Open Consultative Platform

WHY?

Open Consultative Platform involves all the stakeholders from the different sectors of the weather, climate, and water enterprise to work together towards a common people-centric and planet-centric vision and to stimulate and fortify the dialogue to create a space for inclusive consultation in a constructive and mutually-beneficial way.

WHAT? 

The Open Consultative Platform (OCP) is a mechanism for addressing collaboratively the grand challenges before the weather enterprise in an open, constructive and participatory way. The platform enables all stakeholders to stay abreast of issues and opportunities, both institutional and technological, to incentivize win-win approaches and nurture innovation. A new cooperation paradigm will incorporate active sharing of responsibilities and interactions with each other to move from isolated actions within a single organization to business processes that are developed and shared across sectoral and organizational boundaries.  

WHO?

To enable the realization of full potential of the weather enterprise that includes the leaders of different sectors at the international, national, and community levels, WMO embraces proactive coordination to streamline a high-level dialogue for public, private and academic collaboration that will facilitate the development of a new generation of weather and climate intelligence to counter global risks.

Open Consultative Platform High-Level Sessions

High-level Regional Forums linked to the OCP

In 2019 WMO Congress endorsed Resolution 79: Open Consultative Platform “PARTNERSHIP AND INNOVATION FOR THE NEXT GENERATION OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE INTELLIGENCE” through which Members agreed that the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) should continue to play a central role in facilitating the dialogue between the sectors. In November 2020, Regional Association III (RA III, South America) decided to consider organizing, in partnership with associations of the private sector, the first Regional Forum on Public-Private Engagement (PPE), linked to the Open Consultative Platform (OCP).

The objective of the High-Level Regional Forum of the OCP in each region is to bring together the Permanent Representatives of every region and high-level representatives of the private and academic sectors to facilitate dialogue among all stakeholders at the regional level and to discuss region-specific issues, opportunities, and initiatives for leveraging cooperation and collaboration between sectors that enhance socioeconomic benefits of weather and climate service. Discussions would include, but are not limited to, identifying common interests; understanding the complementary roles and strengths of actors from the public, private, and academic sectors; exploring opportunities for partnership within every region; and improving all stakeholders’ collective capability in leveraging resources, improving efficiency and sustaining quality services.