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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
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.
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 OSDS12 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.
maritime-boundary-agreements
11.
boundries-with-the-us/
12.
Source: UNEP Shelf Programme
Donors and recipients of data from the One Stop Data Shop
From beginning of the UNEP Shelf Programme to end of 2013
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 andTechnology; JODC - Japanese National Oceanographic Data Center; NGDC - National
Geophysical Data Center; NIWA - National Institute ofWater and Atmospheric Research; NOC - National Oceanography Centre; ODP – Ocean Drilling Project;WHOI -Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution;
NGDC WHOI
IDEO
ODP
BGR
BSH
IPGS IFREMER
NOC
JAMSTEC&
JODC
NIWA
GA
Developing states who received
data from the one stop data shop
Data supplier institutions that made
data available for the one stop data
shop
Small island developing states who
received data from the one stop
data shop
Philippines
Maldives Trinidad &Tobago
Seychelles
Mauritius
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
Palau F. S. Micronesia
Solomon
Islands
Fiji
Kiribati
Cook
Islands
Tonga
Cape Verde
Sao Tome
& Principe
Sri Lanka
Vietnam
Brunei
Papua New Guinea
Bangladesh
Somalia
Kenya
Tanzania
Madagasgar
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
The Gambia
Chile Uruguay
Costa
Rica
Cuba
Guyana
Senegal
Angola
South Africa
Cameroon
Mauritania
Marshell
Islands
Malaysia
Ecuador
Sierra Leone
Liberia
Morocco
Donors and recipients of data from the one Stop Data Shop: from beginning of the Shelf programme to end of 2013.