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Join the Expert Roster for the UN Ocean Decade


March 23, 2022

Dear Colleagues,
 
The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030 (referred to as ‘the Ocean Decade’) was proclaimed by the 72nd Session of UN General Assembly (UNGA) on the 5th of December 2017 and officially launched January 1, 2021.
 
If you have not yet signed up for the Ocean Decade Global Stakeholder Forum, you can do so here: www.oceandecade.org/sign-up/. Among other services, this interactive platform gives you access to the “Ocean Decade LinkedIn” and allows you track Ocean Decade activities, conversations, and events. 
 
The Decade is being coordinated internationally by a small team (referred to as the Decade Coordination Unit - DCU) within the Secretariat of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESO) in an effort to promote transformational, large-scale change to advance urgent action on moving from the ‘ocean we have’ to the ‘ocean we want’. The DCU is looking for people who are interested in serving on the Expert Panel, to: 1) support strategic ambition setting, 2) assess alignment of Decade Actions with Ambitions, and 3) to help review, report, and manage Decade reports and conference documentation. The Expert Roster is open to anyone via self-nomination, although expertise in co-design, partnership building, and capacity development is desired. Registration from SIDS, LDCs, early career professionals, and women are encouraged. 
 
Specific functions of the Expert Panel include:
  • To review a small number of programmatic submissions from the Calls for Decade Actions and analyze them against the criteria for both categorization as a Decade Program and demonstration of Ocean Decade endorsement criteria (see Annex for criteria)
  • To provide feedback on endorsement for each submission reviewed via an assessment form provided by the DCU/IOC Secretariat.
  • To provide feedback on the review process to the DCU
  • To provide feedback on proposed monitoring and evaluation indicators, particularly those linked to the Decade Challenges
  • To provide ideal targets for each Decade Challenge
  • To write case studies, narratives, and analyses for the State of the Decade reports
  • To scope the foci of Ocean Decade conferences
  • To prepare documentation for the Ocean Decade conferences
 
Please find the full Expert Roster description and Terms of Service here:
 
Registration for the Expert Roster can be found here:
 
Sincerely,
Terry Quinn,
Director of the Ocean Sciences Division, National Science Foundation

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