International Waters learning Exchange & Resource Network

Regional Training on Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) for Latin America and the Caribbean

18-19 February 2025
The first regional training on Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) will take place on 18-19 February 2025 in Panama City.

The training is co-organized by IW:LEARN, MSPglobal and PROCARIBE+ teams within the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (UNESCO-IOC) and its Sub Commission IOCARIBE, in collaboration with other two GEF-funded Large Marine Ecosystems (LME) projects in the region (Sustainable Pacific, and BE-CLME+), and regional partners: 

  • Ministry of Environment of Panama (Host Country)
  • United Nations Office for Project Services - UNOPS 
  • Caribbean Environment Programme - UNEP-CEP 
  • Permanent Commission for the South Pacific - CPPS 
  • Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States - OECS 
  • Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism - CRFM 
  • Caribbean Biodiversity Fund - CBF 
  • World Wide Fund for Nature – WWF

The training will combine MSP concepts using the MSP Challenge Game by UNESCO-IOC/MSPglobal and selected exercises from Blue Planning in Practice with the support of IW:LEARN partners, GRID Arendal. 

All participants of the training are invited to complete the MSPglobal online training course on the Ocean Teacher Global Academy (OTGA) before the in-person training. The estimated time to complete the self-paced course is approximately 20 hours. Available in both English and Spanish.

Participation is by invitation only.

For more information, please contact: pcu@iwlearn.org