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

Table of Contents

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Introduction The Shelf Programme The Work of the Shelf Programme

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The Components for Success Successful Capacity Building Spreading the Word Workshops and Networks Towards a New Map of the World Completing the Task and Taking it Further – The Marine and Coastal Resources Programme The Next Decade – Oceans of Possibilities and Responsibilities

Acronyms

CLCS ECOWAS ECS EPOG

Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf Economic Community of West African States Extended Continental Shelf

Enhancing Pacific Ocean Governance Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Preliminary Information Documents State of the Marine Environment Secretariat of the Pacific Community/Applied Geoscience and Technology Division United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea United Nations Division of Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea

MFA PIDs SOME SPC/SOPAC UNCLOS UN DOALOS

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