Decade Coordination Office for the Western Pacific

Hosted within the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific and supported by Thailand, the WESTPAC Decade Coordination Office will coordinate Decade Actions across all Ocean Decade Challenges in the Western Pacific region and its adjacent areas. 

It will assure the creation of synergies and links between existing Decade Actions, catalyse new Decade Actions, and coordinate monitoring and evaluation of Decade progress in the region. The DCO will ensure close interactions with the Decade Collaborative Centre for the Pacific Islands Region of the Pacific Ocean (DCC-PIR-PO) hosted in the Pacific Community Centre for Ocean Science (PCCOS) to avoid overlap and maximize the Decade benefits to SIDS in the South Pacific region. 

Lead Contact: iocwestpac@unesco.org