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marine portfolio into ecosystem-based marine
management, blue carbon habitats and ecosystem
services, integrated marine and coastal spatial
planning and resolving new challenges arising
from extended continental shelf delineation.
Successful delivery of the 2014-2017 strategy will
rely heavily on resources. GRID-Arendal’s personnel
are the organisation’s greatest assets. Accordingly,
staff competencies will be nurtured, and enhanced
through a revitalised training programme. We shall
actively promote greater synergy amongst staff
throughout the whole organisation.
In parallel, financial policies will be put in place
to meet the added demands that the 2014–2017
strategy will inevitably place on the organisation.
Such policies will include more effective fiscal
management, transparency and the means of
integrating financial and project management. The
latter should go hand-in-hand with more effective
methods of financial planning and risk assessment.