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CRIMARIO II - Critical Maritime Routes in the Indian Ocean
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Ongoing
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Financing amount (Euro)
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€17.5m
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Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, Guam, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nauru, Niue, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Oman, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, French Polynesia, United Kingdom, Samoa, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Yemen, Federated States of Micronesia, Cook Islands, Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands, Africa, The Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Middle East
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EU CRIMARIO aims to strengthen maritime safety and security in the Indo Pacific enhancing maritime domain awareness through information sharing, capacity building and training.
Interconnecting the Indo Pacific through information sharing
The European Union’s maritime capacity building initiative CRIMARIO I, established between 2015 and 2019, contributed to enhancing maritime domain awareness (MDA) through information sharing, capacity building and training, in the Western Indian Ocean.
This was achieved through the development of the IORIS platform, a maritime coordination and communications tool for the region, combined to extensive training programmes on maritime data processing.
To find out more, read CRIMARIO I project-sheet
Since CRIMARIO I was a success, the EU decided to extend the project’s geographical reach with the ambition of inter-connecting the Indo-Pacific through CRIMARIO II (2020-2025), also by implementing law enforcement capacity building activities.
This action supports the EU’s recently promulgated strategy for cooperation in the Indo- Pacific in which the EU underlines its contribution to global maritime security, promoting an open and rules-based regional maritime architecture, from Africa, over Asia to the Pacific.
CRIMARIO II pursues two main objectives:
1. Enhancing information exchange and analysis, and crisis and incident management.
2. Strengthening inter-agency cooperation in maritime surveillance, policing, investigation and judicial matters.
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CRIMARIO’s Initiatives
To meet its objectives, CRIMARIO offers the regional partners several initiatives, which include:
• IORIS: a neutral and secure web portal for information sharing and incident management, which enhances interagency collaboration and regional cooperation. Its functionalities integrate messaging chat and alerts; advanced mapping, vessel intercept, markers; file exchange, forms and document archiving and the provision of satellite AIS data.
• SHARE.IT : an interoperability framework, established in partnership with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Indo-Pacific information fusion centres, to develop maritime situational awareness. A community of stakeholders is set up with the ambition of developing a common technological solution, in order to be able to link existing information-exchange systems together in a digital and secure way.
• The organisation and participation in maritime exercises with the objective of enhancing interagency collaboration and regional cooperation. The IORIS platform is often used as the main communication tool during the exercises in conjunction with other tools.
• Tailor-made training packages designed to meet the specific needs of different countries. These trainings address law enforcement including operational maritime law, evidence and forensics compilation as well as maritime safety, especially in search and rescue, and in tackling marine oil pollution.
For more information on CRIMARIO: crimario.eu
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Sustainable Development Goals
SDG8 - Decent work and economic growth
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
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Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
SDG14 - Life below water
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
SDG16 - Peace, justice and strong institutions
Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
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