Regional Stakeholders Workshop to Implement the WMO Strategy for Service Delivery for NMHSs in South-East Europe

WMO published the WMO Strategy for Service Delivery (WMO-No. 1129) to guide the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) in the development and improvement of their capabilities in serving the user communities including the public. As part of implementing the Strategy, the Public Weather Services (PWS) Programme, which led the preparation of the Strategy, has run a number of in-country training workshop for the staff of NMHSs. In order to introduce the Strategy and its Implementation to a wider number of Members in South East Europe, a Regional Stakeholder’s Workshop is being planned in cooperation with the Regional Office for Europe with selected participants from Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo (UNSCR1244), The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia. The workshop will allow the staff from those NMHSs to conduct a self-assessment and determine the current level of service deliver. They can then decide on the next higher level of service delivery they would like to be at and look at resources required to get there. The end result will be an Action Plan prepared with the help of the experts, who will be part of the WMO team, to guide the development of Service Delivery.