Programme

 

Programme

 

Session I: Perspective of GFCS priority Areas: Agriculture, Water, Health and DRR Sector data for improving climate services and the Application Requirements for climate observations and monitoring

  • Global perspectives  the Agriculture and Food (FAO)
  • Regional and Local Perspective  (AGRHYMET)
  • Global, Regional and Local Perspective of  Health (WHO)
  • Red Cross Perspective in the Regions -  (West Africa) 
  • Global Perspective of the Disaster Risk Reduction  (ISDR)
  • Lessons learned from regional and local DRR experiences and implications on new requirement for observations and monitoring (Pakistan)
  • Global Perspective of  Water Issues (UN-Water)
  • Lessons learned from Regional and Local experience on new requirements for observations and monitoring ( WMO / CHY )

Session II: Climate Observations and Monitoring System improvement for supporting climate services

  • Perspective on improving Climate System Monitoring to support Climate Service Information System,
  • Perspective on the observational needs and major gaps in the observing systems
  • Perspective of Space Observation and monitoring capabilities and challenges to meet the needs of the GFCS priorities,
  • Historical climate data in supporting climate services for the Priority Sectors

Session III:  The way forward

  • Suggestions for improving  the Implementation Plan - Focus on key priority areas  
  • Summary of meeting