1. World Bank Group Perspective Workshop on the Vision for WIGOS in 2040
Daniel Kull
Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist
Photo : U.S. Geological Survey

2. WHY IS THE WORLD BANK GROUP INTERESTED?
“Twin goals” – end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity
Source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries
Hydromet services contribute to sustainable development and deliver broad socio-economic benefits

3. OUR CLIENTS (1): ANGOLA OBS NETWORK

4. OUR CLIENTS (2): CENTRAL ASIA OBS NETWORKS
% reduction in hydromet observation networks between
Kyrgyzstan
54%
Tajikistan
38%
Weather, climate and hydrological information is essential for disaster reduction, agriculture, water resources, transport, energy particularly renewables and public health
Importance of weather, climate and hydrological information is growing
To serve ever more elaborate societal needs
To minimize growing economic losses from hydromet disasters
To better adapt to climate change and variability
Weather, climate and hydrological services at national, regional and global levels complement each other and constitute a unique global enterprise guided by the World Meteorological Organization
Public sector - National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) - is a backbone of the system
Annual public funding globally exceeds USD15-20 billion
National funding of NMHSs is usually % of GDP
Turkmenistan
42%

5. OUR CLIENTS (3): OBS NETWORK DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
Cameroon hydro
Tanzania hydro
Senegal hydro
Senegal meteo
Madagascar meteo
Madagascar hydro

6. INVESTMENT CHALLENGES
Operation and Maintenance
Fragmentation
Technically complex

7. GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR INVESTMENT
Identify, enable and support investment in hydromet services (NMHSs)
Pursue integrated approach
Facilitate more effective partnerships with WMO, IFIs, leading NMHSs and donor community
Jointly with WMO provide better access to global products, best practices and expertise
Ensure alignment with Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) and other global initiatives
Provide access to funds for operational guidance and support through “twinning arrangements” with leading NMHSs and WMO
Secure government commitment to increase NMHSs sustainability

8. HYDROMET INVESTMENT APPROACH
Modernization investment must be substantial to achieve transformation, across three complementary areas:
Institutional strengthening, capacity building and implementation support
Modernization of observation infrastructure and forecasting, including leveraging global and regional opportunities
Enhancement of the service delivery system 1 2 3

9. SELECTED PROJECT OVERVIEW

10. Africa Regional Framework Program to Improve Hydromet Services

11. SOCIO-ECONOMICS DOES MATTER
Sustainable operations and financing requires:
Clear demonstration of the importance of observational and data processing infrastructure
Rigorous and widely understood demonstration of the socio-economic benefits, both public and private
Systematic basis for prioritizing the use of available funding for infrastructure and service development and improvement
Economic evidence for additional investment in climate services infrastructure necessary to support national commitments

12. LESSONS LEARNED Invest in capacity, from management to technical
Ensure long-term operations and maintenance (O&M) commitment
Strong user interface leads to better and more sustainable services
User capacity as important as provider capacity
Prioritize public services – open data approach best
Consider sensitivities, challenges and opportunities of public- private partnership
Approach fee-based services with great caution
Leverage international and regional systems
Leverage and coordinate international and domestic partners
Need strong and innovative leadership

13. TECHNICAL LESSONS LEARNED
Ensure appropriate technical support:
Everyone talks about the weather, floods and disasters, this does not mean they are experts
Partnership must prioritize client/public needs, especially when working with private companies
Operational verses “soft” expertise
Innovation verses reliability, scale and sustainability
Procurement – getting the right stuff to do the right thing for the right people at the right cost
Photos: Canadian Environmental Assistance

14. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION INITIATIVE - GOALS
Clearly reflect what is actually required by the user, including vital information about all specific objectives, requirements, needs and constraints of the project (including life cycle management);
Provide a comprehensive and coherent synoptic weather station system specification that can be fully understood by all potential users and suppliers;
Express user required outcomes in-line with WMO requirements and recommendations instead of using blended and overly detailed specifications stemming from various commercial products, in order to ensure the consistency and the final performance of the solution;
Include detailed technical specifications only if required, in order to avoid unnecessary and/or conflicting constraints on vendor’s solutions, so as to ensure reduced complexity, better reliability and lower costs;
Make tender specifications easy to understand to all overseeing stakeholders, in order to achieve an effective and efficient purchasing process;
Provide the possibility to tenderers to enter into tender procedures with correct and good quality requirement specifications that are suitable for various types of procurement procedures.

15. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION INITIATIVE - STATUS
Current focus - components of a synoptic meteorological network:
Ambient or air temperature
(Minimum) grass temperature
Soil temperature
Dew point temperature
Relative humidity
Barometric pressure
Precipitation
Surface wind
Solar radiation
AWS, datalogger
Meteorological Information Processing System (MIPS)
Guidance documentation and web-tool being produced
Testing to start before end 2016

16. Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist
DANIEL KULL
Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist
Europe and Central Asia Region (ECA)
and
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
World Bank Group
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