Weather forecast technology :

KOICA provides assistance

The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the Disaster Management Ministry held project commencement meetings from March 6 to 17 at the Meteorological Department. It was intended to work out details of the Project for "Development of Communications, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite (COMS) Data Receiving/Analysis System in Sri Lanka.

Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) and Samsung SDS and their Sri Lankan counterparts participated.

The Korean Government established the East Asia Climate Partnership program at the G8 summit in July 2008 to help developing countries respond to climate change through ODA projects. KOICA, in charge of implementing Korea Government's grant aid and technical cooperation, is implementing projects aiming at building developing countries' capacity to address climate change. Under the program, this two million dollar project was launched from March, 2011 to build capacity of Sri Lankan Meteorological officials and engineers through provision of Digitalized Climate Satellite data Receiving/Analysis System, dispatch of Korean meteorological experts and training of Sri Lankan personnel by KOICA and KMA over a two-year period.

This project will contribute to upgrading Sri Lankan capability of weather forecasting and mitigating loss of life caused by climate change-related natural disasters and strengthen partnership and cooperation in the area of meteorology between the two countries.