Guide to Competency

The purpose of this Guide is to provide guidance to Members’ organizations that are developing, implementing and/or maintaining competency-based training and assessment programmes based upon the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) competency frameworks established in the Technical Regulations, Volume I (WMO-No.49). Examples of selected Members’ best practices are included in this guidance material to facilitate transfer of knowledge and experience, and thus enable organizations to achieve compliance with the WMO requirements in the most efficient way. This Guide will also be useful to WMO technical commissions and the expert teams engaged in developing and updating competency requirements (Part II, section 1), to training providers, including Regional Training Centres (RTCs), who will need the competencies to shape their training plans and course designs (Part III, section 3), and to National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) and other Members’ organizations, which will need the competencies to guide their service provision and, in particular, their use in Quality Management Systems (QMSs) (Part I and Part III).