Angola - Modernization Project of INAMET

CONTEXT OF THE PROJECT

In 2011, with the support of its supervisory ministry (MTTI, Ministério das Telecomunicações e Tecnologia de Informação), the Angolan National Meteorological Service INAMET published a 7-year Strategic Plan for Development ("Plano de Desenvolvimento Estrategico" - PDE).

This PDE was approved by the Council of Ministers during summer 2013. Shortly after, MFI and INAMET signed a Memorandum of Understanding paving the way for an ambitious modernization project that would allow INAMET to reach the objectives mentioned in the PDE. End of 2014, France and Angola settled a strategic partnership to reinforce the collaboration between the two countries. This partnership included a list of development projects amongst which INAMET's modernization project appeared.

Finally, the contract between INAMET and MFI was signed in July 2017, and validated by presidential decree in April 2018. It opened the way for the realization of a first phase of the project that is expected to last for 3 years.

MFI's MISSION

MFI intervenes as a turnkey project integrator and will carry out the following achievements:

- Strengthening of the national observation network with the installation of 52 automatic weather stations (synoptic, meso-scale and hydrologic), 8 AWOS (Aviation Weather Observation System), 3 upper-air stations, 1 radar and a regional lightning detection network.

- Implementation, at INAMET's headquarters, of an integrated information system matching all the needs of a modern national meteorological service in terms of telecommunications, data collection and processing, forecasting, warning and climate services.

- Development of four application projects in the following fields: agriculture, hydrology, oil exploitation and seismology.

- Full set of transversal services such as change management, system integration, specialized training of INAMET's staff, technical support over an 18-month period.