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Guidance for Authors

Guidance for Authors. Creating the Assessment team. Types of input from authors Selection of authors for these inputs Sequence of inputs by authors Guidance to authors. Team of Volunteers: types of input.

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Guidance for Authors

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  1. Guidance for Authors

  2. Creating the Assessment team • Types of input from authors • Selection of authors for these inputs • Sequence of inputs by authors • Guidance to authors

  3. Team of Volunteers: types of input • The Group of Experts of the Regular Process (GOERP)has been set up as “an integral part of the Regular Process” • The Pool of Experts is being created to “support the work of” GOERP • Peer Reviewers may either be members of the pool of experts who have not worked on the chapter in question, or may be people not previously involved

  4. Proposed role of GOERP To organize necessary inputs and develop the first integrated assessment. GOERP will therefore: • Allocate the lead on each chapter to one of its members • Propose, for approval by Bureau/AHWGW the assignment of tasks to members of the pool of experts • Organize production of working papers and review results • Organize production of draft chapters • Review results and produce draft First Integrated Assessment Report • Propose, for approval by the Bureau/AHWGW, arrangements for peer-review • Agree final text of First Integrated Assessment Report and present to AHWGW

  5. Appointment of other contributors 1. Criteria for nomination of members of the pool of experts have been recommended to the UN General Assembly for approval 2. Nomination of experts by States, through the UN General Assembly regional groups 3. Assignment of tasks by GOERP, subject to the approval of the Bureau/AHWGW

  6. Working Papers • Purpose: to provide considered statements on issues identified in the Assessment Outline • some existing assessments may serve • some may synthesize at global level existing assessments and regional working papers • Prepared by: Lead Drafter(s) • teams drawn from the GOERP and the pool of experts, under the leadership/responsibility of a member of GOERP • Reviewed by: panels of Consultors drawn from the pool of experts • Revised by: Lead Drafter(s) in the light of comments • GOERP reviews and acts to fill gaps or resolve contradictions

  7. Draft Chapters Process similar to that for Working Papers: • Purpose: to provide concise, clear and coherent components for the First Integrated Assessment Report • Prepared by: Lead Drafter(s) • Reviewed by: panels of Consultors drawn from the pool of experts • Revised by: Lead Drafter(s) in the light of comments • GOERP reviews and acts to fill gaps or resolve contradictions

  8. From Drafts to Report • GOERP consolidates draft chapters into the draft First Integrated Assessment Report • Peer Review • by experts from States and intergovernmental organizations • peer reviewers, to be proposed by the GOERP and approved by Bureau/AHWGW • GOERP agrees the final text of the First Global Integrated Marine Assessment, in the light of peer-review comments

  9. Guidance The Guidance for Authors will cover: • Status of authors • Access to information used • DPSIR • Level of detail (as between the global and regional levels) • Characterizing and communicating uncertainty • Treatment of risk • Handling divergent views • Ethics in authoring and evaluating Other issues yet to be covered: • Integration • Style Sheet

  10. Conclusions GOERP considers that: • The “Set of Options” offers a workable way to involve experts from around the world in developing the First Integrated Assessment Report • The two-stage approach (Working Papers (or existing assessments) and Draft Chapters) allows for necessary detail to be assembled, while ensuring that the final Report will be clear and concise • The proposed guidance will help ensure a consistent approach in line with the best practice identified by the Assessment of Assessments

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