By Benjamin Nii Nai Anyetei
Government is set to lay before Cabinet and Parliament a bill aimed at revitalising the Ghana Meteorological Agency (GMet), as Ghana intensifies efforts to modernise climate services and strengthen early warning systems.
The disclosure was made by the Deputy Minister for Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations, Hon. Mohammed Adam Sukparu (MP), when a high-level delegation from the Denmark Meteorological Institute (DMI) paid a courtesy call on the Ministry in Accra. He said consultations on the bill have been completed, clearing the way for its formal consideration by Cabinet and the legislature.
Hon. Sukparu reaffirmed the government’s commitment to strengthening GMet, describing meteorological services as critical to national planning, climate resilience, and food security, especially for agrarian communities. He acknowledged persistent challenges confronting the Agency, including outdated equipment, limited IT infrastructure, and constrained data processing capacity, and assured the delegation of the Ministry’s full support to retool GMet.
He welcomed DMI’s continued technical and capacity-building support, noting plans for a comprehensive gap analysis of GMet’s data, observation, and digital infrastructure. The assessment will be undertaken by cBrain, a Danish GovTech company specialising in digital governance and large-scale public-sector workflows, to inform a clear, investment-ready roadmap for modernisation.
The Ministry further assured the delegation of its readiness to work closely with GMet, DMI, and relevant agencies to advance early warning systems, improve data governance, and leverage national digital infrastructure to deliver timely and reliable climate information to citizens nationwide.
The DMI delegation was led by Director Ms. Marianne Thyrring and Deputy Director-General Mr. Thomas Kjellberg, who are in Ghana under the Strategic Sector Cooperation (SSC) programme on meteorology. Ms. Thyrring said the visit builds on earlier engagements between Ghana and Denmark, including discussions during the WMO Congress in October 2025 and the Ministry’s participation in the Beyond GovTech Programme hosted by Digital Hub Denmark and Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also in October 2025.
She explained that the ongoing collaboration with GMet under the SSC programme focuses on strengthening the Agency’s digital foundations to meet Ghana’s growing climate and weather information needs. While progress has been made in data collection, she noted that critical gaps persist in data integration, processing, archiving, and end-to-end digital workflows.
According to Ms. Thyrring, the ongoing IT gap analysis will provide a clear diagnosis of these challenges and deliver a structured digital transformation roadmap to guide targeted investments, improve operational efficiency, and enhance the delivery of reliable weather and climate services. She emphasised the importance of sustained Ministry support to translate the findings into practical, coordinated digital actions that deliver tangible public value.
The visit underscores Ghana’s push to align policy reform through the forthcoming GMet revitalisation bill with technical cooperation and digital transformation to strengthen national climate services.
