Join the network without losing what makes your organisation yours.
Partner with IMWIRSA as part of an international network of organisations working in seafarer welfare. Your organisation keeps its full independence — name, management, funding and traditions remain yours. IMWIRSA helps expand your international visibility, exchange of experience, and opportunities for practical cooperation.
A local representative who helps IMWIRSA check and keep up to date the information about a specific port. The coordinator works to IMWIRSA's shared methodology and liaises with IMWIRSA Central Office.
Checks local information and passes updates through the IMWIRSA MWApp Bot — changes go live after verification by IMWIRSA Central Office.
Liaises with IMWIRSA Central Office and, where useful, takes part in exchanging information and experience with other coordinators.
The form of engagement is shaped around the coordinator's role, the scope of local work, and the nature of the cooperation with IMWIRSA.
A coordinator's contribution may be recognised with an IMWIRSA certificate, a reference, or a feature of their work in the organisation's communications.
For certain ports, IMWIRSA may engage coordinators on a paid basis — depending on the scope and nature of the local work required.
The opportunity to take part in growing the coordinator network, exchanging practical experience, and improving the methodology for verifying port information.
Everything a centre needs to evaluate and start the partnership — no account required to look.
Overview of the model, what your centre keeps, and what it gains.
A one-page brief you can hand to the staff member or volunteer taking on the role.
This is the form the MWApp Port Coordinator uses to check and keep port information current, ready for verification by IMWIRSA Central Office and for updating the Port Card in MWApp. Opens directly, no account needed.
Tell us briefly about your organisation and the area of cooperation you're interested in.
We identify shared interests and the right format for working together.
We confirm contacts, the information needed, and practical areas of cooperation.
Your organisation joins the agreed IMWIRSA project or area of work.