Building Partnerships to Assist Developing Countries to Reduce the Transfer of Harmful Aquatic Organisms in Ships' Ballast Water (GloBallast Partnerships)

The overall objective of GloBallast Partnerships is to promote the development of regional partnerships that will implement coordinated long-term measures to minimize the adverse impacts of aquatic invasive species transferred through ships’ ballast water on coastal and marine ecosystems, economy, human health and well-being in accordance with the relevant IMO international Convention. Related to this, two development objectives have been identified as follows: ·To promote regional partnerships, based on existing regional structures and programmes, for the effective implementation of the International Convention for the Control and Management of ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments, building on the experience and through the expertise accumulated in the six Pilot Countries. ·To integrate regional ballast water programmes with other marine and coastal environmental management strategies. The objectives of GloBallast Partnerships should be a logical expansion of the pilot phase, with a greater regional focus and more emphasis on integrated management. The project is designed to build on the regional approach established during the pilot phase and is based on the principle of integrated implementation.

Documents & Resources

report GloBallast Monograph Series No.18-Guidelines for Development of a National Ballast Water Management Strategy GloBallast Monograph Series No.17-Guidelines for National Ballast Water Status Assessment GloBallast Monograph Series No.21-Identifying and Managing Risks from Organisms Carried in Ships’ Ballast Water GloBallast Monograph Series No.19- Economic Assessment for Ballast Water Management: A Guideline Guidelines for the control and management of ships' ballast water to minimise transfer of harmful pathogens(Chinese) Guidelines for the control and management of ships' ballast water to minimise transfer of harmful pathogens(portuguese) Guidelines for the control and management of ships' ballast water to minimise transfer of harmful pathogens(Russian) Guidelines for the control and management of ships' ballast water to minimise transfer of harmful pathogens(Arabic) Guidelines for the control and management of ships' ballast water to minimise transfer of harmful pathogens(Spanish) Guidelines for the control and management of ships' ballast water to minimise transfer of harmful pathogens(French) Guidelines for the control and management of ships' ballast water to minimise transfer of harmful pathogens(English) Ballast Water Treatment R&D Directory for 2002 Ballast Water Treatment R&D Directory for 2004 GloBallast Legislative Review 1st International Ballast Water Treatment R&D Symposium Ballast Water Risk Assessment Port of Khark Island Islamic Republic of Iran Phytoplankton Identification Catalogue Saldanha Bay, South Africa Ballast Water Risk Assessment Port of Odessa Ukraine Ballast Water Risk Assessment Port of Dalian People’s Republic of China Ballast Water Risk Assessment Port of Saldanha Bay Republic of South Africa Ballast Water Risk Assessment Port of Sepetiba Federal Republic of Brazil 2nd International Ballast Water Treatment R&D Symposium newsletter Guidelines for Development of a National Ballast Water Management Strategy Stopping the ballast water stowaways Brochure ballastwater_nationalguidelines project-document PDF Status Report Project Document for Globallast partnership GloBallast Partnerships - Project Concept Paper Globallast ProDoc final experience-notes Experience Note: Global Industry Alliance: Partnerships for Change workshop 1st East Asia Regional Workshop on Ballast Water Control and Management 1st International Ballast Water Treatment Standards Workshop 1st International Workshop on Guidelines and Standards for Ballast Water Sampling Global Project Task Force (GPTF) Fifth Meeting Report Global Project Task Force (GPTF) Fourth Meeting Report Global Project Task Force (GPTF) Third Meeting Report Global Project Task Force (GPTF) Second Meeting Report 1st Black Sea Conference Report on Ballast Water Control and Management Global Project Task Force (GPTF) First Meeting Report Baltic Regional Workshop on Ballast Water Management GPTF 1 mid-term-evaluation GloBallast Project Independent Mid Term Evaluation (MTE) GloBallast Partnerships Project Mid-Term Evaluation (MTE) results-notes 2013 Results Note - Global Ballast Water Management Programme (GloBallast Partnerships) presentation Climate Change: A Challenge for IMO Too! File Establishing equivalency in the performance testing and compliance monitoring of emerging alternative Ballast Water Management Systems Link GloBallast e-learning course on Operations Aspects of Ballast Water Management image GloBallast_PBBS_2009 GloBallast_GEF-IWC-5_Cairns GloBallast_Singapore MOU-GloBal TestNet Videos Climate Change: A Challenge for IMO Too!