HydroSOS in RA I
Background
The Regional Association for Africa (RA I) tasked its Hydrology & Water Coordination Panel (RA I HWCP) to develop a HydroSOS Regional Implementation Plan for RA I.
As a result, the HydroSOS RA I Implementation Plan was drafted and endorsed at the World Meteorological Congress 19 (Cg-19) in June 2023.
Activites
National implementations
Ghana
- A National HydroSOS Stakeholders Workshop was held (report available here) - October 2022
- Ghana's NMS and NHS staff participated in training at UKCEH to develop hydrological status and outlooks - March 2023
Nigeria
- A National HydroSOS Stakeholders Workshop was held (report available here) - October 2022
Regional implementations
Lake Victoria Basin:
- Stakeholders and Technical Workshop - November 2022
- 2nd Technical Workshop - August 2023
"Water at the Heart of Climate Action" (W@HCA) Project:
- Consultation workshops with NMHSs of Ethiopia, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, and Uganda have been held in June 2024.
- This project includes a component on HydroSOS. More information about the project is available here.
In the pipeline
Lake Chad Basin:
- WMO is working, together with the Global Water Partnership Central Africa (GWP-CAf), Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC), and the basin's NMHSs to develop a project under the Adaptation Fund. More information is available here.