8th Joint IHO/IMO/WMO/IOC/IALA/IAEA/FIG Capacity Building
Meeting
27-28 November 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark
FIG Commission 4 cooperates with other organisations that focus on
hydrography, hydrographic surveying and nautical cartography. A group has
been formed to undertake simple and informal meetings to help coordination
and exchange of information and experience on the Capacity Building.
From left:
Alberto Costa Neves IHO, B. Sıtkı Ustaoğlu IMO,
Xu Tang WMO, Gordon Johnston, FIG Commission 4,
Claudia Delgado IOC, Mustafa Iptes IHO, Stephen Bennett
IALA, Louise Friis-Hansen FIG, Jean-Charles Leclair, IALA and
Thomas Dehling IHO.
10 representatives from the seven organisations met for two days in
Copenhagen, hosted by FIG Commission 4 and FIG Office to discuss and
exchange information about their latest initiatives on capacity building and
development, and to inform about the activities in the organisations.
Several of the organisation organise capacity building programmes around the
world. The group meets once a year and this was the eights meeting.
The organisations represented were: International Hydrographic
Organisation (IHO), International Maritime Organisation (IMO), World
Meteorological Organisation (WMO), Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission (IOC), International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and
Lighthouse Authorities (IALA), International Atomic Energy Agency -
Environment Laboratories (IAEA unfortunatelty not present), and FIG.
The delegates generated the following recommendations from the meeting:
- That capacity building should include strategies to protect the
marine environment through safety of navigation initiatives and or
regulation concerning:
- Environmental risk assessment initiatives
- IALA risk management toolbox
- Hydrographic risk assessment methodologies
- Oceanographic inundation modelling
- Particularly Sensitive Sea Areas (PSSAs)
- The implications of climate change
- The direct link between safety of navigation and protection of
the marine environment
- Incorporation of a wider group of stakeholders who can affect or
be affected by changes to the marine environment
- That information would be shared on the establishment of regional
training hubs and advances in distance/e-learning
- That stakeholders, opinion formers and the wider public be informed
or educated on matters relating to capacity building activities to
improve the safety of navigation and protection of the marine
environment through proactive public relations initiatives. Members
should share examples with other members of the Meeting
- That an information exchange be established between member
organisations of the Joint Capacity Meeting Group including:
- Calendar of activities
- Country maritime profile information
- Joint IHO/IALA/IMO high level visits to common target
States/regional organisations where appropriate
- Capacity Building/Development impact assessments
- Gender and youth programmes
- That these be collated into a draft information paper for input to
IMO TCC-65: Action IALA
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Louise Friis-Hansen
Copenhagen
19 December 2014
19 December 2014
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