The Regional IMSAS Auditors Course

The IMSAS Regional Auditor Training Course is designed to enhance the auditing capacity of Member States with the aim of improving the global and uniform implementation of the relevant IMO instruments.

The course will enable participants to contribute more effectively to the preparation of IMSAS audits, as well as assist their maritime administrations in preparing for IMSAS audits by conducting internal audits. This learning process is crucial to determine the extent to which their maritime administration implements the applicable IMO instruments.

IMO’s Technical Cooperation Programme addresses the maritime needs of developing countries by focusing on three priorities that, together, can ensure sustainable maritime development, efficient and safe maritime transport services, as well as effective environmental protection.

IMO adopts international regulations on maritime transport, but it is the responsibility of governments to implement these regulations. The IMO has developed an integrated technical cooperation programme (ITCP) that is designed to help governments that lack the technical knowledge and resources to operate safely and efficiently in the maritime transport industry.

The ITCP promotes the development of human and institutional resources in the maritime sector, on a sustainable basis, including the advancement of women; promotion of regional collaboration and technical cooperation among developing countries; coordination of other development aid programmes in the maritime field in order to maximize the benefits of combined efforts and resources.

The international maritime transport is inherently indispensable for economic growth and sustainable development and therefore, indirectly plays a role in all the Sustainable Development Goals. At its sixty-seventh session, the Technical Cooperation Committee endorsed the links between the IMO's technical assistance work and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals.

IMO's Technical Cooperation Program addresses the maritime needs of developing countries by focusing on three priorities that, together, can ensure sustainable maritime development, efficient and safe maritime transport services, as well as effective environmental protection.

  IMO adopts international regulations on maritime transport, but it is the responsibility efficiently in the maritime transport industry.of governments to implement these regulations. The IMO has developed an integrated technical cooperation program (ITCP) that is designed to help governments that lack the technical knowledge and resources to operate safely and and efficiently in the maritime transport industry.

The ITCP promotes the development of human and institutional resources in the maritime sector, on a sustainable basis, including the advancement of women; promotion of regional collaboration and technical cooperation among developing countries; coordination of other development aid programs in the maritime field in order to maximize the benefits of combined efforts and resources.

The international maritime transport is inherently indispensable for economic growth and sustainable development and therefore, indirectly plays a role in all the Sustainable Development Goals. At its sixty-seventh session, the Technical Cooperation Committee endorsed the links between the IMO's technical assistance work and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

A committee circular showing these links was subsequently circulated. While it was noted that all SDGs have some connection to IMO's mandate, those considered to be particularly directly relevant to IMO's technical assistance work are:

- guaranteeing inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all;

- achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls;

- ensuring the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all;

- ensuring everyone's access to energy at affordable prices, in a safe, sustainable and modern way;

- building resistant infrastructures, promoting sustainable industrialization and encouraging innovation;

- the adoption of urgent measures to combat climate change and its impact;

- conservation and sustainable use of oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development; and

- strengthening the means of implementation and revitalizing the global partnership for sustainable development.