Community of Practice:
Ocean Accounts Framework
Valuing our Oceans
Mignon Voges
This project aims to assess the applicability of the Global Oceans Accounting Partnership (GOAP) developed ocean-accounts framework (OAF) in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) as a central component of a wider strategy to ensure that ocean governance contributes as optimally as possible to the broader sustainable goal of Southern African and IORA member States of the WIO to ensure the inclusivity, safety, security and sustainability of coastal communities.
Derek Zimmerman
The community of practice is led by Professor Patrick Vrancken (of Nelson Mandela University) as the principal investigator. To address the major knowledge gaps arising from the introduction and development of the OAF, the community of practice has been divided into eight work packages. Each package focuses on various aspects within the Framework that include scientists across several research disciplines and from institutes including Nelson Mandela University, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, SAEON, University of the Western Cape and the Human Sciences Research Council.
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Several aspects of this project have been identified as key to the development of the OAF in South Africa. These include the integration of data (standardisation) across disciplines, the sustainability of ocean governance, inclusivity, providing a deeper understanding of the existing environmental accounts and developing novel accounts applicable to South Africa that can be applied to similar countries.
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