Overview

WIMA-Asia was established in January 2010 under the guidance of IMO’s gender programme for women in the maritime sector.

WIMA–Asia aims for regional Integration, support, and cooperation of women in national maritime associations for the promotion of greater and active participation on SDGs, including those relating to safety, security, environmental protection and trading throughout Asia.

Strategic framework

1. Advocacy programme in promoting SDGs (women in maritime as stakeholders)

• Create process to meet existing gender quotas in IMO affiliated universities to ensure participation of WIMA-Asia applicants.
• Provide consolidated regional updates to IMO on the activities of national chapters.

2. Capacity-building

• Mentoring programme and career counseling
• Educational exchange program
• Specialized committee establishment to share best practices
• Hosting semi-annual webinars.

3. Partnership development with government, industry, IMO, and other international and regional organizations and civil society

• Scholarship fund for WIMA-Asia through collaboration and partnership with maritime universities and specialized training institutes
• Leveraging knowledge of existing national chapters to share best practices for establishing national chapters.

4. Communications and visibility

• Website containing a data base and directory of WIMA–Asia members and employment/internship opportunities
• Hold WIMA-Asia conferences, rotating between member states
• Creation of WIMA–Asia facebook/social media page
• Highlighting accomplishments of WIMA–Asia members (“woman of the year”/individual profile from each national chapter)

5. Sustainability

• Establish national WIMA chapter in every WIMA-Asia member country
• Creation of WIMA–Asia memorandum of association to establish management and technical committees for the purpose of giving national chapters a voice at IMO