HT Strengthening Hydro-Met Services

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The development objective of the Strengthening Hydro-Meteorological Services Project for Haiti is to strengthen the Republic of Haiti’s institutional capacity to provide hydro-meteorological and climate information services customized to the needs of the civil protection and agriculture sectors, which contributes to increasing disaster and climate resilience. The project comprises of three components. The first component, institutional strengthening of the hydro-meteorological services and development of data management tools will focus on the integration of the existing hydromet data collection networks into one national data platform based on an open data approach and accessible across end users in the Government of Haiti (GoH) and beyond. The second component, identify hydro-meteorological and climate services’ requirements for select end users and developing information services to support decision making will focus on the definition of hydromet information requirements for end users. The third component, support to project implementation, monitoring and evaluation (M and E), and pilot program for climate resilience (PPCR) knowledge management will include two sub-components: (i) strengthening ministry of agriculture, natural resources, and rural development (MARNDR) capacity to comply with Bank fiduciary, safeguard, and M and E procedures and ensure effective and timely implementation of project activities; and (ii) supporting MARNDR M and E capacity and PPCR knowledge management.