Pacific Ocean Alliance
Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)
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Description
All partners will contribute resources including in-kind support and assistance, information and data, as well as financial support. Development partners will be encouraged to engage with the POA when exploring options for developing Ocean related programmes in the region to ensure strengthened coordination and informed decisions when allocating resources, and designing and programming activities. Countries will be a part of the POA and will be able to draw from its pool of expertise and information to support their own country level initiatives or to assist with their engagement in regional and international related interests.
The pool of capacity provided by the many partners in the POA can be drawn from by members to support their individual or collective needs. Sharing of experiences and replication of best practice will be encouraged as well as transfer of appropriate technology.
Support to the Pacific Ocean Commissioner has already been established within the PIFS. The Pacific Ocean Alliance will constitute a network of stakeholders who will coordinate, cooperate and collaborate using innovative and cost-effective means, with a meeting of the Alliance called biennially or bi-decadally. Secretariat support to this arrangement could also be provided through the PIFS. This could be underpinned by the Council of Regional Organizations in the Pacific (CROP) Marine Sector Working Group at the outset and revisions to this arrangement could be made by a steering committee of partners.Existing successful coordination mechanisms in the region will be considered as models for the governance arrangements of the POA. Some examples of such regional partnerships include the Pacific Climate Change Round Table and Nature Conservancy Round Table where the objectives of the Partnership are set out in a terms of reference and reviewed by a Steering Committee as necessary. This is complemented by thematic working groups and or specific issue task force arrangements established under the partnership focused on key areas of activity and led by agencies/stakeholders mandated across those areas.
SDGS & Targets
Goal 14
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
14.1
By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution
14.1.1
(a) Index of coastal eutrophication; and (b) plastic debris density
14.2
By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration in order to achieve healthy and productive oceans
14.2.1
Number of countries using ecosystem-based approaches to managing marine areas
14.3
Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels
14.3.1
14.4
By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, in order to restore fish stocks in the shortest time feasible, at least to levels that can produce maximum sustainable yield as determined by their biological characteristics
14.4.1
14.5
By 2020, conserve at least 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas, consistent with national and international law and based on the best available scientific information
14.5.1
14.6
By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and overfishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognizing that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation
14.6.1
Degree of implementation of international instruments aiming to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
14.7
By 2030, increase the economic benefits to Small Island developing States and least developed countries from the sustainable use of marine resources, including through sustainable management of fisheries, aquaculture and tourism
14.7.1
Sustainable fisheries as a proportion of GDP in small island developing States, least developed countries and all countries
14.a
Increase scientific knowledge, develop research capacity and transfer marine technology, taking into account the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of Marine Technology, in order to improve ocean health and to enhance the contribution of marine biodiversity to the development of developing countries, in particular small island developing States and least developed countries
14.a.1
14.b
Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets
14.b.1
Degree of application of a legal/regulatory/policy/institutional framework which recognizes and protects access rights for small‐scale fisheries
14.c
Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which provides the legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources, as recalled in paragraph 158 of "The future we want"
14.c.1
Number of countries making progress in ratifying, accepting and implementing through legal, policy and institutional frameworks, ocean-related instruments that implement international law, as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, for the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans and their resources
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- Asia and Pacific
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Mr Ryan Medrana, Natural Resources Adviser