The Shelf Programme: A decade of successfully helping to secure the sovereign maritime rights of developing Coastal States

Workshops and Networks

A large and rewarding part of the work of the Shelf Pro- gramme has been providing training to the technical per- sonnel from developing States. The Shelf Programme phi- losophy has been to train people to fully participate in the analysis of data and the preparation of the final submission documents. This has lead to full ownership of the process. It has also increased the number of technical experts with specific marine science skills related to bathymetry, seafloor geomorphology, geology, GIS and general computing as well as an increased understanding of the marine environ- ment and the need for good governance.

The networks developed during the Shelf Programme capacity building activities, principally in East andWest Africa and the Pacific, have built up a regional resource pool. The technical experts are continuing to work together on new regional marine projects, such as the Pacific Marine Minerals Project; the development of marine assessment capacity to support involvement in the United Nations regular process of marine assessment; and green economy for a blue world projects such as Blue Carbon.

Training workshops and their participants between 2005 to 2014

Note: If countries have done workshops with GRID-Arendal alone as well as joint GRID-Arendal & UN DOALOS workshops they are coloured as GRID-Arendal workshops, re ecting the fact that GRID-Arendal workshops were generally more intensive and followed on from the GRID-Arendal & UN DOALOS workshops.

China

Myanmar

Bahamas

India

Senegal Mauritania

Pakistan

Cuba

Bang- ladesh

Mexico

Philippines

Vietnam

Cabo Verde

Benin

Marshall Islands

Togo

Guinea-Bissau The Gambia

Barbados Suriname Trinidad &Tobago

Palau

Ghana

Nigeria

F. S. Micronesia

Costa Rica

Sri Lanka

Malaysia

Sierra Leone Guinea

Brunei

Somalia

Sao Tome & Principe Cote d´Ivoire

Nauru Kiribati

Papua New Guinea

Guyana

D.R. Congo

Kenya Tanzania

Gabon

Seychelles

Solomon Islands

Tuvalu

Indonesia

Comoros

Angola

Samoa

Participants

Cook Islands

Madagascar

Vanuatu

Fiji

80

Tonga

Mauritius

Niue

Namibia

Mozambique

70

South Africa

Uruguay

Chile

60

Argentina

50

40

30

20

10

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

GRID-ArendalWorkshops - regional or country speci c

GRID-Arendal & SOPACWorkshops

GRID-Arendal & UN DOALOSWorkshops

Source: GRID-Arendal

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