- cific and West African initiatives, in May 2013, GRID-Aren- dal received a delegation from Benin to discuss a variety of technical issues related to their continental shelf work. Benin has progressed quite well on building a strong geo- logical case. This request is in addition to those received in 2012 from Barbados, Uruguay, Chile and Costa Rica.

 Further develop the one stop data shop

One Stop Data Shop (OSDS) The OSDS 12 continues to be a vital component of the Shelf Programme and many countries have used it over the years (see Map below). First time requests are still being re-

10. http://www.sidsnet.org/news/pacific-countries-sign-eight- maritime-boundary-agreements 11. http://pacific.scoop.co.nz/2013/12/kiribati-finalise-maritime- boundries-with-the-us/ 12. http://www.continentalshelf.org/onestopdatashop/1149.aspx

9. University of Sydney, GRID-Arendal, Geoscience Australia, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, the Forum Fisheries Agency, and the Australian Attorney General’s Department.

Donors and recipients of data from the one Stop Data Shop: from beginning of the Shelf programme to end of 2013.

Donors and recipients of data from the One Stop Data Shop From beginning of the UNEP Shelf Programme to end of 2013

Developing states who received data from the one stop data shop Small island developing states who received data from the one stop data shop Data supplier institutions that made data available for the one stop data shop

BSH

IPGS IFREMER NOC

BGR

WHOI

NGDC

JAMSTEC & JODC

IDEO

ODP

Morocco

Bangladesh

Cuba

Mauritania

Cape Verde

Philippines

Marshell Islands

Vietnam

Senegal

Guinea Guinea-Bissau The Gambia

Palau

F. S. Micronesia

Trinidad &Tobago

Costa Rica

Maldives

Sri Lanka

Brunei Malaysia

Cameroon

Kiribati

Somalia

Guyana

Sierra Leone

Sao Tome & Principe

Papua New Guinea

Liberia

Ecuador

Kenya Tanzania

Seychelles

Tuvalu

Solomon Islands

Angola

Madagasgar

Cook Islands

Fiji

Mauritius

Vanuatu

Tonga

South Africa

GA

Uruguay

Chile

NIWA

BGR - Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohsto e (Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources); BSH - Bundesamt für Seeschi fahrt und Hydrographie (Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency); GA - Geoscience Australia; IDEO - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; IPGS - L'Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg; IRFEMER – Insitut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (French Research Institute for Exploration of the Sea); JAMSTEC - Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology; JODC - Japanese National Oceanographic Data Center; NGDC - National Geophysical Data Center; NIWA - National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research; NOC - National Oceanography Centre; ODP – Ocean Drilling Project; WHOI - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution;

Source: UNEP Shelf Programme

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