Environmental Data Department
Tasks and specializations:
- Managing environmental databases, supervising their production, updating and providing them to all parties.
- Preparing, compiling, analyzing and preserving diagrams, data and statistics and providing them with different entities.
- Establishing and managing the environmental data bank, developing the attached systems and applications for managing environmental data and putting them in the required image to support the decision-making process.
- Preparing the annual environmental performance report in coordination with the competent authorities.
- Coordination with the various departments on establishing monitoring and control systems for their projects and affiliated sites and linking them with the authority directly.
- Determining the mechanism of data exchange between the different authorities and linking it with the Environmental Control Information System in the authority.
- Setting development plans for information and data systems and supervising their implementation.
- Coordination with the various authorities regarding the unification of environmental standards and standards.
- Manage, analyze and interpret data to manage and reduce potential risks and improve conditions.
- Preparing programs and time plans to collect, sort and verify the information.
- Strengthening cooperation with the relevant local, regional and international institutions regarding environmental data, standards and indicators.
- Prepare reports on deviations and suggest appropriate solutions.
- Environmental case study, assessment and follow-up of the environmental situation, and identification of potential impacts in coordination with various agencies.
- Study and implement comprehensive environmental surveys for different environments in order to achieve enhanced databases and improve environmental decision-making.
- Participate in building national capacities and supporting educational and research programs in the field of environmental protection.
- Preparing explanatory frameworks and notes related to the application of environmental standards and requirements, studying them and comparing them with the conditions and standards appropriate for the Kuwaiti environment.
- Follow up on reports on local environmental conditions and prepare periodic reports thereon.
- Suggesting studies for environmental and natural risks in the short and long term and preparing reports on the results of these studies in coordination with the competent authorities.
- Preparing, managing, following up and developing the national plan for environmental data management and ensuring its application in a manner that achieves the integrity of databases and improves the capabilities of the authority by taking decisions.
- Preparing and developing the official environmental portal for the State of Kuwait to ensure the quality of the information provided.
- Preparing periodic reports and submitting them to the Deputy Director General for Environmental Control Affairs.
- Prepare the annual work plan and proposed management budget for the department and present it to the Deputy Director General for Environmental Control Affairs.