Ocean Management and Marine Protected Areas provide a refuge from pressures on the marine ecosystem by reducing human impact. Effective ocean management benefits the health of coastal and marine ecosystems, thereby improving the sustainability of the resources they supply to humans. Marine Protected Areas can support marine life and allow local communities to thrive, providing the necessary services we rely on. Oceanogami is involved in efficient ocean management and the establishment of Marine Protected Areas from proposal writing through the final implementation, taking into account social, cultural, and environmental values.

Oceanogami also provides training for effective ocean management in leadership skills for conservation science. Each training is designed and adapted to the needs of the customer. We coach teams in collaboration, communication, and leadership skills needed to manage and protect the marine environment effectively. Our current offerings cover a wide array of marine environmental topics at different levels, from general knowledge to postgraduate level.

• Stakeholder engagement. Identification of key stakeholders and design of a stakeholder engagement strategy appropriate for your Marine Managed Areas designation process, from a one-off bilateral consultation to ongoing collaborative multisectoral management.
• Monitoring and evaluation. Scientific support for species and ecosystem monitoring and impact assessment by delivering scientific training and tailored talks about marine biodiversity, ecology and related conservation issues.
• Planning. From site selection to the development of management, implementation, and monitoring plans.
• Implementation. Drawing from real-world experience to identify the strengths and weaknesses of existing management approaches in order to improve them and make them workable in practice.
• Managers and enforcers. Training and capacity building to improve technical skills (e.g. marine ecology, spatial data analysis, decision support tools, impact assessment & monitoring methods…) and management skills (e.g. stakeholder engagement, process design, strategic management, governance analysis…).
• Communication and outreach. Development of communication strategies, personal communication styles and key messages to communicate to different audiences. We can develop communication materials (including audio-visual materials and infographics) to help you promote or communicate about your Marine Managed Area via different channels, including social media.
• Facilitation and Conflict resolution skills. If carefully planned and well managed, collaboration helps to minimize conflicts and solve problems in marine resource management. We can help you develop the process planning, facilitation, and conflict management skills in order to design and implement effective collaborative processes.
• Problem solving. Increase teams’ effectiveness at problem solving by applying a systems approach to reveal assumptions, identify root causes of problems, and think strategically to develop targeted solutions.
• Personal leadership development. Support for individual team members to identify and build on their personal leadership skills.