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Status of GFCS Implementation

in Burkina and Tanzania,

June 2016

Dr. Arame Tall

GFCS Regional Programme Coordinator

[email protected]

•www.gfcs-climate.org/

mailto:[email protected]


Baseline


Step 1: National Baseline Capacity Assessment for Development of Climate Services

Step 2: National Consultation on Climate Services, Development of NHMS Strategic Plan

Step 3: Participatory Inter-sectoral Development of National Action Plan for the Establishment of a National Framework for Climate Services

Step 4: National Action Plan Endorsement workshop (High level)

Step 5: Launch of National Framework for Climate Services, Operational implementation of priority activities, rigorous M&E

Zooming in on Burkina and Tanzania

TANZANIA: NAP

due to TANDREC

June 30 2016

BURKINA FASO: NFCS Launch

planned early July 2016

• High Level Ministerial Round of Visits, Feb-March 2016

• National Action plan intersector pre-validation, 16 Feb

• National Action Plan on Climate Services adopted in HL session, 14-15 April 2016 – 60+ participants cross-sectors

– Session opened by Transport Minister, UNRC

– Strong UN System Backing,

Delivering as One

- Number of points

Remaining to be clarified

by NHMS…

Implementation update: Burkina Faso

Burkina’s UN RC, Mrs. Metsi Mukhatha, opens HL National Action Plan Validation Workshop, side by side with Burkina Faso’s Minister

of Transport. April 14 2016. Credit: UNDP BF

Burkina Faso: Priority Climate Service Needs

Priority climate services to be delivered

- Agriculture & Food Security:

Downscaled seasonal outlook (onset and cessation,

duration and intra-seasonal distribution)

Site- and crop- specific agro-meteorological advisories

across time-scales

Early warning to guide agricultural production (dry spells,

extreme rain events, out of season rainfall)

- Water:

Forecasts and projections of river basins across time scales

for the hydroelectric sector Evapotranspiration

potential

Flood forecasting for main riverways (mostly around

Ouaga and other key economic centers)

- Energy:

Wind potential atlas

Insolation (solar radiation) data in specific sites to guide

calibration of planned government solar installations

across the country as part of new national development

plan

- DRR:

Multi-hazard early warning system for all climate related fast onset

disasters

Drought Early warning

Training of disaster managers / development of SOPs for setting

the alarm from national to local levels through the designated

national authority (CONASUR)

- Health:

Prediction of the occurrence, peaks, spatio-temporal dynamics and

behaviour of climate-dependent diseases

Special bulletins for malaria prevention (and other water-related

vector-borne diseases) Special bulletins for meningitis (dust

episodes monitoring)

- Transport/Infrastructure:

Extreme temperature historical records over the past 30 years

Historical record of extreme rain events over the past 100 years

(including out of season rains)

Humidity and wind speed/direction

Precipitation intensity historical record

Burkina Faso: Emerging Priorities for Action



Component 1-a: For the generation of quality hydro

meteorological information

•Densification of the meteorological observation network and improving

data collection (WMO/GEO?)

•Human/technical capacity strengthening of the NMSDGM (WMO?)

•Densification of the hydrological observation system (?)

•Human and technical capacity strengthening of the NHS (DGRE)

•Development of common hydro meteorological database for the

purposes of climate services

– Bridging Gap between DGM

and DGRE (?)

Debating user needs vs. observation stations proposed by DGM, Groupwork activity during National Validation workshop, April 14, 2016

Photo: Serge Soubeiga, GFCS,

Burkina Faso: Priorities for Action (cont’d)



• Component 1-b: For the co-design, co-development of

user tailored climate services

• Creation of the GTP-Elargi: a space for collaboration

between DGM, DGPRE and sector technical experts, for the

co-production of decadal forecast-based advisories tailored

to the needs of each priority sector (national partners)

• Inscription of a budget line item for the operations of the

GTP-Enlarged within the national budget (about $12,000

per annum) (Ministry of Transport)

Burkina Faso: Priorities for Action (cont’d)



Component 2: For effective Communication and access to climate

services by final users at national scale

•Development of a climate services communication strategy, defining an

information communication flowchart from the GTP-Elargi to

intermediary users and final end users (WMO/NORCAP?)

•Media trainings, improved partnership with public / private media

groups / Rural radio trainings (FAO?)

•Trainings for rural intermediaries (rural extension agents, field-based

NGOs and CBOs) (WFP?)

•Public-private partnerships with mobile telecommunication companies

to scale up delivery via SMS and voicemails (UNDP?)

•Network of communicators dedicated to climate information

communication broadcasting in local languages (WMO?)

Burkina Faso: Priorities for Action (final)

Component 3: For capacity strengthening of users to understand

and act on received climate services, as well as provide feedback on

quality of services received

•Trainings of final users on the possible uses to make of received climate

services (ministry national policy makers across climate sensitive

sectors; farmer and pastoralist trainings) (WHO?)

•Inclusion of climate training modules into national training curricula for

students/teachers across primary, secondary and university education

establishments (UNITAR?)

Component 4: For defining an institutional framework to govern

Burkina Faso’s National Framework for Climate Services:

•Elevating DGM into an autonomous National Meteorological Agency

•Establishment of the National framework by decree (UN ResRep)

• Lamine Ndiaye deployed to Burkina – May 1st 2016

• Extract Priority Action Plan from the NAP – implementing all ST activities (June 3rd)

• Finalize Mapping of ongoing Climate Service programs (spreadsheet)

– Current funding available in country for

implementation of ST priority activities: USD 20.6m

• Establishment of the Inter-agency Taskforce on Climate Services (ToRs drafted, UNCT meeting on June 1st to validate ToRs and launch group) – Main roles: M&E; Development of an inter-agency

Funding Proposal to address unfunded gaps –target: GCF

• Prepare for Launch of Burkina’s National Framework (July 2016)

• National Action plan intersector pre-validation, 16 Feb

• National Action Plan on Climate Services adopted in HL session, 14-15 April 2016 – 60+ participants cross-sectors

– Session opened by Transport Minister, UNRC

– Strong UN System Backing,

Delivering as One

Burkina Faso: Next Steps

Groupwork activity during National Validation workshop,

April 14, 2016 Photo: Serge Soubeiga, GFCS

Niger Burkina Faso Mali Senegal Chad

NAP developed

& Endorsed by

all national

stakeholders

NAP developed

& Endorsed by

all national

stakeholders

NAP developed

& Endorsed by

most national

stakeholders

NAP developed,

Endorsed by all

stakeholders on

May 19-20

NAP under

development

Climate service

needs of users

across 6 priority

sectors identified

Climate service

needs of users

across 6 priority

sectors identified

Climate service

needs of users

across 6 priority

sectors identified

Climate service

needs of users

across 7 priority

sectors identified

Climate service

needs of users

across 6 priority

sectors identified

UiP to deliver

user-tailored CSs

(GTP-I)

Existing UiP

strengthened (the

GTP-Elargi)

Existing UiP

strengthened

(GTP-SC)

Existing UiP

strengthened

(CST)

UiP under

development

Inter-agency

Taskforce on CS

being setup

Inter-agency

Taskforce on CS

being setup

Inter-agency

Taskforce on CS

being setup

Inter-agency

Taskforce on CS

proposed

N/A

NFCS Launch in

July 2016

NFCS Launch in

June 2016

Decree for NFCS

creation drafted

Decree for NFCS

creation drafted

Decree for NFCS

creation in draft

Progress of GFCS Implementation– Burkina in the Sahel

Implementation Update: Tanzania • GFCS Adaptation Program in Africa (2014 – 2016)

• Total budget of USD 10m, funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Tanzania and Malawi)

• Aim: increase the resilience of people most vulnerable to the impacts of weather and climate-related hazards

• Target Sectors: Agriculture & Food Security, Health, DRR

• Multi-agency research to operations program: CCAFS, CICERO, CMI, IFRC, WFP, WHO & WMO (lead agency).

• First time these agencies work together to deliver Climate Services –much learning on how to achieve coordinated end-to-end climate services delivery. Up Scaling now remains

• Today, GFCS is supporting TANDREC to Craft Tanzania’s National Framework for Climate Services;

• National Action Plan due to TANDREC June 30 2016

Tanzania: Opportunities for the NFCS

• Meeting with UNRC Mr. Alvarro Rodriguez on April 19, 2016

• UNDAP already integrates climate resilience as 1 of 12 objectives aligned with GoT national development plans

• No less than $27M currently mobilized for climate services work, most projects ending soon

– GFCS Adaptation Program in Africa (2014 – 2016) $10M

– WHO Building resilience in WASH sector (2013-2016) $10M

– UNDP EWS Program (2013-17) $3,6M

– CCAFS Integrated Food Forecasting System for East africa $2,76M

– WB Building DRR Resilience in Tanzania (2014-2016); $900k

– WMO Strategic Planning for TMA -2016-2021 (WISER funds)

• Opportunity for development of a joint multi-agency proposal to implement a common masterplan for coordinated climate services delivery at national scale…

Tanzania: Emerging Priorities

• Urgent need to go from pilot to Scale in climate services delivery

• Deployment of GFCS national expert to Connect the Dots between parnters, sectors, themes (based at UNDP?)

• Finalization of Tanzania’s National Framework for Climate Services (NFCS) Action Plan Document, with clear identification of investment priorities and funding gaps

• Support to the political validation of the NFCS Document by TANDREC

• Finalization of TMA’s Strategic Vision Document (WMO-led)

• Development of a Multi-agency proposal to address unfunded gaps from the National Action Plan,

Lessons Learnt: GFCS implementation in Africa

1. Effective delivery of climate service interventions requires joint implementation, a common Masterplan (i.e., the National Action Plans)

2. Coordination vaccuum: Incoherence in donor funding / multiplicity of duplicate initiatives, most important barrier to GCFS implementation at regional and national levels

Information, 1st step in Coordination > GFCS information go-to place

‘Spaces for coordination’ should be set up at the country/regional levels, ensuring all relevant stakeholders are engaged and brought together around a common agenda on Climate services

3. Urgent need to Go from Pilot to Scale

4. Give the Time for Change: Results at large scale & institutional change will take time

– Target: horizon 2020 for frameworks to be self-sustaining

Impact Pathway: Coordinated Frameworks for Climate Services at National/Regional Level

Horizon 2020 Year 1:

Setting the Frame, Establishing the

Foundation

Year 2:

User interface platforms functional, Relationships begin to forge

Year 3:

Bottlenecks released, widespread delivery of user-tailored climate

services at national scale

Year 4:

User Demand for climate services articulated and

sustained

Year 5:

Framework is functional,

and sustained.

Dialogue started, Climate Services on Political Agenda

Prototype user-tailored climate

services delivered

Climate scientists seconded to key

ministries, integration of

climate services into planning

Multi Hazard EWS functional; early warnings systematically delivered nation-wide for all

climate related hazards

80% of rural population receives

agro-advisories

Government ministry planning decisions are

climate informed; appetite for climate services sustained.

Recommendations 1. To Achieve a Transformative Agenda > Donor coordination,

Common Climate Services Delivery Framework fundamental – vital role of GFCS PAC to bring together agencies and funding streams

from global to national levels

– the Interagency taskforce, space for coordination on CS at national level

2. Investing in the right capacity at the right place will make the difference at this inception phase of the GFCS in Africa -NORCAP mechanism; additional deployments for:

1. Additional Gap Bridgers and Dot Connectors needed

2. Support to develop/implement communication strategy on CSs

3. Support to understand factors of user uptake of CSs @local level

3. Ensure buy-in of all stakeholders into the National Action Planning Process, Common Delivery Plan on Climate Services

4. Empower the user interface platforms, key to sustainable delivery of user-tailored services (e.g., the GTPs)

5. Promote the Regional Framework for Climate Services in Africa

Climate Services 101

Premise:

Information is Power


Thank you for your attention

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