Benefits for:
- NMHSs: to increase their prominence and visibility towards government in view of incentivizing increase in their budgets
- Government: to have an evidence-based decision-making support regarding budget allocation, related national policies and regional agreements
The results of the WMO Hydrology Survey 2020 highlighted that NMHSs have insufficient budget allocations and difficulties to attract government funding. In order to incentivize governments to invest in NMHSs operations, cost-benefit assessments of hydromet services are an effective tool to support evidence-based decision-making. To ensure that the findings of these assessments are presented to the relevant government officials in a comprehensible way, the WMO HydroHub organizes Ministerial Roundtables with government officials responsible for budget allocations.
