Taking forward the Regular Process - Welcome to the Chile Workshop!

1. Taking forward the Regular Process - Welcome to the Chile Workshop!

2. Workshops are a vital element to gather input for the Regular Process – and for dialogue to improve marine assessment at all levels, national, regional and global

3. Aims of the Workshop • Background to the Regular Process • Inventory and evaluation of existing assessments and approaches to gaps in them • Inputs to “Outline of First Global Integrated Marine Assessment” and “Guidance to Authors” • Evaluation of existing assessment capacity and approaches to capacity-building to fill gaps • Start to capacity-building for integrated assessment

4. I. Background • Origins of the Regular Process • Establishment of the Regular Process • Organization now in place • Remaining elements to be put in place

5. Origins of the Regular Process • From the 1992 Earth Summit on, it was clear that the world needs improved coordination of actions at global level of the oceans • Such improved coordination needs an integrated assessment as the start of the policy cycle • The 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development recommended a regular assessment process • The UN General Assembly endorsed a regular process in December 2002

6. From endorsement to start-up • An international workshop in 2004 considered modalities • The UN General Assembly agreed in December 2004 that the output should be, by 2014: • agreed priority cross-cutting thematic issues such as food security • an integrated assessment of the oceans • a baseline for future global assessments • A second international workshop in 2005 considered a start-up phase • The UN General Assembly in 2006 reaffirmed the aims and initiated the Start-Up Phase – the Assessment of Assessments (AoA)

7. From start-up to the first cycle (1) • The AoA Start-Up Phase examined 500+ regional and thematic assessments in 2007 - 2009. • In 2009 the UN General Assembly endorsed • Objective, Scope and Principles of the Regular Process • Production of a First Integrated Assessment by 2014

8. From start-up to the first cycle (2) The UN General Assembly agreed in December 2010 • Ad Hoc Working Group to oversee and guide the Regular Process • DOALOS to be Secretariat • Technical and scientific support from UNEP, IOC, FAO, IMO and other specialist agencies • a Group of Experts of Regular Process (GOERP) • Group of Experts to provide a Set of Options • Re-emphasis of goal of First Global Integrated Marine Assessment by 2014

9. Completing the structure Ad Hoc Working Group considered the Set of Options from GOERP in February 2011 and agreed: • the need for regional workshops • the need for a pool of experts to help GOERP and in June 2011 agreed: • Guidelines for Workshops • Criteria for members of the pool of experts • terms of reference and working methods for GOERP

10. Remaining Structural Elements • Agreement on the Outline of the First Global Integrated Marine Assessment • Designation of the members of the pool of experts • Finalization of the Guidance to Authors • Assignment of tasks of drafting and reviewing

11. II. Existing Assessments and what needs doing • From the start, the Regular Process has been intended to build on existing assessments • What it adds is a global, integrated view • Need to identify and evaluate existing arrangements

12. What should the workshop do about existing assessments? • The AoA report contained a regional summary of assessments for [the South East Pacific Ocean] • This was based on a regional summary template and detailed templates for each assessment identified • What does the workshop think about those evaluations? • What other assessments are there and how does the workshop evaluate them?

13. AoA evaluation of SE Pacific • Laws will soon require environmental monitoring, evaluation and reporting processes, and marine infrastructure and expertise is being strengthened • CPPS offers a robust, simple and proven institutional arrangement for future assessments and monitoring. • Gaps exist in marine conservation, fisheries and aquaculture bio-economics and applying the ecosystem approach to management • GOOS Regional Alliance for the Southeast Pacific (GRASP) and ERFEN (IOC/WMO/CPPS) programmes and the Humboldt Current LME project are good examples for ecosystem monitoring. • Data integration, publication and distribution needs developing. • SPRFMO could act as a central body for high seas data.

14. Gaps and filling them • What are the main issues which are important for the region but which have not been assessed? • Is there information on any of them? If so, how can it best be mobilized? • Where there is no information, what can be done to fill the gap?

15. III. Inputs to “Outline of First Global Integrated Marine Assessment” and “Guidance to Authors” • These will be the main formal guidance to all those involved in preparing the First Global Integrated Marine Assessment. • Comments welcomed from the workshop on these two documents

16. IV – Capacity Building • Output of the first cycle of the Regular Process will be limited because of current lack of monitoring and assessment capacity in many parts of the world • Building capacity is therefore an essential part of the Regular Process, so that each cycle can improve on its predecessor

17. Regional Needs • The Ad Hoc Working Group is still discussing what capacity building should be included in this process • Should it be simply capacity-building for integrated assessment, or should it also include capacity-building for management and policy development? • The Workshop could usefully consider at least the first

18. Capacity building for integrated assessment • All regions of the world need to build their capacities to carry out integrated assessments • We are all learning as we do it • The session on capacity-building for integrated assessment will try to suggest helpful approaches

19. Workshops are a vital element to gather input for the Regular Process – and for dialogue to improve marine assessment at all levels, national, regional and global Let us start now!