Project information
- STRONG High Seas Project Flyer [English]
- STRONG High Seas Project Flyer [Spanish]
- STRONG High Seas Project Flyer [French]
- STRONG High Seas Project Presentation [English]
Project reports
- Regional Ocean Governance of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: Lessons Learnt and Ways Forward (02/2019)
Policy briefs
- Policy brief – Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: Options for Underpinning a Strong BBNJ Agreement through Regional and Sectoral Governance (08/2018)
- Policy brief – Keeping an Eye on the High Seas: Strengthening Monitoring, Control, and Surveillance Through a New Marine Biodiversity Treaty (08/2019)
- Policy Brief – Towards Ecosystem-based Management of the Global Ocean: Strengthening Regional Cooperation through a New Agreement for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biodiversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (12/2019)
Workshop summaries
2018
- STRONG High Seas Dialogue Workshop 1: Opportunities for Strengthening Ocean Governance in the Southeast Pacific (06/2018, Cali)
- Workshop Summary [English] Workshop Agenda [English]
- Resumen del taller [Spanish] Agenda del Taller [Spanish]
- Presentations
- STRONG High Seas Dialogue Workshop 1: Opportunities for Strengthening Ocean Governance in the Southeast Atlantic (06/2018, Abidjan)
- Workshop Summary [English] Workshop Agenda [English]
- Résumé de l’atelier [French] Programme de l’atelier [French]
- Presentations
- STRONG High Seas Expert Workshop: Technological tools for Monitoring Control and Surveillance in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (07/2018, Paris)
- Workshop Summary [English]
- STRONG High Seas High-Level Expert Meeting: Building a Strong High Seas Treaty: What is the Role for Regional Ocean Governance? (09/2018, New York)
- Workshop Summary [English]
- STRONG High Seas Capacity Building Workshop: BBNJ Capacity Building Workshop for UN Negotiations 1 (09/2018, New York)
2019
- STRONG High Seas Expert Workshop: Baseline Revision and Ecological Analysis (02/2019, Guayaquil)
- STRONG High Seas Expert Workshop: Strengthening Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) through an international instrument on high seas biodiversity (02/2019, Paris)
- Workshop Summary [English]
- STRONG High Seas Dialogue Workshop 2: Science for Solutions: Bringing Stakeholders Together to Improve Ocean Planning and Governance in ABNJ of the Southeast Pacific (03/2019, Guayaquil)
- Workshop Summary [English] Workshop Agenda [English]
- Resumen del taller [Spanish] Agenda del Taller [Spanish]
- Presentations
- STRONG High Seas High-Level Expert Meeting: Towards an Effective High Seas Treaty: Building on and Strengthening Regional Ocean Governance (03/2019, New York)
- Workshop Summary [English]
- STRONG High Seas Dialogue Workshop 2: Science for Solutions: Bringing Stakeholders Together to Improve Ocean Planning and Governance of ABNJ in the Southeast Atlantic and Western Indian Ocean (06/2019, Cape Town)
- Workshop Summary [English] Workshop Agenda [English]
- Résumé de l’atelier [French] Programme de l’atelier [French]
- Presentations
- STRONG High Seas Capacity Building Workshop: Marine Genetic Resources and Area-based Management Tools (08/2019, New York)
- Workshop Summary [English]
- Presentations
- STRONG High Seas Expert Workshop: Socioeconomic Analysis in ABNJ (10/2019, Baranquilla)
- STRONG High Seas Capacity Building Workshop: Marine Biological Diversity in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) in the Southeast Atlantic region (11/2019, Cape Town)
- Workshop Summary [English]
- Presentations
- STRONG High Seas Expert Workshop: Strengthening Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) through an international instrument on high seas biodiversity (11/2019, Guayaquil)
- Workshop Summary [English]
2020
- STRONG High Seas Dialogue Workshop 3: Enhancing the Knowledge Base for Cross-Sectoral Management and Ocean Governance in ABNJ of the Southeast Pacific (02/2020, Lima)
- Workshop Summary [English]
- Resumen del taller [Spanish]
- Workshop Agenda [English]
- Agenda del Taller [Spanish]
- Presentations
Online Seminars
- STRONG High Seas Online Seminar – Marine Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction in the Southeast Pacific and Southeast Atlantic (08/2018)
- Agenda [English]
- STRONG High Seas Online Seminar – Marine Genetic Resources: Building Capacities for Ocean Governance (11/2019)
- Agenda [English]
Featuring STRONG High Seas
- Internationale Klimaschutzinitiative (IKI) / International Climate Initiative: STRONG High Seas Project Website
- Conservation | mag: Article by Lewis Kihumba on Earth’s High Seas: A Frontier in Need of Governance
- Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative (GOBI): Newsletter Summer 2020, page 21
- Deep-Sea Life Newsletter Issue 14 available at Deep-Sea Biology Society (DSBS): Article by Lewis Kihumba, Ben Boteler, Carole Durussel on Taking Stock of STRONG High Seas Project two years on (online) / Taking Stock of STRONG High Seas Project two years on (pdf, pp. 17-18)
- Deep-Sea Life Newsletter Issue 13 (pp. 21-22) available at Deep-Sea Biology Society (DSBS) and Indeep Project: Dialogue Workshop Report: Science for Solutions: Bringing Stakeholders Together to Improve Ocean Planning and Governance for Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction in the South East Atlantic and Western Indian Ocean
- South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization (SPRFMO): Note on the publication of the Dialogue Workshop Summary (for Summary click here)
- International Ocean Institute (IOI): Workshop report on the STRONG High Seas Capacity Development Workshop held by IOI – African Region in collaboration with BirdLife International
- Liberian Observer: Article by Lewis Kihumba on “African States are Critical in Advancing Ocean Governance” also available at Modern Ghana, the Patriotic Vanguard and Media Guinee (French)
