Evaluation of Canada’s meteorological warning services for Arctic Ocean: chapter 3

1.0 Introduction

This report presents the results of the Evaluation of Canada’s Provision of Meteorological Warning Services for Defined Regions of the Arctic Ocean (METAREA Initiative) which was conducted by Goss Gilroy Inc. and Environment Canada’s (EC) Evaluation Directorate, Audit and Evaluation Branch in 2013-14. The evaluation was identified in the 2013-14 Departmental Risk-Based Audit and Evaluation Plan and conducted in order to meet a commitment to evaluate the initiative, as well as the Treasury Board (TB) Policy on Evaluation requirement to evaluate all direct program spending every five years.

The document is organized as follows: Section 2.0 provides background information on the METAREA Initiative. Section 3.0 presents the evaluation design, including the purpose and scope of the evaluation, and the approach and methods used to conduct the evaluation. Section 4.0 and 5.0 lay out, respectively, the evaluation’s findings and conclusions.  The recommendations and management response are presented in Section 6.0.