IMO names coordinators for its seven regional offices
Move brings technical support closer to member states across 11 thematic areas
The International Maritime Organization has named the full team of regional coordinators to lead its seven regional presence offices, part of a push to bring technical support closer to member states. The offices cover the Caribbean, East Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, the Pacific, Anglophone West and Central Africa, and Francophone West and Central Africa.
The network is designed to align assistance more closely with regional needs, including tailored help for least developed countries and small island developing states that often lack the resources to implement global maritime rules on their own.
The appointments form part of a wider overhaul of the IMO's technical cooperation work. The coordinators will oversee activity across 11 thematic areas, from maritime safety, security and the marine environment to climate action, trade facilitation, law and governance, gender equality, and education and training.
They will also support compliance under the IMO member state audit scheme, reinforcing efforts to ensure countries apply and enforce the conventions they have signed up to.
