About AMCOMET
What is AMCOMET?
In response to major challenges related to the delivery of weather and climate services in Africa, the African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET) was initiated as a permanent forum where African ministers convene every two years to discuss policy matters related to the development of meteorology and its applications and its contribution to the socio-economic development in Africa.
The First Conference of Ministers Responsible for Meteorology in Africa took place in April 2010, in Nairobi, Kenya. The Conference established AMCOMET as a high-level policy mechanism and the intergovernmental authority for the development of meteorology and its applications in Africa, through the adoption of the Nairobi Ministerial Declaration.
While meteorology is known first and foremost for its contribution to safe and regular air and sea transport, it does have several other essential functions, it:
- helps farmers to produce more and better,
- helps to combat diseases such as malaria and meningitis, and
- saves many human lives by disseminating early warnings of floods and droughts.
The delivery of tailor-made weather, climate and water services is increasingly needed to ensure food security, improved water management, disaster risk reduction and better health.
This is the rationale for the establishment of AMCOMET as the authority that fosters political will to strengthen National Meteorological and Hydrological Services to enable them to fully perform their roles as a fundamental component of the national development infrastructure and a major contributor to economic and social development.
AMCOMET Actual bureau Members
The Bureau consists of five members: One Chair, Three Vice-Chairs and One Rapporteur. The Conference elects the AMCOMET Bureau to serve for the next biennium. Bureau Members represent the five African sub-regions. These countries serve, or have served, as members of the Bureau:
5th Session (2021-2024)
President: Republic of Cameroon
1st Vice President: Republic of Sudan
2nd Vice President: Republic of Niger
3rd Vice President: Republic of Mozambique
Rapporteur: Republic of Egypt
4th Session (2019-2021)
President: Republic of Egypt
1st Vice President: Tchad
2nd Vice President: Royaume Swatini
3rd Vice President: Ethiopia
Rapporteur: Cabo Verde
3rd Session (2015-2019)
President: Cabo Verde
1st Vice President: Republic of Egypt
2nd Vice President: Republic of Cameroon
3rd Vice President: Sudan
Rapporteur: Zambia
2nd Session (2012-2015)
President: Zimbabwe
1st Vice President: RCA
2nd Vice President: Tunisia
3rd Vice President: Gambia
Rapporteur: Uganda
1st Session (2010-2012)
President: Kenya
1st Vice President: Mali
2nd Vice President: Zimbabwe
3rd Vice President: Congo Brazzaville
Rapporteur: Morocco
Goals
AMCOMET’s key objectives are to promote political cooperation and streamline policies at a pan-African level and advocate for sound decision-making based on robust science. AMCOMET consolidates and builds on previous achievements to further promote the effective use of weather and climate products and services that meet end-user requirements to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Vision
The vision of AMCOMET is to create a framework to promote cooperation, security, socio-economic development, and poverty eradication on a pan-African level through sound governance of the science of meteorology and its related applications.
Mission
The mission of AMCOMET is to provide political leadership, policy direction and advocacy in the provision of weather, water and climate information and services that meet sector specific needs, in areas, such as agriculture, health, and disaster risk reduction.