Procedures for Proposing and Evaluating IODE Projects and Activities (Revised edition).

Abstract

At its 24th session (2017) the IODE Committee approved the Report of the Inter-sessional Working Group to Propose a Re-structuring of IODE which recommended revising the current structure, projects and activities of IODE and decided that the relation between projects (e.g. data flow) should be better communicated within the IODE community but also to the user communities. The Committee agreed that both existing and new IODE projects and activities will benefit from a more effective tracking and oversight process to help ensure that they meet IODE strategic goals and objectives. The Committee adopted Decision IODE-XXIV.3 IODE (Project and Activity Performance Evaluation). These procedures apply to both existing and new projects and activities.

This revised edition includes changes requested by IODE-XXV to reduce the number of project forms to New Projects/Activities and Annual Project Report and to include a requirement for a SWOT analysis for all new project proposals.