The Marine Regions Forum 2023 took place in the Western Indian Ocean, hosted by the United Republic of Tanzania and the Republic of Seychelles. The conference brought together 183 global and regional experts from 7th to the 9th November, for three days of interactive discussions and knowledge exchange to enhance cooperation and advance ocean governance in the region and beyond. Read more Marine Regions Forum 2023
The Marine Regions Forum’s engagement with the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region took a leap forward recently, thanks to an invitation from the Nairobi Convention Secretariat to attend a Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) and Information Management Strategy (IMS) capacity development workshop in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
The Marine Regions Forum team together with partners organised two events during the 2022 UN Ocean Conference (UNOC) from 27 June – 1 July 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal. The UNOC, co-hosted by Portugal and Kenya, had as theme “Scaling up ocean action based on science and innovation for the implementation of Goal 14: stocktaking, partnerships and solutions” and aimed to mobilise action to implement sustainable development goal (SDG) 14.
The Marine Regions Forum launched a new Policy Brief during the United Nations Ocean Conference 2022 in Lisbon: Sustainable Blue Recovery: Fostering Resilience for Marine Regions.
Read more NEW POLICY BRIEF LAUNCHED DURING THE UN OCEAN CONFERENCE 2022
The STRONG High Seas project (‘Strengthening Regional Ocean Governance for the High Seas’) concluded on 31 May 2022 after five successful years. Read more Five successful years – The STRONG High Seas team is completing their work
Human influence on the oceans, including areas of the high seas (or areas beyond national jurisdiction – ABNJs), continues to intensify as global shipping and new technologies increase our reach into the ocean’s last “frontiers”. This human domination implies the need to design strategies to protect and sustainably manage the marine biodiversity present both in areas under the jurisdiction of countries and in ABNJs, which are common spaces of humanity and therefore the responsibility of the international community.
Read more STRONG High Seas Expert workshop: Integrated Ocean Management in the Southeast Pacific
The STRONG High Seas project has recently wrapped up its series of interactive virtual capacity development workshops for the Southeast Pacific region in April 2022. Read more STRONG HIGH SEAS CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT SERIES FOR THE SOUTHEAST Pacific REGION
The STRONG High Seas Project has published a series of fact sheets that present complex issues important to understand areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) in a condensed and simple form. Read more New Publications: STRONG High Seas – Fact Sheets
The STRONG High Seas project has published a new report providing initial indications on how the international community can take pragmatic steps to provide a basis for the effective use of area-based management tools (ABMTs) and marine protected areas (MPAs) in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ). Read more New report: Conserving the Global Ocean: Initial Indications for Effective Area-based Management Tools on the High Seas
The STRONG High Seas project has published a new report providing reflections from the research team on the numerous lessons learned during the project duration on participative multi-stakeholder approaches in transdisciplinary ocean governance research, such as designing and implementing effective engagement strategies, designing targeted capacity development programmes, and fostering co-creative research processes for supporting decision-making and achieving policy impact. Read more New Report: Applying a Participative Multi-Stakeholder Approach in Transdisciplinary Ocean Governance Research: Reflections from the STRONG High Seas Project
