UNDP CIRDA Country Program Managers Workshop August 2015 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Reports from Strengthening National Climate Information/ Early Warning System (CI/EWS) Projects BURKINA FASO Ir. Rigobert BAYALA CI-EWS Coordinator 1

Key Departments, Agencies or Services 2 President Environment and Fisheries Ministry National Council for Environment and Sustainable Development Permanent Secretariat National Observatory for Environment and Sustainable Development Infrastructure, opening up and transport Ministry General Meteorology Office ASECNA Agriculture, hydraulic resource and food security Ministry Water Resource Office SAAGA Program Social Action and National Solidarity Ministry National Council of Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation Permanent Secretariat

Space and territories 3 Met Hydro, Agric, Fish CONASUR SAAGA Energy Water, Fish Mobile phone company: Telmob Burkina Airtel Telecel Burkina rain gauge

National Concil of Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation Contribution It is the coordinating body for disaster prevention, management of emergency relief and rehabilitation. As such, it is responsible for: provide advocacy, mobilization and support for the prevention and management of emergency relief and rehabilitation ; ensure the integration of disaster risk in development plans and programs. 4

5 Water resource Office Contribution Elaborate, develop and promote the national level, monitoring tools and information system and monitoring of water data ; Monitor and support the development of regional and international cooperation in the fields of education and information on the water ; Develop and optimize data collection networks ; Centralize and treat water resources data, usage and associated settings; Manage the database on water resources, uses and associated environments, including to ensure regular updating of data; Manage and lead the National Documentation Centre on the water ; Disseminate information on water resources, uses and associated areas, in consultation with the concerned departments and services ; Monitor and supervise the studies, infrastructure, work and activities related to the mobilization of surface water resources.

SAAGA Program 6 Contribution increase rainfall by cloud seeding

7 Meteorology Office Contribution development and direct management of the country's meteorological observation networks; monitoring of Burkina Faso relations with international organizations of Meteorology ; the successful integration of the national meteorology in regional and global networks of exchanges and communications; contribution to the prevention and management of natural disasters; the development of a climate and weather forecasting capabilities for the benefit of public and private organizations of Burkina Faso or abroad; surveillance and monitoring of climate change; participation in the World Watch Meteorology.

8 Contribution ASECNA is an international public institution governed by the Convention in Dakar. …, forecasting and transmission of information in the field of aeronautical meteorology. defining specifications for functions, systems and means, as well as procedures and working methods implemented, the study, the definition of specifications, purchasing, receiving, installation, technical verification, the operational maintenance, operation of equipment and facilities, communication systems, navigation, surveillance and air traffic management and aviation meteorology, the implementation of a system safety and quality management in accordance with the standards and recommended practices of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

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10 National Observatory for Environment and Sustainable Development Contribution The main objective of the ONEDD is to collect and process environmental information available in the country to promote and disseminate the form of indicators, data and metadata. The specific objectives are: ensure monitoring and evaluation of activities related to the implementation of the three Rio conventions on the fight against desertification, climate change and biodiversity; to monitor relevant indicators of pressure, state, impact and response to the environment and sustainable development; to provide an interface between the Observatory indicators and those of the national monitoring and evaluation system for sustainable land management through performance indicators and results; to ensure the management of data and metadata bases, including spatial reference, covering the fields of environment and sustainable development; ensure the harmonization of methods, norms and standards for the collection and processing of environmental information; ensure the formatting of indicators and results with regular updating dashboards and dissemination in the form of information available on a web portal.

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Future plans Are there any national, regional initiatives ongoing (Outside of UNDP, Gef) that are relevant? Banque mondiale, BRACED, (REGIS  USAID), WASCAL, MESA, FAO, CILSS What are the short, mid and long term plans of the key departments, agencies or services Ignitia AB (UK Met Office): commercialize products and services Self Help Africa  Airtel: commercialize products and services MESA: Improve data QA/QC assimilation, analysis, and integration into products and services Insurance compagny (weather index based insurance activity)  Project ACA (under TICAD V) partnership signed between Ministry in charge of Env – SP/CONEDD- Planet Gurantee- OXFAM 12

Needs for support by CIRDA team Developement of PPP Partnership builiding with Tele-communication company Further development of weather index insurance activity Strategy for resource mobilization of national budget Climate data sharing with neighoboring countries (including CIRDA and no-member country of CIRDA) 13