WORK PLAN FOR WMO RA II PILOT PROJECT ON PUBLIC-PRIVATE ENGAGEMENT FOR SMART METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES IN MEGA-CITIES (PPE-SMSC)

Introduction

Both the Geneva Declaration 2019 and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Guidelines for Public-private Engagement (PPE) place much emphasis on the actions to facilitate proactive PPE at regional and national levels. The WMO Regional Association II (RA II) Pilot Project on PPE for Smart Meteorological Services in Mega-cities (PPE-SMSC) is co-hosted by China Meteorological Administration (CMA), Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) and Macao Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau (SMG), under the guidance and coordination of PPE Office (PPEO) and Regional Office for Asia and the South-West Pacific (RAP) of WMO Secretariat. The project aims at exploring the PPE model in developing integrated urban meteorological services. The project proposal had been presented and discussed at the sixteenth session of the RA II Management Group (RA II MG-16) and at Seventeenth Session of RA II (RA II-17) (Phase I) and approved as a RA II pilot project (RA II-17-J-PP-1) at the RA II-17 (Phase II). This is the first regional pilot project on PPE among all regions.