Picture: Botanical Garden of Hamma in Algiers, Oguz Dikbakan / Shutterstock
In Algeria, the National Meteorological Office is one of the key actors in the fight against climate change. Through Twinning, France and Finland supported capacity building to produce and manage weather and climate-related data and information, develop new products and services in order to increase the office’s revenue, and to create a competence-based human resources management system.
Project outputs included:
- An action plan to extend the automation of the meteorological production chain setup;
- An update of the marketing and sales strategy and action plan;
- A gap analysis of the existing regulatory framework with regard to European and international standards, along with suggestions for improvement.
In addition, Twinning strengthened national coordination of actions related to the prevention and addressing natural disasters. The project was building upon the Algerian Government's Action Plan for 2015–2019 and the strategic objectives of the Algerian National Meteorological Office.
“We are an active Twinning player, and this project offers a great opportunity to play a part in developing the operating conditions of our sister organisation. The themes of the project belong to our core competences and we hope that the cooperation with Algeria will continue also after the project has been completed,” says Harri Pietarila, Junior Project Manager of the Twinning project, from the Finnish Meteorological Institute.
Project title: Appui au renforcement des capacités de l’Office National de la Météorologie (ONM)
Project ID: DZ 17 ENI OT 02 19, 2020-2022