Implementing and Monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals in the Caribbean: The Role of the Ocean

Priority Stakeholder/User Groupings Considered for Matchmaking Rounds

Group 1: Decision Makers. Moderator: Emily Smail

Stakeholder activities to be considered include:

• Planning and environment departments
• Coastal resilience planning
• Permitting
• Ministries of finance/budget
• Parliamentarians
• Marine Protected Area creation and Management
• Donor funding agencies

Group 2: Information Providers. Moderator: Chris Corbin

Stakeholder activities to be considered include:

• National/Regional Weather Services
• Intergovernmental organizations (CARICOM, UN Agencies, etc.)
• Statistical Offices
• Research institutions/academia
• CLO (Community Liaison officers)
• National/Regional Human Rights Institutions
• Media/Public Relations/Communications
• Environmental/Conservation NGOs
• Regional Conservation Groups
• International Conservation Groups

Group 3: Monitoring, Regulation and Enforcement. Moderator: Doug Wilson

Stakeholder activities to be considered include:

• Maritime and port authorities
• National offices of disaster services
• Search and rescue
• Oil spill response
• Natural disasters
• Regional/subregional coordination/management bodies
• Marine Protected Area creation and Management

Priority Stakeholder/User Groupings Not Considered

Educational institutions:

• Curriculum development committees
• Research institutions/academia

Industry:

• Oil and gas
• Maritime transport
• Aquaculture/mariculture
• Hotel associations/tourism boards
• Marine and coastal construction consultants
• Sustainable Agriculture

Local Resource Users:

• Resource users
• Local fisheries organizations
• Local communities
• Local NGOs