Strengthening of the National Hydrographic Office A Project of Technical Co-operation between Sri Lanka and Germany
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The project “Strengthening of the National Hydrographic Office (NHO) of the National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency of Sri Lanka”, was initiated in the period 1984 - 1986 and commenced in 1988 as a project of Technical Co-operation between the Governments of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit, Federal Ministry of Economic Co-operation, Bonn). Implementing Agencies are the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ - German Agency for Technical Co-operation) and the National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency of Sri Lanka (NARA). The objective of the project is to enable the NHO to provide better and more comprehensive hydrographic information to users of these data in Sri Lanka, thus contributing to the overall goal for a better and improved management of aquatic resources of the country's exclusive economic zone. HPC Hamburg Port Consulting GmbH is operating this project by subcontract for the German implementing partner, the GTZ. Since 1988, experts of HPC, with the support of the Fachhochschule Hamburg (Hamburg Polytechnic, Section Hydrography) and the support of the BSH Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie (Federal Agency for Maritime affairs and Hydrography, Hamburg) were - and still are - engaged in Sri Lanka, together with their respective Sri Lankan partners and counterparts to set up and to strengthen the capability of Sri Lanka's Hydrographic Office. The project originally was planned for three phases, with two years duration each. As the project progressed, it was re-designed and finally modified into three phases of different duration, phase I from 1988-1990 (2 years), phase II from1990-1993 (three years), and the final phase III, from October 1993 to September 1996 (3 years). The National Hydrographic Office of Sri Lanka presently forms an integrated section of the National Aquatic Resources Research and Development Agency (NARA) although one of the targets of the project was to establish the NHO as an independent body for Hydrography. However, it was not possible to establish the NHO as an independent body during the period of operation of this joint project. Reasons for this are complex and are not discussed here. Consequently the NHO continues to function as a section of NARA which constitutes a Research Institute for Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development under the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development with limited competence only in the field of Maritime Affairs, Shipping and Hydrography, subjects which are within the competence of the Ministries of Ports and Shipping and Defence (Sri Lanka Navy). At present, phase III of the project is in progress which ends this year (1996).Downloads
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