OPOC Pacific Ocean Initiatives Dashboard Dashboard
OPOC Dashboard
The Office of the Pacific Ocean Commissioner (OPOC) was established by Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders’ decision in 2010, to ensure necessary high-level representation, attention and coordination to ocean priorities, decisions, and processes at all levels.
More specifically to strengthen ocean governance, collaboration between ocean stakeholders, add value to existing ocean efforts and comprehensively evaluate progress of implementation on the Framework for the Pacific Oceanscape (FPO) and all other ocean-related policies, decisions, and commitments.
In 2014, the PIF Leaders’ Palau Declaration on “The Ocean: Life and Future” mandated the OPOC to set up and maintain a comprehensive register of initiatives and projects across the spectrum of the ocean sectors in the Pacific. Further in 2021, the PIF Leaders’ Ocean Statement re-affirmed the role of OPOC to monitor and report on progress in the implementation of regional Ocean commitments.
The Dashboard is designed as a project tracking tool that will be relevant for monitoring, evaluation, reporting purposes; as well as assessing progress of implementation against the ocean policies, decisions, and global commitments – the FPO and the SDG14 targets.
About the Data and Dashboard
The Pacific Ocean Initiatives Dashboard provides a neutral, comprehensive register of all projects and initiatives associated with all ocean sectors in the Pacific. It analyses details (data) of all ocean initiatives and projects collected, and visually reports/presents them in charts. Below is the data hierarchy and fields that this dashboard outlines and analyses:
- Country
- Title of Project/Initiative
- Financing Agencies
- Implementing Agencies
- Ocean theme
- Focus
- Alignment to FPO Strategic Priority Actions
- Alignment to SDG14 targets
- Status
The accuracy of the products, charts and other services of this dashboard is dependent on the quality of the data and treatment of those data. The integrity of the data is therefore an important component of this dashboard.
The current data has been collected from several sources and has been through a data vetting protocol. Data collection (from OPOC) as well as data inputting (from stakeholders) will be an on-going process to ensure data is up to date and maintains robustness.
The data about the initiatives were first compiled in 2015, immediately after the Leaders commissioned the mandate to OPOC.
All currency values are experessed in $US
Assumptions
The following assumptions have been made for this Dashboard:
1. Pacific Ocean Initiative – a program, project, pledge, commitment, or activity associated with sustainable use, management, and conservation of ocean in the Pacific. Initiatives may be implemented by any individual, stakeholder, in or for the Pacific. If possible, with indication of budget and how they address the ocean priorities of the region (e.g., FPO) and global commitment (e.g., SDG14 target).
2. Regional project – a regional project that doesn’t specify its recipient Pacific Island Countries (in its source) will be assumed to cover all Pacific Island Countries. This implies even distribution of its budget figure to all Pacific Island Countries.
3. Alignment to Ocean theme, FPO & SDG14 – based on each project/initiative’s key objectives and outcomes, they will be assumed to be addressing the most directly matched Ocean theme, FPO Strategic Priority and SDG14 targets.
Acknowledgement of Contributors
The Office of the Pacific Ocean Commissioner takes this opportunity to extend its thanks to all “Contributors” to this Pacific Ocean Initiatives Dashboard.
1. UN DESA Registry of Voluntary Commitments
2. Our Ocean Conference (OOC) Secretariat List of Commitments
3. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
4. University of the South Pacific (USP)
5. Office of the Pacific Ocean Commissioner (OPOC)
6. IUCN Oceania
7. SPC Pacific Data Hub
Your valuable contribution and updating of your projects/initiatives data into this Dashboard has no doubt benefited our Members, Partners and all other Stakeholders in terms of effectively tracking who is doing what, the volume of initiatives, distribution and trends of projects/initiatives invested across the spectrum of ocean sectors.
Release History
| Date of Data update | Contributors |
|---|---|
| November 2021 |
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Description of Ocean Commitments
| SDG | Full Description |
|---|---|
| 14.1 Reduce marine pollution | By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution |
| 14.2 Manage marine and coastal ecosystems | 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 |
| 14.3 Minimise ocean acidification | Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels |
| 14.4 End overfishing and IUU | By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and destructive fishing practises 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 |
| 14.5 Conserve 10% marine areas | 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 |
| 14.6 Prohibit fisheries subsidies | 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 integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation |
| 14.7 Increase economic benefits to SIDS/LDCs | 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.A Increase scientific knowledge & research | 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.B Support small-scale artisanal fishers | Provide access for small-scale artisanal fishers to marine resources and markets |
| 14.C Implement international law - UNCLOS | Enhance the conservation and sustainable use of oceans and their resources by implementing international law as reflected in UNCLOS, 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 |
| FPO | Full Description |
|---|---|
| 1. Jurisdictional Rights and Responsibilities | 1. Jurisdictional Rights and Responsibilities |
| 1A Secure maritime boundaries and rights | 1A - PICS formalise maritime boundaries and secure rights over their resources |
| 1B Preserve maritime zones from CC-related SLR | 1B - Regional effort to fix baselines and maritime boundaries to ensure the impact of Climate change and sea level rise does not result in reduced jurisdiction of PICTs |
| 2. Good Ocean Governance | 2. Good Ocean Governance |
| 2A Strengthen regional ocean governance | 2A - Leaders mandate a strengthening of the regional institutional framework for ocean governance and policy coordination. |
| 2B Foster partnerships for ocean priorities | 2B - Foster partnerships to integrate and implement ocean priorities in the pacific plan and other relevant regional and international instruments |
| 2C Incorporate ocean policies in development planning | 2C - PICTs incorporate sustainable use and development of coastal and ocean policies in national development policy and planning |
| 2D Coordinated mechanism on ocean priorities | 2D - PICTs design and/or consolidate clear coordinated institutional mechanism for integrated ocean and coastal management |
| 3. Sustainable development, management and conservation | 3. Sustainable development, management and conservation |
| 3A Mainstreaming of integrated coastal resource mgt | 3A - PICTs implement integrated coastal resource management arrangements drawing on the strengths and traditions of community, districe, provincial and national levels of government to achieve sustainable island life |
| 3B Marine spatial planning for improved EEZ mgt | 3B - PICTs explore and build on marine spatial planning mechanisms for improved EEZ management to achieve economic development and environmental objectives |
| 3C Regional bodies for high-seas and deep-sea | 3C - Regional intergovernmental bodies explore and build on approaches to conserve and manage high seas resources and deep-sea ecosystems for the common good |
| 4. Listening, learning, liaising and leading | 4. Listening, learning, liaising and leading |
| 4A Utilization of existing knowledge and results | 4A - Facilitate processes that utilize existing knowledge and results in needs driven information acquisition and targeted capacity building for achieving policy and management objectives |
| 4B The Pacific Way for ocean advocacy | 4B - Influence international and regional ocean priorities; decisions and processes through reclaiming the pacific way and establishing a high-level representation on oceans |
| 4C Sharing, Learning and action | 4C - Connecting people and places for sharing, learning and action |
| 5. Sustaining action | 5. Sustaining action |
| 5A Cost-effective approaches | 5A - PICTs to ensure cost-effectiveness of management approaches as a priority step towards sustainability of financing |
| 5B Incorporation of economic benefits | 5B - PICTs incorporate consideration of the economic development benefits of sustainable management of coastal and marine resources in decisions affecting national development |
| 5C Explore financing mechanisms for ocean priorities | 5C - Explore and test financing mechanisms to support implementation of ocean priorities at regional and national level |
| 5D Donor harmonization and aid effectiveness | 5D - Enhance donor harmonization and aid effectiveness to support implementation of ocean priorities at regional and national level |
| 6. Adapting to a rapidly changing environment | 6. Adapting to a rapidly changing environment |
| 6A Centralized mechanism to assess ocean issues | 6A - Identify a centralized mechanism to assess emerging issues, manage risks and explore opportunities |
| 6B Mainstreaming of CC adaptation and mitigation | 6B - Ensure environmental and Climate change adaptation and mitigation are appropriately incorporated into sustainable development, conservation and governance actions |