From 28 July to 6 August 2025, the Group of Experts for the third cycle of the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including socioeconomic aspects, are convening at the World Maritime University in Malmö, Sweden hosted by WMU - Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute team to finalize draft 2 of the third World Ocean Assessment.
Activities relating to capacity-building
Capacity-building is one of the core objectives of the Regular Process. The programme of work for the second cycle of the Regular Process foresees a number of activities to facilitate needs-based capacity-building, including the compilation and maintenance of a capacity-building inventory on the Regular Process web-portal; developing, delivering and following up on regional workshops; developing partnerships and fundraising for the Regular Process voluntary trust fund and for the special scholarship fund (including implementation of the special scholarship). Capacity-building is also to be achieved through the development and maintenance of a virtual community of practice, publications and substantive Regular Process web-portal content, as well as through the holding of a multi-stakeholder dialogue and capacity-building partnership event.