1. Co-President Meteorology Report INF. 2.1(1)
Johan Stander
Co-President
JCOMM-5, October 2017, Geneva

2. High Level Successes May 2012 (JCOMM-4)
Achieved WMO and IOC Strategies
First Ever ‘Woman in Leadership’ Workshop (JCOMM-5)
Successful Marine TECO
CIMO TECO
IMO/IHO
JCOMMOPS
RMIC
CMOS
WMO Marine Services Assessment report

3. High Level Successes
CIFDP gaining much attention: we need to take stock and review how to move forward on this with CHy
Building bridges between WMO and IOC community
Capacity development
ICG-WIGOS
TT-MOWIS advancing to an Expert Team
Sustainable development goals 4(3) – providing experts and inputs to these

4. High level Main Challenges
Resources - especially Secretariat
Emerging needs and requests from Members/Member States
Gender representation
We have mandatory work to do
Competencies and cost recovery

6. Way Forward Long Term Vision
Looking at future – support for OCG and Services Programme chairs - address the need of the Met- Ocean community
We should Self-reform and define the key functions
What is intergovernmental and what not – maybe some high level strategic KPI and the rest at programme level
We should articulate what defines us as JCOMM
Marine dialogue at congress - proposed

7. Observation Programme Area
VOS–SOT–SOOPIP-DBCP-GLOSS- ARGO PROGRAM-
OCEANSITES - IOCCP – GO-SHIP – JCOMMOPS
Data Management Programme Area
Expert Teams: DMP – MC – MOIS
Services and Forecasting Services Programme Area
Committee for WWMIWS
Expert Teams: DRR, SI, OOFS, MEER
Cross-cutting
CD, Task Team Weather, Climate and Fisheries, Satellite requirements

8. I THANK YOU