GOAP Secretariat

GOAP Secretariat

GOAP is a global, multistakeholder partnership established to enable countries and other stakeholders to go beyond GDP to effectively measure and manage progress towards ocean sustainable development.

Webinar. Measuring First, Targeting Second – Building Usable Ocean Economy Accounts

10 December 2025, 14:30-15:30 AEST Register here Ocean

Fiji charts a course toward evidence-based plastic waste management

In October, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change in

COP30 event. Climate and Biodiversity Action: Integrated Opportunities for Big Ocean States

Eliza Northrop GOAP Secretariat Director The Global Ocean Accounts Partnership

The Social Data Audit Tool

The GOAP Social Data Audit Tool is designed to help

Social Accounts Working Group

Dr Bernice Serwah Ofosu-Baadu Assistant Chief Statistician Statistics Ghana, Ghana

Valuing The Ocean Economy: Lessons from earlier adopters

The paper compares three Ocean Economy Satellite Account (OESA) pilots (Portugal, Norway, U.S.), extracts methodological lessons, and sets out a protocol that countries can adapt to their own data environments.

Why ocean data must include people

Coastal communities remain largely invisible in ocean policy decisions. A new eight-country analysis reveals that countries have the tools and data to start integrating social data into Ocean Accounts transforming ocean governance into an instrument of equity.

Leveraging national social data for Ocean Accounts

This report outlines a social data audit methodology which can be used as a first step in compiling social data within the ocean accounting framework.

News Vol. 12 | October 2025

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Handbook on Sustainable Ocean Plans: A Practitioners’ Guide

The ‘Handbook on Sustainable Ocean Plans: A Practitioners’ Guide’ provides a practical framework to help countries design and implement Sustainable Ocean Plans (SOPs). SOPs are comprehensive, country-driven frameworks to sustainably manage 100% of the ocean area under national jurisdiction.