7 June 2021 - Towards Building Ocean Science Capacity: the IOC Capacity Development Strategy, Recent Actions and Updates
In the lead up to the 31st Session of the IOC Assembly, a series of thematic webinars to update Member States on progress achieved since 2019 across its programmes and projects were organized between 31 May and 11 June. These webinars give IOC Member States, Observers and the larger ocean science and management community an opportunity to gather detailed information on IOC's programmatic activities first-hand from members of the IOC Secretariat and external speakers.
The webinar on 'Towards Building Ocean Science Capacity: the IOC Capacity Development Strategy, Recent Actions and Updates' provided updates on relevant actions to assist Member States with developing and sustaining the necessary capacity to undertake activities necessary to achieve the IOC vision at the national level as well as at the international cooperation level. IOC Chair and GE-CD Co-Chair Ariel Troisi opened the session with a quick overview of the timeline outlining the work of GE-CD and highlighted major updates. The webinar featured presentations from Johanna Diwa on the outcomes of CD needs assessment survey, Claudia Delgado on Ocean Teacher Global Academy as a CD tool, and Luis Pinheiro on related work undertaken by the Groups of Experts - Task Team on potential revision of the IOC CD Strategy. The discussion that followed was moderated by the GE-CD Co-Chair Alan Evans.
Copies of the presentations available HERE.
Watch webinar recording in English, French, Russian or Spanish.