Governance in SAARC / Indonesia fisheries transparency / Ocean governance projects

Troubled waters (commentary).  "Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka—which together constitute the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)—are… troubled by poor governance."

Som P. Pudasaini, former UNFPA Representative in Sri Lanka and Yemen and Country Director in the Maldives/My Republica: http://www.myrepublica.com/news/21412/

Indonesia makes its fishing fleet visible to the world through Global Fishing Watch.  The Republic of Indonesia becomes the first nation ever to publish Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) data revealing the location and activity of its commercial fishing fleet.

phys.org: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-indonesia-fishing-fleet-visible-world.html

New Capacity-Building Projects for Ocean Governance. On June 7 (New York time), at an official function of the United Nations Ocean Conference, The Nippon Foundation announced the launch of new human resource capacity-building projects on ocean governance with the United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (UN DOALOS).

Business Wire: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170607006491/en/Capacity-Building-Projects-Ocean-Governance-Nippon-Foundation-DOALOS