1. 30/10 to 01/11/2017 - Bridgetown - Barbados
WMO SYMET XIII
30/10 to 01/11/ Bridgetown - Barbados
Meeting the education and training needs
of Francophone countries
Didier Reboux
Ecole nationale de la météorologie

2. 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

3. 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
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4. Education and training needs
Needs to be addressed
+ presence to young people (primary and secondary schools) to develop vocations for meteorology and climate
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5. 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
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6. Present answer in RA1 Francophone countries
Training offer
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7. Present answer in RA1 Francophone countries
Training accessibility
due to distance, funding, prerequisites problems, shortage or
availability of agents, local technical difficulties…
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8. 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
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9. 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
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10. Let’s see the progress made at SYMET XIV
How to improve
Let’s see the progress made at SYMET XIV ? or
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11. Thank you !