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Report on the Regional Stakeholder Coordination Workshop

May 1-2, 2017 (Saly, Senegal)

Defining a Common Roadmap for Scaling Up the Delivery of Weather, Water and Climate Services in Africa

Scaling up Coordination in Practice

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Table of Contents Acronyms ................................................................................................................................... 3

Executive Summary ................................................................................................................... 4

Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 5

Opening Remarks ....................................................................................................................... 6

An urgent call for coordination ................................................................................................. 7

Who is who in the Africa Climate Services ................................................................................ 8

Framing Coordination ............................................................................................................... 9

Setting the scene: Introducing a common Value Chain Approach .......................................... 12

Mapping of the regional compendium of projects .................................................................. 15

Lost on translation: Towards a common language .................................................................. 16

End User Perspective ............................................................................................................... 17

Setting up the Regional Knowledge Management Platform ................................................... 18

Filling Gaps: Collaboration to strengthen the value chain ..................................................... 21

Plenary Reflections: The urgency of a Regional Collaboration Platform on Water, Weather and Climate Services ............................................................................................................... 22

Adoption of a Common Roadmap .......................................................................................... 27

Closing panel: Keeping the dialogue going for joint climate services implementation ………. 29

Annex 1: Final Workshop Programme ..................................................................................... 31

Annex 2: Participants List ......................................................................................................... 34

Annex 3: Entry point for collaborative work on Climate Services ........................................... 37

Annex 4: Common Roadmap ................................................................................................... 40

Figure 1: GFCS Five Pillars .......................................................................................................... 7

Figure 2: Value Chain – From Producers of Climate Information Services to End Users ........ 12

Figure 3: Mapping of climate service initiatives across the value chain ................................ 14

Figure 4: Regional mapping of initiatives ................................................................................ 17

Figure 5: Quick google search on regional climate knowledge platforms .............................. 19

Figure 6: Proposed Institutional Framework for Coordination on Weather, Water and Climate Services in Africa ......................................................................................................... 29

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Acronyms

ACMAD African Center of Meteorological Application for Development

ACPC Africa Climate Policy Centre

AfDB The African Development Bank

AGRHYMET Centre Regional de Formation et d'Application en Agrométéorologie et Hydrologie Opérationnelle AMCEN African Ministerial Conference on the Environment

AU African Union

CC Climate Change

CIS Climate Information Services

CCDA Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa

COP Conference of the Parties e.g., to a UN convention

CS Climate Services

DFID Department for International Development (UK)

ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States

GFCS Global Framework for Climate Services

ICPAC IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center

IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

KMP Knowledge Management Platform

NFCS National Framework on Climate Services

NMHS National Meteorological and Hydrological Services

RECs Regional Economic Communities

SADC Southern African Development Community

SDGs Sustainable Development Goals

UNDP United Nations Development Programme

UNFCCC United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

USAID United States Agency for International Development

WASCAL West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use

WMO World Meteorological Organization

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Executive Summary The “Regional Stakeholder Coordination Workshop: Defining a Common Roadmap for Scaling Up the Delivery of Weather, Water and Climate Services in Africa”, opened a significant opportunity for stakeholders operating and investing in climate services in the Africa region, to reflect together on what actions are urgently needed to achieve improved coordination and coherence among the multitude of initiatives and investments on climate services in Africa.

Seventy participants1 representing thirty-four organizations and twenty-two countries came together in Saly, Senegal from 1 to 2 May 2017, to discuss how they can coordinate efforts to scale up weather, water and climate services delivery in the region of Africa.

Two main objectives were set for this meeting: firstly, to convene key regional stakeholders engaged in climate services to develop a common understanding of their initiatives, mutual roles and impact; and secondly to define a common roadmap outlining how to deliver coordinated climate services by joining institutional forces. After two days of interactive sessions, strategic discussions and networking, the workshop resulted in a roadmap with a set of recommendations of how to move from national to regional frameworks as a drive to improve coordination mechanisms.

The event was convened by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), through the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) Office and jointly organized by the African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA/African Climate Policy Center) and the African Development Bank (AfDB), expressing a common desire by these organizations to work together to draft a common plan of action for improving climate service delivery. The workshop was realised thanks to generous support from UNDP, the World Bank and over thirty organizations that covered the cost of their travel to attend this meeting.

At the end of the intense, yet participatory two-day workshop, a roadmap for the coordinated regional delivery of CSs was conceptualized and agreed upon by all meeting participants. This report describes the main proceedings and deliberations which led to the adoption of the Saly roadmap, and summarizes its main components which include:

1. Definition of an Institutional Framework to Coordinate Climate Services Delivery in Africa

2. Donor Cooperation Mechanism 3. Spaces for coordination 4. Regional Knowledge Management Platform

It is hoped that this road map will constitute the start of joint implementation by stakeholders in the African climate services community of a strategic set of activities, which will move forward the contribution of weather, water and climate information in 1 Annex 1: Participants list

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development planning focusing across continental, sub-regional, national to local coordination.

Participants and convenors at the 2017 Regional Workshop © GFCS

1. Introduction

Africa is the most vulnerable continent to climate change due to its low adaptive capacity. Projected climate impacts are likely to compromise development efforts undertaken so far. Changes in rainfall patterns, high spatial and temporal variability and extreme climatic events have created conditions for food insecurity that have become endemic in some regions. The impact of such variability on African economies is high due to their quasi-structural dependence on the primary sector.

The close relationship between the primary sector economy and GDP means that any determinant significantly correlated with the primary sector has a direct impact on the GDP. Climate change is one of those determinants. It is expected that climate change-related shocks will put additional pressure on key human development sectors in Africa, especially agriculture, livestock, fisheries, health, Infrastructure, etc.

This trend requires policy-informed foresight from decision-makers to minimize the major negative transformations that will affect livelihoods and economies. In this respect, climate services are a major tool for decision-making and policy planning. Climate services are

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defined as provision of climate information presented in a form that can be used by decision-makers and organizations in support of their decisions.

In Africa, the stake is strategic given the growing importance of hydroelectric power, potential use of climate information in agriculture, water, pastoralism, health, energy, fisheries, tourism, infrastructure sectors, etc.

In order to accompany the vision of an optimistic Africa that realizes its potential in 2030 (Agenda 2030 for SDGs) and 2063 (Agenda 2063 - the Africa we want), it is important to build a common vision of climate services in Africa.

To emphasise the need for regional alliance around this important thematic, the WMO, AMCOMET, UNDP, ACPC, the World Bank, AfDB organised a workshop to build synergies among key stakeholders in the continent. To date, there are many actors in the weather and climate services field in Africa. International organizations, continental institutions, sub-regional and national entities are all implementing various programmes and projects with a view to improving the development, provision and uptake of weather, water and climate services.

The integration of these climate services programs will be an important step that will set the tone for achieving 2030 and 2063 African targets. An increased collaboration and coordination between stakeholders would result in harmonised activities on weather and climate services, that take into consideration the capacities of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) and national institutions, thereby ensuring greater return on investment and potentially achieve successful implementation of weather and climate service initiatives at regional and national levels, where implementation is most urgently required.

2. Opening key messages

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The opening ceremony led the 2 day event with opening remarks © GFCS

The workshop was opened by a distinguished set of stakeholders prominent in the African climate services space including: Filipe Lúcio (Director of GFCS, WMO), Joseph Mukabana (Director of the WMO Regional Offices for Africa and LDCs, and AMCOMET Secretariat), James Murombedzi (ACPC Coordinator), Alia Dia (UNDP programme lead), Prashant Singh (World Bank), and Justus Kabyemera (AfDB, ClimDev Special Fund). The workshop was officially opened by Magueye Mareme Ndao the, representative of the Ministry of Transport, Government of Senegal, Director of the National Agency for Civil Aviation and Meteorology (ANACIM).

The following key messages were outlined by the presenters during their opening remarks, summarizing the baseline status of climate services delivery in Africa:

The necessity of coordinated efforts: The workshop itself is the first indicator for an effort towards achieving better coordination in the African region, with the intention to reduce duplication and address redundancies in the provision of climate services. The continent needs a well-coordinated platform in support of climate services to maximize investments currently running at the value of three billion US dollars, based on a 2016 GFCS survey2.

However, coordinating climate services is difficult as different partners have specific mandates for delivering services along the value chain, with many efforts resulting in small fragmented interventions. To enhance the application of climate information services, knowledge sharing frameworks need to be strengthened and partnerships fostered between government institutions, the private sector, civil society and vulnerable communities. This will make for a better coordinated climate informed decision-making process.

What do we hope to achieve through coordination? : A set of critical areas of potential collaboration were identified:

- joint mapping of weather and climate investments and initiatives; - opportunities for collaboration on knowledge partnerships; - understanding impediments to coordination along the climate services value chain;

and - agreeing on mechanisms to coordinate including protocols for advancing climate

services at regional and national scales.

Role of different actors across the value chain: The climate services value chain in Africa and elsewhere consists of multiple actors, including data producers, communicators, policy makers, donors and users. From producers to end users, especially where there is

2 Joint Meeting of Presidents of Regional Associations and Presidents of Technical Commissions, Geneva 9-10, 2017, WMO

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weaker capacity across the value chain, training and capacity building must be stepped up to build a system that delivers climate services for socio-economic benefits.

Private sector engagement: The emerging role of the private sector in climate service delivery in the continent was recognized. There is a need to integrate government responses with private sector engagement to coordinate modernization efforts. Governments help to define demand for climate services and these demands may not always be feasibly met by just public-sector entities.

Drawing links with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): There is a need to focus on SDGs and invest in climate information and climate services to support African governments achieve SDG13 on climate action. The Climate Outlook Forums should be assessed to provide lessons on how to better enhance coordination for the delivery of climate services.

3. An urgent call for collaboration among the GFCS partners in the region

The keynote speech that followed the opening ceremony highlighted the urgent need for collaboration among partners in the continent.

Delivered by Mr. Filipe Lúcio (GFCS, WMO), the keynote speech introduced the Global Framework for Climate Services, its primary five pillars and the value chain for delivering climate services, highlighting that activities are underpinned by capacity development.

The Framework’s vision is to enable society to better manage the risks and opportunities arising from climate variability and change through developing and incorporating science-based climate information and prediction into planning, policy and practice. The implementation of the Framework has different levels of intervention (Global, Regional and National).

The Framework3 will be built upon the following five pillars as presented in Figure 1: user-interface platform; climate services information system; observations and monitoring; research, modelling and prediction; and capacity development.

Current climate service investments within the Africa region have resulted in multiple improvements, but further evidence is needed to showcase the successes and learning to-date. Mr Lúcio noted that many countries lack specialised expertise for the translation of climate observations into services and those with the most limited abilities are in Africa.

3 World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). 2014. Implementation Plan of the Global Framework for Climate Services. Geneva: WMO http://gfcs.wmo.int/sites/default/files/implementation-plan//GFCS-IMPLEMENTATION-PLAN-FINAL-14211_en.pdf

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Investing in climate services at global, regional and national levels requires coordinated efforts with a need to improve communication among actors.

Figure 1: GFCS Five Pillars

Source: WMO (2014)

4. Who’s who in African climate services?

Following the keynote address, Arame Tall led a participatory game activity in order for participants to get to know one another better.

During this interactive session, participants were asked to respond with their feet to a series of questions, leading to new introductions amongst participants and stimulating discussions. Some the questions posed included:

- Who has worked in climate services for over 20 years, 10 years, 5 years or under?

- What do you do? (from Atmospheric scientist to community level worker)

- Whose work becomes tougher when a climate-related disaster strikes? Who sees their workload increase?

The final activity resulted in a circle being formed, with participants holding hands. The intention of this exercise was to showcase that we are all in this business of addressing climate change together and this workshop is a means to enable joint collaboration.

The images below capture the participatory session.

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Participants get to know one another © GFCS

Participants tag people they have met before © GFCS

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participant, Cheikh Kane, responds Participants cluster themselves based to a question © GFCS on their scale of operation © GFCS

A discussion about improving gender balance in the climate services sector © GFCS

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Participants form a circle to promote joint efforts to address climate change © GFCS

5. Framing coordination in Africa: partnerships on

Weather, Water and Climate Services in the region

In the session that followed, the primary aim was to emphasise the work being undertaken across the value chain for more effective use of climate knowledge for action on adaptation.

Five initiatives that are multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral were invited to pitch their work, noting the challenges they face in coordinating multiple stakeholders across the value chain. Four primary questions were posed:

- How have they achieved the coordination of diverse stakeholders? - Outline their main challenges - What have been their main successes and failures? - Lessons learnt and recommendations for others.

Pitch # 1: African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET) and the Integrated African Strategy on Meteorology Weather and Climate Services Jay Wilson discussed the role of AMCOMET to increase political support and recognition of the value added of meteorological services for social economic development across Africa. This high-level coordination platform, politically recognised by AU Heads of State and Governments, acts through an integrated strategy in the coordination and delivery of climate services.

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AMCOMETs primary focal areas include: increase political support for and recognition of NMHS and RCCs; enhance production and delivery of Weather and climate services for sustainable development; improve access to meteorological services; support provision of weather and climate services for climate change adaptation and mitigation; and improve partnerships with relevant institutions and funding mechanisms.

One of the main challenges facing AMCOMET is the lack of continuity in the political landscape; Ministers responsible for meteorology change quite often and belong to various ministries, such as environment, transport, infrastructure, water and agriculture. This results in meteorology not always being prioritised.

The African Union endorsed the Integrated African Strategy on Meteorology Weather and Climate Services, a key policy document which aims to highlight the role of NMHSs as key components of national, sub-regional and continental frameworks for sustainable development in Africa. This strategy aims to improve the capacity of NMHSs on the continent, to provide more accurate weather and climate services that meet the needs of end-users in various sectors and support the structured implementation of GFCS in Africa.

Pitch # 2: The Africa Hydromet Program

Prashant Singh for the World Bank promoted The Africa Hydromet Program. The Hydromet Program is a joint initiative of the World Meteorological Organization, the World Bank Group, the African Development Bank, AFD (French Development Agency), World Food Programme (WFP) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) which aims to support the modernization of the African Hydromet Services at national, sub-regional and regional levels. The Africa Hydromet Program aims to realize the vision of the African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET), the African Ministerial Council for Water (AMCOW) and the Global Framework for Climate Services4 (GFCS) and to promote climate-resilient development.

Stronger incentives need to be provided for national coordination whilst concurrently continuing dialogue to merge different national mandates. Mr. Singh referred to this ambition as meeting ‘a dynamic equilibrium’.

Pitch # 3: Clim-Dev Africa

James Murombedzi presented the work of Clim-Dev Africa Initiative, which is a partnership between the AUC, ECA and AfDB. Clim-Dev aims to facilitate the uptake of Climate Information Services (CIS) and integrate CIS into development priorities.

4 www.wmo.int/gfcs

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Mr. Murombedzi noted that one of the main challenges has been the weak services that link climate information and its use for decision making. More investments needs to be put into place for a more informed analysis of the diverse types of climate information needed for decision support. Clim-Dev has also struggled with the proliferation of climate service initiatives, which tend to compete with one another rather than work together to deliver relevant demand driven services.

Pitch #4: Africa Adaptation Initiative

Greg Feig presented the Africa Adaptation Initiative (AAI) which seeks to scale up adaptation action and approaches to address loss and damage in Africa. One pillar of its programme focuses on ‘enhancing climate information services’, with four priority areas: observational infrastructure, climate information, capacity building and risk, vulnerability and loss and damage assessments. Through partnerships with the WMO and other relevant institutions, the AAI will help African countries implement the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS). There is an emphasis put on collective action to identify gaps and build potential partnerships to scale up the delivery of climate services.

Pitch #5: GFCS National and Regional Frameworks for Delivering Coordinated Climate Services

Arame Tall outlined the Global Frameworks for Climate Services (GFCSs) as a vehicle for coordination with success stories presented from Cote D’Ivoire. This workshop was noted as an opportunity to develop coherent recommendations of how to move from country to regional frameworks as a coordination mechanism. Strategies should work together to create an African programme bringing and aligning donor support to design projects with impact.

5.1 Reflections Once the pitches were presented, participants were given an opportunity to reflect on the issues raised. Some of the main discussion points included:

- there is a need to bring all end-users together, which is still lacking across the initiatives presented;

- coordination is not just needed across different institutions but also at an intra-institutional level, especially with multiple projects running across and within departments;

- one major concern is the challenge of how we sustain programmes and projects beyond their life cycle and continue to maintain momentum on climate services once the funding ends; and

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- the necessity to keep in check the proliferation of initiatives, but also the number of institutions involved in climate services.

6. Setting the scene: Introducing a common Value Chain

Approach Building on the previous presentation, this session had two main objectives: first, to build a common foundational understanding of the value chain and second to get each organisation to physically map initiatives across the value chain.

A visual value chain diagram was set up to capture ongoing initiatives, to help identify gaps, barriers and areas where further investment is needed.

6.1 The Common Value Chain The first part of the session was to discuss the shared value chain approach (see Figure 2 below) and to ensure that participants agreed with the different stakeholder categories. The participants were taken through the six stakeholders groups, which include:

I. External data providers (for e.g. Centres of Long Range Forecasts (GPCs), Regional Climate Centres (RCCs))

II. In-country data providers (National Hydro-Meteorological Services) III. Sector experts, co-producers (for e.g. Sectoral Ministerial Departments) IV. Boundary organisations / Climate Brokers (for e.g. Media, ICTs, Telecom companies,

Extension works) V. National-level users (for e.g. Rural development planners, Disaster Managers, Public

health workers) VI. Community-level users (for e.g. farmers, pastoralists)

Institutional and governance structures (not represented in the Figure 3) are overarching stakeholders across the different categories of the value chain. It was discussed that researchers, development partners and the private sector are also expected to be involved across the value chain at different scales.

6.2 Mapping Process Once there was a consensus on the value chain, participants were invited to map climate service initiatives that their institutions are contributing to across the value chain. Multiple projects were noted in more than one stakeholder group. The visual from the mapping exercise can be seen in Figure 3.

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Over the course of the next five months, all the initiatives noted across the value chain will be added to a shared database, which will be accessible to all parties.

Figure 2: Value Chain – From Climate Information Producers to End Users

Source: Winrock International and WMO (2017)

6.3 Reflections

This visual and interactive exercise was an eye-opener for most participants. Gaps were identified along with some useful insights into areas that need further investments. The reflections from the participants included:

1. The most populated set of projects are at the producer’s end, with activities becoming sparse as we move to the last mile of users. We’re still too focused on information production and not enough with user engagement.

2. The multitude of coordination mechanisms or institutional convenors in the area of weather, water and climate services in Africa is not conducive to developing a common coherent approach. Mandates needed to be clarified between the key coordination efforts and initiatives in the region to develop a clear framework for action.

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3. There is a need to better understand the impacts of the interventions. Developing and communicating success stories and lessons learned is also important for internal learning amongst climate service providers.

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Figure 3: Mapping of climate service initiatives across the value chain

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4. Intermediary organisations are needed between the national meteorological services and the diverse set of users. The use of media agencies and organisations that can help support in the translation of meteorological language to inform decision-making is still very weak.

5. Political will across Africa’s political leadership and within National Ministries is critical in ensuring the success and scaling up of climate services at the national, sub-regional and continental levels.

6. Donor coordination can play a key role to create positive incentives to build coherence for collaboration among stakeholders operating in the space of climate services. In response to this need, a working group has been dedicated to explore options for improved donor coordination on climate services in Africa.

7. There is a need for a stronger Results Based Management approach focusing on project beneficiaries, to ensure that gaps are being filled and duplications avoided.

8. The mapping is missing spatial and temporal focus, various stakeholders work on different timescales. The aim is to add these details when further information will be collated on each initiative.

9. There is a need to explore the possibility of broadening the production and use of climate knowledge beyond hydromet, and expand this across the value chain.

10. It was noted that there is too much bureaucracy at the producers and co-producers’ levels, and it is more important to focus on users to leverage downstream funding.

11. There is some confusion about how the identified institutional frameworks connect to development issues and development planning processes. This needs to be better articulated.

12. More clarity is needed to understand the effectiveness of the services in relation to improving livelihoods and building resilience.

13. National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) are currently not ranked highly in providing advanced services. Some of the key issues to consider include: o Ineffective documentation and sharing of good practices in the effective delivery

of climate services; o It is essential that NMHSs identify and articulate immediate gaps of what services

are weaker or not being effectively delivered; o Strategic plans at regional or sub-regional levels should be developed to inform

the types of investments that need to be made. 14. Beneficiaries of projects should be in the forefront of the planning and

implementation process. 15. There is a need for a feedback mechanism between and across the different

stakeholder groups.

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7. Mapping of the regional compendium of projects Building on the previous value chain mapping session, the next step was to identify and pull together climate service projects across four regional groups: West Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa and Central Africa.

The objective of the session was to help visualise ongoing climate service investment across these sub-region. The Regional Economic Centre (REC) representatives led each of the regional groups:

• ECOWAS - West Africa • IGAD - East Africa • SADC - Southern Africa • ECCAS - Central Africa

Participants were asked to note the name of project and the focal country/ countries (please see Figure 4). Future projects were also captured by some of the RECs. The images on the following page reflect this participatory exercise.

7.1 Reflections On viewing the map, participants shared their reflections on the scale and diversity of initiatives that have been captured. Some of the noted points made include:

1. Input from North Africa and IOC regional centres is important. 2. The IGAD representative highlighted that there’s a lot of fragmented investment and

activity in the sub-region and the primary challenge is coordination. 3. The SADC Regional Climate Centre were surprised by the small number of initiatives

that they could identify. Additional work needs to go into collating more information on ongoing climate services activities in the sub-region.

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Participants add ongoing projects in the West African region © GFCS

Regional mapping for Southern Africa © GFCS

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Figure 4 – Regional mapping of initiatives

8. Lost in Translation: Towards a Common Language to describe Weather, Water and Climate Services in Africa

For the final session of the first day of the workshop, Mr Youcef Ait-Chellouche and Mr. Filipe Lúcio, in tandem, led a final and highly interesting sessions dedicated to exploring the differences in the language we use to describe weather, water and climate services in Africa.

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Multiple terms are in use to describe Weather, Water and Climate Services in Africa. These terms include: weather, climate services, hydromet services, hydrological information, and so on. If we are not able to agree on a common set of definitions and use of language, how do we agree on our actions?

There are two components of climate services: adaptation and mitigation. Within the context of climate adaptation, there are different references to climate services with a need to recognise timescales: sub-seasonal, inter-annual and decadal timescales. The longer timescales are associated with mitigation.

The differing definitions of climate services include:

o Climate information which is prepared and delivered to meet user needs o Under GFCS, it’s emphasized that climate services must assist decision makers:

“Providing climate information in a way that assists decision making by individuals and organisations . . .”

o In the European context, climate service provision has an emphasis on packaging and dissemination.

o Transformation of client relevant data into products

It was concluded that the above definitions complement one another, however engaging user needs and developing services to meet that demand is crucial.

9. End user Perspective To conclude the day, Mr. Youcef Ait-Chellouche from the International Federation of the Red Cross/ Red Crescent (IFRC) made a valuable presentation emphasising that a successful climate service is provided when the delivery reaches ‘the last mile’. He discussed that the climate service process is a chain involving science, policy and communicators; the service needs to be as good as the process that produces and delivers the service. This requires partnerships across the different value chain system to ensure effective coordination. For example, IFRC need climate information to plan for their aid delivery programs in the Sahel. In this context, the science should help disaster agencies target focal areas and manage lead times in emergency responses.

Mr. Ait-Chellouche shared how early in his career there was a lot of resistance for him to speak directly to Climate Service providers; however, as a result of having acquired a better understanding of end user needs, collaborations have improved over the years with more effective planning and delivery of services.

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10. Bringing all the Pieces Together: Setting up the Regional Knowledge Management Platform (KMP)

The second day of the workshop opened with a recap from the previous day. Following this, the first session titled: ‘Establishing the Regional Knowledge Management Platform’ kicked off the day.

The objective was to discuss whether there is a need to develop a Regional Knowledge Management Platform on Weather, Water and Climate Services. This platform would be a go-to place for information on who’s doing what on climate services across the continent. Critical areas of discussion were outlined:

- Developing a shared understanding of the purpose of the platform - Articulating Expectations - Agreeing on the use of common language - Identifying who will manage or co-manage this platform - Identifying who has access to technical capacities.

10.1 Things to consider: knowledge platform To kick start this discussion, Fatema Rajabali outlined some key issues when considering developing a new KMP. Developing a KMP is not only about content provision. Several core components need to be discussed in more detail:

a) Is there an existing Climate Services platform that we can build on? b) Are there a set of audiences that the platform would be targeting (for whom) c) What are their information needs (demand-driven) d) Accessibility and usability: undertake a user needs assessments and accessibility

constraints e) Understand what their knowledge landscape looks like, so that the KMP responds to

existing information gaps f) Are we learning from others? Knowledge platforms managers are increasingly sharing

lessons learned as part of becoming more demand driven g) Sustainability: Will the KMP be funded for a limited time? Will the content be open

access?

A plenary discussion illustrated some useful insights into the challenges of developing a more collaborative knowledge management agenda.

- All projects are under pressure to show impacts with a plethora of independent data platforms and institutional websites.

- There is still a need for good quality CS information which is useful. However, not being able to manage existing CS information prevents us from collaborating.

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- Need to be clear about the main objectives of any regional platform: why we are pulling specific types of data and information together, for what purpose, and for whom.

There are already a number of existing regional platforms. In this context, identified platforms are not institutional websites, but a resource base that draws information and knowledge products from multiple credible sources. A quick google search brought up a couple of these online initiatives (see Figure 5). It was noted that the platform should build on and not duplicate existing knowledge platforms.

Figure 5: Summary of existing regional climate knowledge platforms in Africa (Source: F. Rajabali based on google search)

10.2 Participatory discussion on the Knowledge Management Platform (KPM)

Following on from the previous session, a moderated group discussions was facilitated with a specific set of questions. The table below outlines the questions and the main discussion points shared back by participants.

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Questions

Discussion points

What do we mean by a Knowledge Management Platform (KMP)?

A website that puts together all relevant information on CS. It would be a resource base that provides links to where CS regional information can be found.

Is there need for a new KPM?

- There is a need for a common regional platform, which could be established as a one stop shop for answers on climate services.

- It should however build on existing platforms targeting needs of the climate service community (needs assessment), including, supporting production of tailored knowledge for the climate service community.

Who should be the target audience of the platform?

- Target national and regional institutions to identify knowledge needs and gaps

- RECs and regional policy process staff members

- Professionals who design and develop programmes

- Professionals who work on climate services across different sectors including health, agriculture, and so on

- Stakeholders identified across the value chain Should the platform be pan-African, sub-regional or both?

The platform should focus on both geographic levels so that users can search across different scales, including at the national level.

How do we integrate existing platforms?

- Existing platforms have their own objectives, standards, and protocols of sharing information.

- There is a need to have a shared and harmonized process (like an API) so that the Africa regional platform can access information in different formats as well as develop protocols for accessing and sharing information with other existing online initiatives. This should link to existing information.

How useful is the current available range of climate services information?

- Information is contextual and useful within its own respective domain. Analysis of data has added value.

- The use of the Google search engine is useful in accessing information but it is not advisable to only use this tool. Search engines do not

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always link to the most credible, up-to-date and relevant information.

What impact should the KMP have? The KMP should create a space for CS community to: - identify weaknesses and gaps - identify common practices and lessons

learned - and therefore, identify common failures.

How do we ensure ownership?

- There should be a strong shared ownership of the platform with everyone involved in the contribution and lobby for resources to maintain it.

- The platform content can be categorized/ tagged by sector, by stakeholder groups, decision maker, user group and so on, to make the information more accessible.

How do we get buy in from stakeholders?

- We need to be sure we have a common understanding of the purpose of the platform, data sharing, and outlook coordination.

- Getting information on existing projects could be a good opportunity to initially get stakeholders involved.

What type of information is needed / useful / priority areas for knowledge management?

- Present investments on various scales (from local to national, sub-regional to regional)

- Highlight research programmes that support implementation, including climate and demand driven sectors, including GFCS as a client

- Feature information not already available on other websites that support coordination and collaboration opportunities

- Promote examples at various geographic scales on: investments across different value chain components; scales of governance; and so on.

How can pilot projects be represented on the KMP?

Success stories and failures should be included on the platform to enable learning and create a bench mark on good practice. This is an opportunity to identify good practice.

How important is it to include of indigenous knowledge?

Indigenous knowledge (IK) is important and there are a number of good case studies to share, for example from Tanzania. But IK differs from region to region and from community to community. The diversity of case studies should be captured with active involvement from universities.

Capturing monitoring and evaluation: how - We first need to identify the primary target

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do we capture impacts for further investment?

users for monitoring and evaluation information.

- Case studies can be developed to collate M&E & Learning

- The KMP can also host bottom-up information (from end users) rather than just top-down policy and practice related information.

11. Filling Gaps: collaborations to strengthen the value chain

The following session of the 2nd day focused on the diverse scales of collaboration needed to strengthen the value chain in order to effectively reach the last mile.

In small groups, made of mixed value chain stakeholders, participants were presented with nine scenarios of end users who have become casualties because of the lack of coordination from across the CS community. The scenarios focused on fisherwomen to local entrepreneurs and disaster management practitioners, to illustrate the critical importance of coordination to meet end user needs.

The images below reflect some of the scenario group work.

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In response to a scenario, participants outline coordination efforts across the CS community ©GFCS

Participants note down collaborations that are needed for an effective response ©GFCS

12. Plenary Reflection: The urgency of a Regional Collaboration Platform on Water, Weather and Climate Services

After the ‘Filling the Gaps’ group work activity and plenary, a session titled: ‘Putting the pieces of the Puzzle together’ focused on a discussion to explore how the organisations represented could actively collaborate, moving forward. The primary objective of this session was to identify 5-6 concrete next steps to further strengthen regional collaboration.

Based on their organisations priorities within the value chain and the scale of their work (from continental to local), participants were grouped to discuss collaborative entry points. Four groups were agreed upon:

1. Collaboration at the Continental to sub regional5 to national and local coordination 2. Donor co-ordination mechanisms 3. Spaces to continue dialogue for co- designing and joint funding of projects information

sharing with end users in mind 4. Open data collaboration: mainstreaming hydromet data into statistical data 5. Knowledge management platform

The discussed entry points were shared in plenary, outlining who would be involved, how they would take forward collaborative activities and recommendations for next steps. This information is detailed in Annex 3.

5 Sub-Region here refers to the Continental sub region i.e. IGAD, SADC, etc.

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13. Adoption of Common Roadmap: Implementing a Common Regional Collaboration Platform

Building on the previous discussion, this session’s objective was to get a collective consensus of action. In the plenary, participants discussed each concrete strategy for collaboration. This resulted in a Common Roadmap, which is presented in Annex 4.

Institutions represented from across the region pledged to a set of coordination efforts: from continental to sub regional to local (Please see Figure 6). At the continental level, for example, the African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET) and African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) have committed to be in the forefront of leading coordination at the continental action planning level.

At the sub-regional levels, the Regional Climate Centres and Regional Economic Commissions pledged to strengthen their institutional ties and, in turn, collaboratively define and develop functional Regional Frameworks for Climate Services as effective platforms to bridge the gap between climate science and user needs in each sub-region.

At the national level, National Meteorological and Hydrological Services and other critical government stakeholders affirmed their support to establish their National Framework on Climate Services (NFCS) as coordination platforms to scale up the delivery of weather, water and climate services for the use of national and local policy-makers and vulnerable communities alike. NCFSs will then be mainstreamed into National Determined Contributions (NDCs), sectoral action plans and other relevant adaptation planning processes at national and sub-national levels. Additionally, a strong recommendation emanated from the floor to encourage governments to allocate budget lines to develop and implement their NFCS.

Finally, participants decided that a Regional Knowledge Management Platform will be established and operated by ACMAD, with support from various development partners. This platform will serve as a go-to place for information on who is doing what on weather, water and climate services in Africa.

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Figure 6: Proposed Institutional Framework for Coordination on Weather, Water and Climate Services in Africa

14. Closing Panel: Keeping the dialogue going for joint climate services implementation

The high attendance from all of the key operational, coordinating and funding institutions operating in the space of climate services in Africa was itself a very strong indicator that there is a real desire for an effort towards achieving better coordination and effectiveness of climate services across Africa to meaningfully support adaptive resilience. Only through such enhanced coordination can the true societal value of climate science be obtained, and climate knowledge be meaningfully linked with action for resilience in Africa, which can have a positive impact for vulnerable communities and decision makers.

The concluding remarks by the organising committee reflected what all the participants had achieved over the interactive two-day workshop. Firstly, key regional stakeholders working on climate services had convened and shared their knowledge to develop a common and more in depth understanding of ongoing initiatives, mutual roles and impact. Secondly, a common roadmap was defined with a set of recommendations of how to move from national to regional frameworks as a drive to improve coordination mechanisms.

This road map will now constitute the start of a joint implementation by stakeholders in the African climate services community. The outlined strategic set of activities will move forward

National National Framework for Climate Services

Sub-Regional Regional Frameworks

for Climate Services

Continental Africa Union Commission (AMCOMET, with

AMCOW and AMCEN) & ACMAD

Regional Economic Commissions (RECs)

Users Enablers & Intermediaires

Regional Climate Centers (RCCs) + River

Basin Organizations (RBOs)

NMHSs

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the contribution of weather, water and climate information in development planning focusing across continental, sub-regional, national to local coordination.

With these achievements in mind, this workshop was deemed a success with strong interest from participants and organisers to keep this community of practice connected. Other regional events over 2017-2018 will create opportune spaces for further engagement and dialogue to continue the momentum of this critical work. This integration of a more strengthened and integrated climate services programs is considered an important step in achieving 2030 and 2063 African targets, whilst also effectively supporting end users to build adaptive resilience.

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Annex 1: Agenda of the Workshop Day 1: Mapping stakeholders & current initiatives on Weather, Water, Climate Services in Africa

Time Session Session Outline Chair ` Registration 9.00 – 9.40

Opening Ceremony: Opening speech by Government representative Vote of Thanks Opening remarks by Meeting Organizers

Senegal Ministry of Tourism and Air Transport F. Lúcio, GFCS J. Mukabana, WMO J. Murombedzi, ACPC A. Dia, UNDP P. Singh, WB J. Kabyemera, AfDB

9.40 - 10.00

Keynote: An urgent call for collaboration among partners in the region – The 5 GFCS Pillars and the value chain for delivering climate services at large scale in Africa

F. Lúcio, GFCS

10.00 -10.40

Morning Ice-breaker:

Who’s who in African climate services?

A.Tall, GFCS

10.40 – 11.15

Coffee Break GROUP PHOTOGRAPHY

11.15 – 12.15

Framing coordination in Africa: The great partnerships for Weather, Water and Climate Services in the region

Pitch # 1: AMCOMET and the Integrated African Strategy on Meteorology Weather and Climate Services- J. Wilson Pitch # 2: The Africa Hydromet program (P. Singh.) Pitch # 3: Clim-Dev Africa (J. Murombedzi) Pitch #4: Africa

Moderator: J. Kabyemera, AfDB

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Adaptation Initiative (Gregor Feig) Pitch # 5: GFCS National and Regional Frameworks for Delivering Coordinated climate services (A. Tall)

12.15-13.15

Setting the scene: Introducing the Value Chain

What is our common value chain approach?

A. Tall, GFCS

Participatory Mapping activity: Mapping the Value Chain

Mapping yourself along the value chain for climate services: Each organization physically maps its current contribution to the value chain to achieve coordinated and impactful climate services.

Bill Leathes, UKMO Fatema Rajabali, GFCS

13.15-14.00

LUNCH BREAK

14.00 – 15.00

MARKETPLACE: Post-lunch Marketplace: Each organization has a chance to present its portfolio of projects VIDEO: Cote d’Ivoire’s National Framework for Climate Services

15.00 – 16.00

Afternoon regional working groups:

Partners put their projects together region by region

RECs

16.00 – 16.40

Plenary Restitution of Regional WGs

Presentation of the regional compendium of projects Discussion of gaps and refection

J. Mukabana, AMCOMET

16.40 – 17.15

Lost in Translation: Towards a Common Language/branding to describe Weather, Water and Climate Services in Africa

Multiple descriptions are in use to describe W, W and CSs in Africa – how do we agree in action if we cannot agree in language?

F. Lúcio, GFCS Y. Ait-Chellouche, IFRC

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Discussion of a common branding for our work. User perception of our language debate

17.15 – 17.30

Coffee Break

18.15 Team building: Beach volleyball game

Day 2: Enhancing Collaboration in the Region - Towards A Common Roadmap

Time Session Session Outline Chair 9.00 – 9.40

Morning Plenary:

Recap of Day 1 Presentation of Africa-wide map of current climate services projects and initiatives

Rapporteurs F. Rajabali, GFCS

9.40-10.40

Bringing all the Pieces Together #1: Setting up the Regional Knowledge Management Platform on Weather, Water and Climate services in Africa: A go-to place for information on who’s doing what on climate services in the continent

Presentation of existing knowledge management platforms on climate services in Africa Followed by Moderated discussion: What we mean by a knowledge management platform, what would this tool look like, who is going to manage or co-manage this platform? Who will pay for it?

F. Rajabali, GFCS Moderator: J.Wilson, AMCOMET J. Murombedzi, ACPC

10.40 – 11.00

Coffee Break

11.00 – 12.00

Bringing all the Pieces Together #2: Filling Gaps in the Value Chain - Reaching the last Mile: What are needed collaborations to Strengthen

In small groups of mixed value chain stakeholders (check WG list), participants are presented with narratives of end users who could use climate information and act on it, but do not because of the

A. Tall F. Rajabali, GFCS WG chairs:

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the value chain

gaps in the value chain.

12.00 – 13.00

Plenary Reflection: The urgency of a Regional Coordination Platform on Water, Weather and Climate Services Interactive Session

Discussion of How we can all begin or continue to actively collaborate in co-developing future projects? Also, what are tools for streamlining our agreed collaboration at regional and national levels? Participants prioritize 5-6 strategies to take forward Coordination

A. Dia, UNDP JP Gaudechoux, WMO

13.00 – 14.00

Lunch Break

14.00 – 15.00

Afternoon Working groups: Towards a Regional Coordination Platform on Water, Weather and Climate services in Africa

In small groups, participants discuss each concrete Strategy for Collaboration that emerged from the plenary reflection, identify challenges and define mitigation strategies to implement them

JP Gaudechoux, WMO Working Group chairs

15.00 – 16.00

Plenary Restitution

Each group reports back on its strategy for implementing a component of the Regional Coordination Platform Emergence of a

Moderator: J. Kabyemera, AfDB

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Common Roadmap

16.00 – 16.40

Overcoming challenges to Coordinated Delivery of Climate Services in Africa: A Roadmap

Presentation of the Roadmap Discussion and inputs from participants

F. Lúcio, A. Tall, GFCS

16.40 – 17.15

Closing Panel: Keeping the dialogue going Nurturing Collaborations for joint climate services implementation at regional/ national levels

Adoption of Common Roadmap Next steps for implementing the Regional Coordination Platform

J. Mukabana, AMCOMET F. Denton, ACPC A. Dia, UNDP P. Singh, World Bank J. Kabyemera, AfDB

End of the Workshop

18.00 Buses Depart back for Dakar

Annex 2: Participants List

Regional Stakeholder Coordination Workshop

Participant List

Name Participant Bios

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Alexis Christian Ewolo NHMS

Aliou Dia UNDP

Alioune Kaere GFCS

Amos Makarau NHMS

Anne Elizabeth Leclerc IFRC

Arame Tall GFCS Arlindo Oliva Meque NHMS

Ayub Mwadali Shaka NHMS

Bakalilou DIABY PAM

Benjamin Lamptey ACMAD

Bill Leathes UKMO

Bougonou K. Djeri-Alassani ECOWAS

Brad Garanganga SADC CSC

Cheikh Kane Partners for resilience

Cherif Diop ANACIM

Corentin Cartuyvels OCHA

Daouda Konate NHMS Désiré Ndemezagoa Backotta ECCAS

Dieudonné Goudou AFDB Djibrilla Ariaboncana Maiga NHMS

Dominique Kuitsouc ECCAS

Dula Shanko Lebeta NHMS Eleonor Marmefeldt SMHI Emilio Barisano EUMETSAT Excellent Hachileka UNDP

Camille Touze FAO Fatema Rajabali GFCS Filipe Lúcio WMO Gregor Feig AAI Henry Rene Diouf UNDP

Innocent Nzeyimana WHO

Ishyaku Ibrahim NHMS James Kinyangi AfDB

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James Murombedzi ACPC

Jay Wilson WMO-AMCOMET Jean Baptiste Migraine WB Jean Ngamini UNDP CIRDA team

Jerome Tondoh WASCAL Jim Hansen CGIAR-CCAFS John Faragher UKMO

Jolamu L. Nkhokwe NHMS

Jolly Wasambo AUC

Jörg Helmschrot SASSCAL

Joseph Mukabana WMO

Jean Paul Gaudechoux WMO

Julia Bradley-Cook USAID

Justus Kabyemera AfDB

Magueye Marame Ndao NHMS

Makoto Suwa WB

Miguel Trillo ACP-EU Climate Services Programme

Moges Abreham UNDP

Mohammed Ibrahim ECOWAS

Mohammed Sadeck Boulahya ACP-EU Climate Services Programme

Naziha El Moussaoui IFRC

Ousmane Ndiaye NHMS

Pascal Yaka Chair of WMO RA1/Climate Services Working Group

Patrick Vercammen DFID

Prashant Singh WB

Rosalind West DfiD

Sarah Emerald Osimah NHMS

Seydou Traore AGHRYMET

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Sibonelo Mbanjwa South Africa's NFCS

Stephen Yaokuma Komla NHMS

Tufa Dinku ENACTS

Youcef Ait-Chellouche IFRC

Zachary Atheru ICPAC

Yacine Fall PAM

Thibaut Rannou AFD

Annex 3: Entry point for collaborative work on Climate Services

Collaboration at the continental – sub regional6 to national and local coordination

Who: Regional (AU Ministerial Conferences/AMCOMET/STCs), Sub-regional (RECs/RCCs), National (NMHSs) and Local or Common plans of action/strategies on climate services

6 Sub-Region here refers to the Continental sub region i.e. IGAD, SADC, etc.

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How:

- Develop sub-regional level Action Plans to establish Regional Frameworks for Climate Services and mobilize resources

- At the regional level through AMCOMET and ACMAD, strengthen institutional governance frameworks, coordinate climate service delivery in Africa.

- Coordinate implementation of the integrated African strategy on meteorology (Weather and Climate Services), a continental contribution to the implementation of GFCS in Africa.

Recommendations:

- Strengthen collaborations with AMCEN and AMCOW and related ministerial conferences

- At the Sub-regional level through RECs and RCCs, cascade the regional level action plan to sub-regional frameworks on climate services in collaboration with RECs; RCCs, NMHSs and other stakeholders

- Strengthen links to UNECA

Donor coordination mechanisms

Who:

Donors / development partners (USAID, DfID, AFD, World Bank, and so on) How: Stronger coordination efforts are needed amongst donors. Some areas of strengthening include:

- The WMO/World Bank development partner roundtable need to create a stronger link with the AU, as well other development banks.

- A bottom up donor coordination peer review and evaluation group could be a useful addition

- There is a need to include and address individual activities on the donor side, including bilateral arrangements

Recommendations:

- There is a donor coordination round table discussion in September 2017 hosted in Geneva. This could be a good space to continue to drive improved coordination mechanisms on climate services.

Spaces to continue dialogue: co-designing joint funding of projects information sharing with end users in mind

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Who: Donors/ Development planner, government stakeholders, private sector, end users across difference scales How/ Recommendations:

- Develop an ongoing process to share information, relevant expertise and to bring in the users’ perspectives.

- Replicating this meeting as a side meeting at a bigger international for a like COPs or other thematic events.

- Commit to an annual coordination meeting to review progress, lessons learned and developing new progress markers.

- In the meantime within each sub-regional community, continue to have internal discussions on improving coordination.

- Institutional vehicles need to be established or strengthened to ensure useful liaisons between the Climate Science providers, intermediaries and end users.

- Create opportunities to develop joint designs of projects.

Open data collaboration: mainstreaming hydromet data into statistical data

Who: NMHSs, Development Partners How:

- First there is a necessary need to acquire historical data - The reduced funding of NMHS makes the data generation a problem, including

collating historical data. Further financial support is required to take this forward. - NMHS is now expected to generate a revenue. It is key to advocate that the sale of

data should remain at a low cost, if not stay free. - There is a growing private sector competition. How much assurance is there of the

credibility and integrity of the quality of the data and forecasts?

Recommendations:

- Improve legislation to enhance data sharing. - Donors need to reinforce NMHS stations to enhance stations and quality, including

sharing of data at a low cost. - Stronger open data policy - there is a need to integrate the WB and other projects

policies.

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Knowledge Management Platform

Who: - AMCAD, GFCS, ACPC (Clim-Dev), other CS stakeholders

How/ Recommendations:

- It is important that it is a resource pool that also serves as a decision support tool - Collate adequate information of climate service initiatives based on GFCS platform

template - AMCAD to lead on the development of the knowledge platform with capacity

support from GFCS and Clim-Dev Africa - Establish linkages across existing platforms serving the region. - Identify partners who can work together to bring together relevant content and

create a useful user interface.

Annex 4: Common Road Map

1. Continental - regional / National to Local Coordination: Definition of Common Plans of Action / Strategies on Climate Services & Agreeing on an Institutional Framework to Coordinate Climate Services Delivery in Africa

WHAT (priority action)

HOW (strategy for implementation /

overcoming obstacles)

WHO (Lead

Institution / Responsible /

Contact)

WHEN? short: 2017-18

medium: 2019-20 long-term: > 2020 ST MT LT

Continental • AUC-AMCOMET • ACMAD

• Promote GFCS implementation at continental scale

Coordinate implementation of the Integrated African Strategy on Meteorology (Weather and Climate) as a continental contribution to the implementation of the GFCS in Africa • Initiate discussion at AU level to

Strengthen collaboration between AMCOMET, AMCEN and AMCOW and related ministerial conferences, ensuring trickling down to various initiatives

AMCOMET & ACMAD AMCOMET

X X

Sub-Regional • Develop a sub-regional level Regional X X

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• RECS (with involvement of users, policy, regional stakeholders, etc.)

• RCCs (with involvement of research, science stakeholders, etc.)

• RBOs (with involvement of river basin management authorities and local stakeholders

action plan to establish Regional Frameworks for Climate Services (defined and led by RCCs and RECs as per the needs and realities of each sub-region)

• Strengthen link between RCCs, RBOs and RECs

• Encourage member states to step up their implementation of National Frameworks for Climate Services - NFCS and sharing of information about project activities at national level

• Integrate RBOs to define the scope of user needs at basin scales

Economic Commissions (IGAD, SADC, ECCAS, ECOWAS) Regional Climate Centers/Institutions in process of becoming RCCs (ICPAC, SADC-CSC, ECCAS RCC, AGRHYMET) River Basin Organizations (Niger Basin, Volta Basin, Congo Basin, Zambezi Basin, Nile Basin, Limpopo Basin)

National • NMHSs • Users • Intermediaries • Development

Partners

• Develop a National Action / Strategic Plans to establish and/or implement a National Framework for Climate Services bringing together NMHSs, users, science, policy, research, donors and intermediaries to step up climate service delivery for national/local users

• Mainstream climate services into national adaptation planning process (i.e., NDCs, sustainable development plans, NAPs, etc.)

National governments (NMHSs, Finance & Planning, Line Ministries in charge of climate-vulnerable sectors), Development partners

X X

2. Donor Cooperation Mechanism

WHAT (priority action)

HOW (strategy for

implementation /

WHO (Lead Institution /

Responsible / Contact)

WHEN? short: 2017-18

medium: 2019-20

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overcoming obstacles) long-term: > 2020 ST MT LT

Build on existing donor coordination mechanism for information exchange

• Global development partners roundtable (planned for Sept 2017, yearly)

• GFCS-PAC meetings • AU: AMCOMET,

AMCEN and AMCOW

• AMCOMET Africa Hydromet Forum in Sept 2017

• AAI Meeting in June 2017

• From 2018 onwards, explore possibility of having a continental level donor roundtable

• WMO & World Bank • GFCS • AMCOMET • Africa Adaptation

Initiative (AAI) • WMO

X X X

Contribute to the Regional Knowledge Management (KM) Platform

Providing information on current and future projects and activities, donors and implementing agencies, level of funding and timelines

All donors and development partners (as soon as regional KM platform is establishedl)

X X

Complementary project design (building on what others are doing, learning from lessons of existing/past projects)

Consult Regional KM platform in the design and planning for new projects

All donors and development partners (as soon as regional KM platform is operational)

X

Develop a robust monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework: Assess impact and take stock of impact of investments in Climate services in Africa

Integrating M&E into each new project designed to ensure appropriate assessment of the impact and return on climate service investments, also ensuring linkage with global M&E good practice on weather, water and climate services

ACPC ClimDev WMO GFCS IFRC All Partners

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3. Spaces for coordination: Continuing the dialogue for co-design

WHAT (priority action)

HOW (strategy for implementation /

overcoming obstacles)

WHO (Lead

Institution / Responsible /

Contact)

WHEN? short: 2017-18

medium: 2019-20 long-term: > 2020

ST MT ST Regular Global/Africa-wide meetings to continue dialogue/ enhance coordination and co-designing of new projects

Organize annual side meetings to COP, WB Spring Meetings, AFDB Annual Meetings, CCDA, Annual AMCOMET-Africa Hydromet Forum, among others

UNECA/ACPC with AMCOMET & Development partners

X X X

Initiate mechanisms for regular dialogue, information sharing and coordination within RECs

RECs to convene side meetings to RCOFs to open a dialogue space/user interface platform, and facilitate information sharing and coordination among regional users and climate science community IFRC to facilitate and contribute to the design and implementation of specific activities such as RCOFs, training and reflecting user needs in the frameworks

RECs With RCCs & RBOs IFRC

X X X

Bring end-user voice into climate services development and coordination

Support national governments and RECs to:

• Implement Regional / National Frameworks for Climate Services with key stakeholders

• Setup user interface platforms at regional/ national/local levels with the aim to:

o Identify and engage institutions that can articulate the voice of specific categories of end users at continental and sub-regional scale.

o Identify and engage research communities that are working in the space between climate services and those

WMO GFCS IFRC

X X X

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communities. o For each priority sector,

enlist a champion individual or institution who is working on research and innovation on the demand/use side of climate services, to serve as a liaison with sector-focused climate services research and implementation communities..

4. Regional Knowledge Management Platform: A go-to place for information on who is doing what, Analysis and Decision Support for Action on Weather, Water and Climate Services in Africa

WHAT (priority action)

HOW (strategy for implementation /

overcoming obstacles)

WHO (Lead

Institution / Responsible /

Contact)

WHEN? short: 2017-18

medium: 2019-20 long-term: > 2020

ST MT ST Establishment of Regional knowledge Management Platform Purpose: A Go-to place for information + Decision Support Tool that can be used by donors, planners, etc. to plan their activities in weather, water and climate services, i.e., it is a tool for coordination Initial content: Project information about weather, water and climate services based on the GFCS template

Develop a detailed concept note and work plan for the implementation of the Africa Regional Knowledge Platform on Weather, Water and Climate Services (outcome of the Saly coordination meeting) Timeline: July 2017

ACMAD & UNECA/ACPC With support from WMO (GFCS and AMCOMET)

X

Inventory of existing Knowledge Management Platforms building on ongoing efforts Timeline: Next CCDA – October 2017

UNECA/ACPC X

Costing ACMAD & UNECA/ACPC With support from WMO GFCS

X Inventory of project files: current and future projects and activities including donors and implementing agencies / partners, as well as level of funding and timelines. It should also include target productive sectors and communities.

X

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Intent: • Better linkages

among donors • Allow relevant

actors to identify who they should work with

• Allow actors to understand the demand on the continent

• Optimise resources utilization, minimize duplication of efforts

• To learn about regional weather and climate service activities

Design and operationalize interactive platform

and UNDP

X X

Population and maintenance X X X Communication and awareness X X ACMAD hosts platform of platforms X X X GFCS/UNDP support to establishment X X ACMAD to secure resources for continued operation and maintenance of Regional KMP

ACMAD & UNECA/ACPC, with support from AfDB (ClimDev Phase 2)

X X X

Enable AUC endorsement and continued use of the ACMAD hosted Regional KMP

ACMAD & AMCOMET

X X X