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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