30/10 to 01/11/2017 - Bridgetown - Barbados WMO SYMET XIII 30/10 to 01/11/2017 - Bridgetown - Barbados Meeting the education and training needs of Francophone countries Didier Reboux Ecole nationale de la météorologie

Education and training needs Meeting the education and training needs of Francophone countries Education and training needs Present answer in RA1 Francophone countries How to improve

Education and training needs The main objective Providing society (authorities, people, industry…) with the needed climatic and meteorological information 1rst step: allow national and regional met and climate services to function efficiently That means (in terms of training) Technical skills Management skills Support skills (technical and administrative) That also means Recruitment of motivated people WMO SYMET XIII - 03

Education and training needs Needs to be addressed + presence to young people (primary and secondary schools) to develop vocations for meteorology and climate WMO SYMET XIII - 04

Present answer in RA1 Francophone countries IHFR EAMAC + AGRHYMET EHTP ESPA Training centers in met/climat 3 RTCs IHFR in Oran (Algérie) EAMAC + AGRHYMET in Nyamey (Niger) ESPA in Antananarivo (Madagascar) + EHTP in Casablanca (Morocco) + National universities + support Met Training center in Canada and ENM in France WMO SYMET XIII - 05

Present answer in RA1 Francophone countries Training offer WMO SYMET XIII - 06

Present answer in RA1 Francophone countries Training accessibility due to distance, funding, prerequisites problems, shortage or availability of agents, local technical difficulties… WMO SYMET XIII - 07

How to improve Working together to exchange good practices to capitalize experiences to the rationalize training offer in avoiding unneeded redundancies in knowing well each other in being complementary as often as possible in providing support as possible a step towards optimisation of resources mobilisation a better adapted training offer WMO SYMET XIII - 08

How to improve Concretely (under instruction) Signature of an agreement between the 7 training centres Creation of an incentive framework Identification of contacts Setting up mechanisms for exchanges Common work on shared projects Development of an on-line BIP-M training in French Development of a training for Managers WMO SYMET XIII - 09

Let’s see the progress made at SYMET XIV How to improve Let’s see the progress made at SYMET XIV ? or WMO SYMET XIII - 010

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