Deadline: 7-Jan-22
The Lloyd’s Register Foundation and United Nations Global Compact are seeking to commission a partner to identify relevant stakeholders and conduct a user need assessment to inform the development of an Ocean Safety Index; an open source decision making tool to support better decision making for safe and sustainable oceans.
Founded in 2012, Lloyd’s Register Foundation is a UK charity with global reach and the sole shareholder of the Lloyd’s Register Group. With a mission to protect the safety of life and property, and to advance transport and engineering education, the Foundation has an important role to play in meeting the challenges of today and the future.
In order to provide public and private sector stakeholders with data that will encourage them to take informed action on issues affecting ocean safety, they propose the development of an Ocean Safety Index. This will be an open access tool providing regional and sectoral risk scores which draw attention to the most pressing safety challenges at sea. With this information, stakeholders will be better equipped to make impactful decisions on the future of their oceans. They expect the index to also highlight data gaps, supporting the need for new research and data generation while providing preliminary hypotheses – where possible – about risks in the interim.
Objectives
The objectives of an Ocean Safety Index:
- Support decision makers to think in a longer-term, strategic manner and inform governmental, business, and financial intervention
- Encourage greater accountability and recognition of ocean actors through data transparency
- Increase public awareness and engagement so that society becomes increasingly less tolerant of harmful actions in their ocean economy
- Highlight where skills may need building for the future blue workforce (e.g. Sustanable development and natural capital awareness, digital ocean engineer)
Task outline
- The concept of the index has been socialised with a range of stakeholders who are supportive of the initiative. They now need to formally establish the user needs that could be fulfilled by this tool, and are looking to commission a partner for the first stage of the project to explore and evidence whether and how the index is likely to be used by stakeholders, and to what impact.
- They expect a user need assessment to include the following steps:
- Identify the target users of an Ocean Safety Index
- Gather evidence for different user needs and motivations for making use of an index
- Establish the data needed by different users to drive change
- Establish how the proposed index is likely to be used, and potential barriers to use, according to different actors
- Capture the likely impact of an Ocean Safety Index
For more information, visit https://www.lrfoundation.org.uk/en/funding/calls-for-funding/