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This article explores the process and essential steps of capacity development for National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs), with a focus on the strategy for sustainable development. It explains the importance of a coordinated approach and identifies the roles of NMHSs in facilitating sustainable development. The article also highlights the different levels of climate services and the areas of competencies in capacity building. It concludes with a proposed process for capacity development and suggests conducting a SWOT analysis to assess WMO's assistance to NMHSs.
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WMO Strategy for Capacity Development : Why? Establish a CD Strategy to ensure, in a holistic approach, all actors in Met/Hydro/Climate work towards the same overall objective : • Facilitating sustainable development of NMHS
WMO Strategy for Capacity Development : Why? Resolution Cg-XVI/B/WP 11.2 • Congress noted that a coordinated and cohesive approach for capacity development would be needed to enhance capabilities of NMHSs in developing countries to meet growing Societal Needs at different levels. • Congress noted that capacity building is a crosscutting activity and contributes to all Expected Results (ER), especially ER 6 and Strategic Thrust 3 of the 2012-2015 Strategic Plan.
Definitions and Logic of WMO strategic planning approach WMO Strategic Plan WMO OP 2012-2015
StrategicThrust n3 ExpectedResult n6
Roles of National Meteorological Services • NMHSs own and operate most of the infrastructure that is needed for providing the weather, climate, water and related environmental services, including observing systems, data management, prediction, communications and data exchange, etc. • GFCS will contribute to the further development of this capability by working with the NMHSs.
Levels of services categories NMHSs to provide 4 different climate services levels Basic Essential Full Advanced
4 areas of competencies in Capacity Building (as articulated by HLT-GFCS) • Human resourcecapacity • equipping individuals with the understanding, skills, information, knowledge and training to enable them to generate, communicate and use decision-relevant climate information; • Infrastructuralcapacity • enabling access to the resources that are needed to generate, archive and use climate data and decision-relevant information, including observing networks, data management systems, computer hardware and software, internet, manuals and scientific literature; • Proceduralcapacity • defining, implementing and advancing best practices for generating and using climate information; • Institutionalcapacity • elaborating management structures, processes and procedures that enable effective climate services, not only within organizations but also in managing relationships between the different organizations and sectors (public, private and community, including international collaboration).
Areas to be considered by CDSRecommendations from Resolution Cg-XVI/B/WP 11.2
Now.. Questions? Assuming this is a good representation of the process needed to build the capacities of NMHSs, careful analysis at each step could lead to the development of an appropriate strategy for development?
What’s next? This process could be used to prepare a Strategy for the development of NMHS Capacity: • a SWOT could be done at each step for example to determine areas needed to complete the process.
We want your assistance…. But, • We propose to use this process to assessWMO in its ability to help NMHSs develop their capacity…. - What we do well we need to do better….
SWOT on WMO assistance to NMHSAssistance to build….. • Human resourcecapacity • equipping individuals with the understanding, skills, information, knowledge and training to enable them to generate, communicate and use decision-relevant meteorological, hydrological and climate information; • Infrastructuralcapacity • enabling access to the resources that are needed to generate, archive and use data and decision-relevant information, including observing networks, data management systems, computer hardware and software, internet, manuals and scientific literature; • Proceduralcapacity • defining, implementing and advancing best practices for generating and using meteorological, hydrological and climate information; • Institutionalcapacity • elaborating management structures, processes and procedures that enable effective meteorological, hydrological and climate information, not only within organizations but also in managing relationships between the different organizations and sectors (public, private and community, including international collaboration).
Areas to be considered by CDSRecommendations from Resolution Cg-XVI/B/WP 11.2