A brand-new division has actually been developed within the IMO Secretariat to concentrate on sustaining Member States to take on crucial international problems in the context of global delivery– as well as aid advertise lasting growth.
Operational from 1 March 2020, the Department for Partnerships as well as Projects will certainly boost as well as enhance collaborations with outside stakeholders as well as contributor companies to take on several of the significant international difficulties which strike today’s naval globe.
It ends up being the prime focus for creating collaborations as well as working with lasting donor-funded tasks, along with executing IMO’s source mobilization technique to enhance its Integrated Technical Cooperation Programme.
The brand-new division mirrors IMO’s solid as well as proceeding dedication to aiding its Member States attain the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals, as well as apply the Organization’s regulative structure.
It will certainly function as an entrance for collaboration chances with a wide variety of outside companions, consisting of IMO Member States, UN companies, banks, NGOs, IGOs as well as the economic sector. A vital purpose will certainly be to enhance IMO’s existing profile of donor-supported lasting tasks sustaining its technological collaboration goals.
It will certainly advertise a society of cooperation as well as development, producing more comprehensive involvement as well as collaborations with maritime as well as ocean-related stakeholders.
With the brand-new division, the existing Partnerships as well as Resource Mobilization group within IMO’s Technical Cooperation Division as well as the Major Projects group in the Marine Environment Division collaborated under a solitary umbrella. The resultant harmony as well as harmonization is made to make certain that IMO Member States are much better offered.
IMO has a lengthy as well as effective performance history of matching the demands of creating as well as less-developed nations with sources offered by a variety of governmental, institutional as well as business benefactors. Energy effectiveness, environment modification, shielding biodiversity, stopping aquatic air pollution, maritime security as well as protection are simply several of the locations that have actually been covered.
The brand-new division will certainly improve this to aid take on these as well as various other crucial international difficulties, within a maritime context, with cutting-edge collaborations as well as lasting tasks. Decarbonization, aquatic plastic clutter as well as biofouling are amongst the subject locations currently being dealt with by IMO’s significant tasks.
IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim claimed, “For the benefits of sustainable development to be evenly spread, all countries must be able to play a full and active part in maritime activities. Building partnerships is key to this. This new department will help that to happen. It’s very much in line with my vision of a ‘Voyage Together’, where no one is left behind when it comes to the effective implementation of IMO’s global standards.”
The brand-new division will certainly be headed byMr Jose Matheickal, that brings greater than 15 years’ experience of leading as well as working with significant tasks at IMO, sustained by Mr Youngso Kim, that will certainly lead the collaborations operate within the brand-new framework.
Reference: imo.org
