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38th session Agenda item 3 GESAMP 38/3/Rev 27 April 2011 ENGLISH ONLY REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY OF GESAMP Activities and Achievements of Sponsoring Organizations of GESAMP since the 37th session INTRODUCTION Executive Committee 1 Since the 37th session of GESAMP, the Executive Committee has not been as active as in recent years, partly due to the current and ongoing personnel changes within the GESAMP Office and the Administrative Secretariat, as well as to the conclusion of Sida’s support for GESAMP on 31 December 2010. The Executive Committee has not met in the intersessional period, but one teleconference was held on 20 May 2010, while occasional e-mail communication took place with individual members of the Executive Committee, including the Chairman of GESAMP. 2 GESAMP 38 will be informed of the outcomes of the next session of ExCom which will be held on Sunday, 8 May 2011. Institutional arrangements for GESAMP Memorandum of Understanding on GESAMP 3 In 2010, work has continued on the current draft of the Memorandum of Understanding on GESAMP, in a format adhering to new UN standards for multi-donor trust funds, and using templates developed by the United Nations Development Group (UNDG). However, being faced with the prospect that some of the Sponsoring Organizations would, for various reasons, not be a position to sign the MoU, work on its further development was stopped. A proposal will be presented to ExCom, prior to this session, for a new approach towards reaching an agreement on a practical footing for GESAMP for the future. GESAMP Office 4 The GESAMP Office, established at IMO as a co-sponsoring arrangement between the current sponsors of GESAMP, has not been staffed since Mr. Andreas Odhage’s secondment from the Swedish Maritime Administration (SMA) expired on 31 December 2010. SMA informed IMO in late December 2010 that with the conclusion of Sida’s support for GESAMP as per 31?December 2010, no new