A team from the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Marine Environment Division has won the best Portfolio Solution Award in the 8th International Waters Conference (IWC8) for its Glo-X partnerships model.
The event, which was organised by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in Negombo, Sri Lanka, 9-13 May, recognised the project with the award for its efforts in scaling-up investments aimed at addressing global environmental issues facing international waters. The theme of IWC8 was scaling up GEF IW investments from source to sea in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through access to water and sanitation and sustainable use of oceans, seas and marine resources.
IMO’s team won on the “Glo-X” partnerships model that was presented, embracing two separate projects – GloBallast and GloMEEP. Glo-X is being used to accelerate legal, policy and institutional reforms in developing countries to implement the Ballast Water Management Convention and MARPOL Annex VI. The project is also being used to leverage private sector partnerships to accelerate R&D and technological innovations through forming global industry alliances and facilitating information exchange.
IMO’s entry was selected from a large number of submissions made by GEF international water projects. The award was based on oral presentations from the final eight nominees.
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