14:00 Kuala Lumpur 16:00 Sydney
Regional Dialogue 11. Data for Small-Scale Fisheries: From Invisible Catch to Rapid Payout
Ocean Accounts, Standardised Data, and Social Protection for Coastal Communities
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Global Ocean Accounts Partnership
Advancing ocean accounting worldwide through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and capacity building
About GOAP
The Global Ocean Accounts Partnership is bringing together governments, international organisations, researchers, and practitioners to advance ocean accounting worldwide.
We support countries in developing ocean accounts based on the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) – providing technical guidance, capacity building, and a platform for knowledge exchange.
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Ocean Accounts / datasets created from 2023
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GOAP Fellows
Highlighted content from across the GOAP community
Handbook on Developing National Plastics Data Systems
A practical guide to help governments build national data systems that track plastics throughout the lifecycle and inform evidence-based policy.
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Ocean Accounting Education Series
The GOAP Education Series provides self-paced learning modules on key ocean accounting topics. It provides the knowledge foundation for ocean accounting implementation - for policy makers, researchers, or practitioners.
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Latest Publications
Technical guidance, research, reports and knowledge products from the ocean accounting community
Technical Guidance on Ocean Accounting
The Technical Guidance outlines how to compile, use and maintain ocean accounts. The latest release is now open for global consultation
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Handbook on Developing National Plastics Data Systems
A practical guide to help governments build national data systems that track plastics throughout the lifecycle and inform evidence-based policy.
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An implementation roadmap for Australia's Ocean Accounts
A phased roadmap for Australia to implement national Ocean Accounts, developed through the National Marine Science Committee process to inform the 2026–2035 National Marine Science Strategy.
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Bogor Strategic Action Plan
The Bogor Strategic Action Plan is a practical roadmap for scaling ocean accounts across the Global South, developed by attendees during the South-South Ocean Accounting Exchange in March 2026 in Bogor, Indonesia.
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Social Accounts in the Maldives
The Maldives has begun integrating the social domain into national Ocean Accounts frameworks.
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The Integrated Ocean Carbon Research Report
The Integrated Ocean Carbon Research (IOC-R) Report, developed by 72 authors and 13 reviewers from 23 countries, offers the most comprehensive evaluation to date of the processes driving ocean carbon uptake and storage, and identifies the research priorities required to strengthen global climate planning.
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Latest Events
Recent webinars, workshops, and conferences from the ocean accounting community
14:00 Kuala Lumpur 16:00 Sydney
Regional Dialogue 11. Data for Small-Scale Fisheries: From Invisible Catch to Rapid Payout
Ocean Accounts, Standardised Data, and Social Protection for Coastal Communities
Learn More
Past Event
10:00 to 11.30 AM (Columbo time) | 14.30 (AEST)
Webinar. Ocean Accounting for Sri Lanka's Blue Economy
Measuring to inform research, statistics and policy. The webinar aims to build shared understanding of how ocean accounting measures the blue economy and where it can support national decisions in Sri Lanka.
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Past Event
13:00 Sydney / 15:00 Fiji / 8:30 Sri Lanka
Launch event. Closing the plastics data gap
Launching the Handbook for Developing National Plastics Data Systems and new Global Plastics Data Tracker. Two resources from CSDR, GOAP and Grid-Arendal that support systematic data collection for effective plastic pollution, health policy and evidence-based decision-making.
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Our Focus Areas
Technical Guidance
Developing methodologies and standards for ocean accounting aligned with SEEA
Capacity Building
Training programs and workshops to support countries in implementing ocean accounts
Knowledge Sharing
Fostering collaboration through regional Communities of Practice
Latest Insights
Expert perspectives, newsletters, and news from the ocean accounting community
Protecting a reef takes more than a boundary: Ocean Accounting for Gili Matra
By Hadi Yoga Dewanto and Bella Charlesworth
An ocean accounting pilot at Indonesia's Gili Matra Islands is using governance accounts to inform marine protection that lasts.
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Madagascar: Accounting for Coral Reefs and the Blue Economy
Ocean Accounts Fellows in Madagascar are developing ocean accounts for coastal and coral reef change, and the ecosystem services they provide to local communities.
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Social data for Mozambique's coastal communities
Community-based social data is being collected in Inhambane Bay, Mozambique to feed into a future pilot Social Account, through the work of Ocean Revolution Mozambique and World Resources Institute and support from the UK Government’s Blue Planet Fund.
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Solomon Islands: measuring what matters in a nation that runs on the sea
The Pacific's first internationally standardised maritime accounts put a value on a fleet, a workforce and a lifeline that national statistics had never captured.
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DEPDev Philippines joins the GOAP Membership
By Dr Cheryl Joy Fernandez-Abila
The Philippines' central economic planning department becomes GOAP's newest Member, strengthening the country's commitment to measuring the value of nature and the ocean.
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Indonesian Ocean Accounts Fellows complete research short course
Ten researchers from Indonesia's Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF) completed an eight-week ocean accounting research study visit at UNSW Sydney, hosted by the GOAP Secretariat.
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51 Current GOAP Members
Global members
- UNEP-WCMC IGO
- World Bank IGO
- International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) Research Institute
- HELCOM IGO
- Conservation Strategy Fund – Global NGO
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