IHO Director's Report and Outreach Updates

IHO Secretariat's report highlights the status of IHO membership, recent outreach activities like World Hydrography Day celebrations, and updates on international cooperation in hydrography. The Capacity Building Programme's progress and plans for empowering women in hydrography are also discussed. The IHO Secretariat is working on infrastructure improvements to enhance the IHO GIS and the IHO CIS.

• IHO Director
• Outreach
• Hydrography
• Capacity Building
• Infrastructure

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1. Agenda Item 4 IHO Secretariat Report VTC, 9 VTC, 9 10 June 2021 10 June 2021 By IHO Director CBSC19 CBSC19-04B VTC, 9 10 June, 2021

2. Status of IHO Membership Status of IHO Membership LEBANON: 94TH IHO Member State 4 Member States suspended: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Serbia, Syria and Vanuatu CBSC19 VTC, 9 10 June, 2021

3. IHO Outreach IHO Outreach World Hydrography Day (WHD): One hundred years of international cooperation in hydrography Substantial increase in online communication, including social media IHO Centenary Celebrations (IHO-100) CBSC19 VTC, 9 10 June, 2021

4. IHO Outreach IHO Outreach IHO Prestige Book Commemorative Stamp IHO CL s 01-16-21/2021 on WHD/IHO-100 21 June 2021 Hybrid Celebrations Peak-of-the-Peak Day programme: - Event on the IHO terrace (speeches on the IHO Centenary) - Italian Navy Tall-Ship Amerigo Vespucci - Surveys and AUVs exhibition in Monaco s waters CBSC19 VTC, 9 10 June, 2021

5. IHO Outreach IHO Outreach International Hydrographic Review (IHR): Capt (ret) Brian Connon (USA) as new IHR Editor Ideal opportunity for RHC and MS to publicise technical and other achievements in the Regions A new IHR Website, will be fully operational by 2021 (the launch of the website is scheduled by the Peak-of-the-Peak day) CBSC19 VTC, 9 10 June, 2021

6. Capacity Building Programme Capacity Building Programme Probably most of the 2021 CBWP will need to be moved to the 2022CBWP A Project Team has been established to draft a revised Capacity Building Strategy (CBS) Empowering Women in Hydrography (EWH) Project: CL 20/2021: CANADA-IHO Agreement Project work-plan for the period 2021-2024 Member States to consider (A-2 Decision 36) to take part in the Project CBSC19 VTC, 9 10 June, 2021

7. IHO Secretariat Infrastructure IHO Secretariat Infrastructure Work in progress to improve the IHO GIS and the IHO CIS, with the kind contribution from the RoK and from Japan The service provider of the cb.iho.int server is experiencing some connectivity problems, which will be fixed soon CBSC19 VTC, 9 10 June, 2021

8. Action Requested of CBSC Action Requested of CBSC Note this report Take any actions as considered appropriate CBSC19 VTC, 9 10 June, 2021

9. Thank you for the attention! IHOhydro IHOhydro International Hydrographic Organization CBSC19 VTC, 9 10 June, 2021