REGIONAL ASSOCIATION V (South-West Pacific)
Management GROUP
EIGHTH SESSION / Submitted by: / SecretariatDate: / 1.VII.2012
Agenda item: / 7
Geneva, 28 June 2012 / English only
Item 7 Plan for regional Events
BUDGETED REGIONAL EVENTS
DURING THE FIFTEENTH FINANCIAL PERIOD (2008-2011)
YearsRegional Events / 2008 / 2009 / 2010 / 2011
Fifteenth Session of the Association / 30.IV-6.V.2010
Bali, Indonesia
Meeting of the Management Group / 23.VI.2008
Geneva / 24.IV.2009
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
5 and 12.VI.2009
Geneva / 10.VI.2010
Geneva
20-22.IX.2010
Indonesia / 20.V.2011
Geneva
Session of WG on WWW / 30.XI-4.XII2009
Honolulu, USA
Session of WG on Climate Matters / 8-11.II.2010
Nadi, Fiji
Session of WG on Hydrology / 14-18.XII.2009
Bandung, Indonesia
Session of the Tropical Cyclone Committee for the South Pacific and the South-East Indian Ocean / 11-17.VII.2008 Alofi, Niue / 26-29.IV.2010
Bali, Indonesia
Fifth Technical Conference on Management of Meteorological and Hydrological Services / 20-24.IV.2009
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Regional Seminar on Alternative Services and Delivery and NMHSs Administration / 1-4.XI. 2011
Solomon Islands
Plan for
Regional Events
during the sixteenth financial period (2012-2015)
YearsRegional Events / 2012 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015
Sixteenth Session of the Association / X
Meeting of the Management Group / 28.VI.2012
Geneva / X
Tropical Cyclone Committee for the South Pacific and the South-East Indian Ocean / 16-20.VII.2012 Apia, Samoa / X
Working Group on Hydrological Services
Working Group on Climate Services
Working Group on Weather Services
Working Group on Infrastructure
Sixth Technical Conference on Management of Meteorological and Hydrological Services / X
Regional Seminar / X
Budget Allocation approved by Cg-XVI (ref. WMO Operating Plan 2012-2015)
• Regional Association V session 2014 CHF 159,772
• RA V Regional Seminar 2015 CHF 29,872
• RA V Technical Conference 2013 CHF 92,132
• RA V Management Group Meeting 2014 CHF 24,964
• Tropical Cyclone Committee 2012 CHF 13,819
2014 CHF 13,481
• Working Group sessions 2012 CHF 16,377
2013 -
2014 CHF 15,977
2015 CHF 15,932
• Assistance to President of RA V 2012-2015 CHF 16,166
• Regional Workshop for South-West Pacific 2012 CHF 20,472
• Regional Workshop for SIDS 2012 CHF 20,472
Proposals on the regional events
PR of Cook Islands
Considering that the Cost Recovery Working Group is a small group, we could look for an opportune time in the near future to get together and decide on the fate of Cost Recovery in RA V. I presume that a small amount of funds ought to be allocated for a meeting in the very near future and to catch up with the other Working Groups.
Lead of WG on Weather Services
1. Support for in-country internal audits of countries implementing a quality management system to be conducted by Members with a mature certified QMS. This is the highest priority as the implementation deadline is November 2012.
2. a) Combined meeting of Task Teams on Training & Competencies, Quality Management & Cost Recovery to further develop workplan and implementation strategies.
b) Seminar/workshop (in conjunction with the Task Team meeting) on qualifications and competency assessment, implementation of quality management systems and mechanisms for cost recovery.
Lead of WG on Infrastructure
1. Highest priority - face to face meeting of the core Working Group to review, manage and plan ahead the overall work activities of the group. As we discussed recently, a meeting in Melbourne for a week in about Mar/Apr 2013 would be ideal from a number of perspectives:
* many members live in Melbourne so will not be required to travel
* With only 3 core members needing to travel to Melb it is desirable to also invite 4 of the volunteer experts in order to maximise the opportunity for input by Member countries and to tackle details on a couple of specific tasks (WIS implementation and communications)
* the timing allows the Secretariat to tackle a very busy 2012 without additional burden
* the timing may be optimised to the end of the wet season, depending on the requirements of participants
2. Workshop on WIGOS implementation in RA V
I believe discussions are underway about a possible side meeting at CBS in Jakarta later in 2012. This would be an extremely valuable opportunity to make progress on this topic with the benefit of bothRA-V participants and a broad range of WIGOS experts and Secretariataccessible to us. I would prefer to see this achieved without significant imposition on the RA-V budget, as I wouldn't like to see it prevent the WG-I from meeting to cover its other task areas.
3. WIS Regional workshop
We are currently exploring opportunities for AusAID funding for a Regional WIS workshop, which wouldprovide acritical step forward in tackling the newer aspects of WIS implementation (in association with Melb GISC becoming operational). If this is not successful we might want to look more broadly for funding opportunities. We could also use the opportunity to help the progress of TDCF migration.
Lead of WG on Climate Services
1. We propose to conduct the first SEACOF (South East Climate Outlook Forum) meeting in 2013:
- By inviting 10 ASEAN Countries (2 participants/country, total 20 participants) plus 2 WMO staff and 2 expert from WMO RA II.
- The host country will be offered to all ASEAN Countries
- If possible, the budget will be borne by WMO (hosting, international airfare, accommodation and per diem)
2. Facilitation of a RA V RClimDex training workshop including a report/peer-reviewed journal paper on RA V climate indices analyses, with focus on Indonesia, Malay Peninsula and close by Pacific islands PNG, East Timor and northern Australia.
3. WG CLS meeting (Lead, theme leader and experts) before Sixteenth Session of the Association in 2014 to monitoring and evaluation the activities/deliverables.