Financial assistance to the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO 5 million NOK (38% of the contribution) to the General Account of the Multi-Donor Special Account for the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) to support to capacity development activities of IOC in priority programmatic areas of science, services and ocean management applications, with particular focus on:
-	IOC tsunami ready community recognition program in Small Island Developing States and;
-	Capacity Development in Ocean Best Practices Pilot in the Caribbean with the goal of adopting and adapting best practices to regions of limited infrastructure to suit their capabilities and regional context, while maintaining, as much as possible, the interoperability across regions and countries using similar methods.

8 million NOK (62% of the contribution) to the sub-account dedicated to the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (the Decade) 2021-2030 to support:
-	Ocean professionals in Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States by developing skills required to co-design and co-deliver ocean science in the context of the Decade and catalyze their involvement in the development of new Decade Actions, and their engagement in regional and national and coordination, structures based on agreed regional and national priorities.
-	Initial activities to conceptualize a new Ocean Decade programme to follow up the main recommendation from the High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy to sustainably manage 100% of the ocean area under national jurisdiction, guided by Sustainable Ocean Plans, by 2025.
-	Support the Decade Coordination Unit through hiring of science officer. (This solution was decided upon after being unsuccessful in attracting candidates at IMR for a secondment at IOC Decade Coordination Unit in Paris- There were no interested researchers at IMR, we tried for almost 2 years).