04 Sep Strengthening Hydromet Services, Disaster Preparedness and Urban Resilience in Honduras
Through the Honduras and Nicaragua
hydromet capacity assessment and strengthen project, a
Modernization Plan was proposed for the strengthening of
hydromet services in Honduras. This modernization plan will
require an investment of approximately US 10 million dollars
distributed in: (i) institutional strengthening, (ii)
enhancing observation, analysis and forecasting, and (iii)
enhancing service provision. This project ‘Strengthening
Hydromet Services, Disaster Preparedness and Urban
Resiliency in Honduras’ aims at supporting the Government of
Honduras with the next step of making the modernization plan
implementable. One of the priority activities included in
the Hydromet Services Modernization Plan is the installation
and implementation of the Meteorological, Climatological and
Hydrological Database Management System (MCH), which is a
database management system (DBMS) based on databases and
open source software. This system, developed by Mexico and
adapted by the Cooperation Program for National
Meteorological and Hydrological Services (SMHN) of
Ibero-America, was transferred to WMO in 2011. The goal was
to support the operation of the Meteorological,
Climatological and Hydrological Database Management System (MCH).