The Last Mile: Saving lives, improving livelihoods and increasing resiliency with tailored weather information services Dr. Bonizella Biagini CIRDA Manager 15 March 2016 Livingstone, Zambia

Support focused on Data and tech transfer Identify and reach end users Mainstream/integrate data into development planning (NAPs) Financial sustainability planning Provides support to 11 countries. Objectives Support climate services in their efforts to collect, analyse and disseminate climate information for long term planning and adaptation Meet the need to generate timely, high quality climate information that is comprehensible and applicable to end users Enable communities and policy makers to access climate information CIRDA Overview 2

3 Progress on Global Support Technical Assistance to National Teams On the ground support on hydrology, technology, meteorology and forecasting Data rescue and digitization support Workshops on forecasting and technologies (creating tools) Procurement support to at least 7 partners Establishment of Long Term Agreements (LTAs) to enable acquisition of CI technologies and services Private Sector Engagement Market study to identify partnerships and potential for revenue streams Workshops on private sector engagement (Uganda) and application development (Zambia) Outreach to mobile phone companies, technology providers, financial sector and other PS potential partners Knowledge Management and best practices sharing Facilitating dialogue among government and non governmental stakeholders Communication toolkit for national projects Communication platform to share achievements, best practices and lessons learned Creating new tools to communicate climate and weather information to a broad audience South South Cooperation to identify best practices- missions and advice on training opportunities

4 Project Progress Indicators Capacity Improvement (% achieved of targeted improvement)Technology Transfer (Equipment Procured) Direct CIRDA Support (# of field missions) Benin 29% 7 automatic agro-climatic stations 3 automatic synoptic stations 140 limnimetric staff-gauges 20 automatic limnimetric recorders 1 sea buoy, 2 ADCPs 2 multi-parameters and portable analyzers of sea water 19 hydrological stations were rehabilitated 2 Burkina Faso 10%planning procurement of 150 AWS and automatic rain gauges1 The Gambia Preparatory phase Plan to use LTA 9 AWS (WMO-compliant) 2 Ethiopia progress was registered - technical trainings and awareness- creation events 40 AWS 1 upper air radio sonde 1 Liberia Preparatory phase LTA 11 lightning sensors 11 real time all-in-one AWS (the full service - includes renewal of services for up to 5 years) 1 Malawi progress was registered - NMHS staff attending university programmes, technical trainings and awareness-creation events Plan to use LTA 10 AWS 3 Sao Tome and Principe progress was registered - technical trainings, project management and journalists' trainings - the international tender process was finalized - technical requirements were sent to CIRDA for the development of specifications 0 Planned Q2 Sierra Leone Preparatory phase LTA - signed contract with the Procurement Support Unit to outsource procurement - 8 lightning sensors with 8 surface observation stations and 2 synoptic stations (mix between WMO-compliant and innovative technologies) 2 Tanzania progress was registered - technical trainings, awareness-creation events 16 AWS 10 hydro stations 50 river gauges 20 automatic rainfall gauges 3 Uganda 20% LTA 20 AWS a lighting detection network 5 sensors with 5 real time all-in-one AWS 4 Zambia 27%26 AWS3 Domestic NMHS financing – Zambia (increased 50%), Uganda (increased by more than 100% - radar acquisition), Benin (increased 10%)

General Challenges 5 Building Capacity Growing need for capacity building and specialized training Need for procurement support and other services, including communication Partnerships Lack of institutional coordination and information exchange, including resources management Identifying complementary roles of governments, private sector and civil society Absence of regional cooperation even among neighboring countries Technology and Services Going beyond hardware and observations to forecasts and applications Understanding and accessing innovative technologies and services, know how and software Limited tools available in countries to package and communicate information sectorally for access to end users

Current Challenges Status of implementation: Some countries are still in the process of acquiring technology that forms the basis for climate information and early warnings Most countries that have acquired the technology have not yet transformed the basic observations from their systems into useful and actionable information Next steps: weather and climate observations to be included into: Weather and climate forecasts Fundamental input to the NAPs Public “Last Mile” products and services (early warnings), and Private “Last Mile” products and services (sustainability applications) 6

7 Goals of this Workshop 1.Now we increasingly have the data collection. 2.How can we transform data to information, and communicate the last mile to help vulnerable communities? This is how: Explore pathways to make the data available to end users through local networks, technology, and partnerships, including identification of end users’ needs Consider market opportunities in the form of new weather products and services with the benefit of a Market Study in the 11 partner countries Explore relationships and partnerships with private weather services, NGOs, and others that can help national climate services reach the Last Mile – and become more sustainable With technical support, work on country strategies for the next phase of the CIRDA program to reach end users and get to last mile Engage with software developers here in a “hackathon” to design and develop new applications to transform and communicate weather data to end users

Thank you Dr. Bonizella Biagini CIRDA Manager UNDP-GEF 8