Coordination for impact

Regional Development Partner Coordination Mechanisms

Programmes and projects play a crucial role in advancing the global climate action agenda by addressing country needs and ensuring reliable hydrometeorological information. With numerous development partners committed to supporting weather, water and climate services, coordination challenges persist, leading to duplication of efforts and inefficient resource allocation. To address this, the Alliance is supporting the WMO effort to establish regional coordination mechanisms among development partners, aligned with the EW4All financial tracking. These provide a platform for the systematic and sustained exchange of project and programme information in order to: enhance collaboration among partners; provide a forum for donors to align their resources and collaborate on ways to improve approaches and harmonize interventions at national and regional levels; and help align development partner objectives with identified WMO Member priorities and needs, to ensure ownership of interventions.

The World Meteorological Organization provides the Secretariat function for the Alliance which facilitates communication, knowledge sharing, and manages the registry of Alliance members.

Address the gap in middle-income countries

Despite facing significant climate-related risks, middle-income countries often struggle to prioritize investment in their hydrometeorological services and have very limited access to concessional financing. This occurs despite the fact that addressing capacity gaps in hydrometeorological services in these countries requires relatively modest investments and straightforward solutions in a stable and fairly robust context. As such, middle-income countries represent low-hanging fruits in terms of their potential for sustainable improvement. Recognizing the importance of this issue, the Alliance commits to scaling up initiatives aimed at strengthening hydrometeorological services in middle-income countries.