The Global Ocean Accounts Partnership responds to the urgent need to interlink different types of data, statistics and other evidence concerning oceans, and embed use of this connected evidence in laws, policies and development planning. The Partnership is a coordination and communication structure for diverse member institutions, who have a common interest to ensure that the values and benefits of oceans are recognized and accounted for in decision-making about social and economic development. The Partnership will achieve this objective by developing a shared technical framework for ocean accounting, coupled with collaborative capacity-building activities that support the development, maintenance, and ongoing use in decision-making, of holistic ocean accounts that link together social, environmental and economic statistics.