PARTNERSIPS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE WMO COMMUNITY

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Mary Power

Director Resource Mobilization Office Development Co-operation and Regional Activities

TECO – 2010 Helsinki 30 Aug – 1 Sept 1

Development Support Mechanisms

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Regular budget supported activities;

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WMO Voluntary Cooperation Programme (VCP);

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WMO Programme and Fund for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs)

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Major Trust Fund supported development activities

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Emergency Assistance Fund

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Fellowship Fund

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Member to member bi-lateral assistance

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DEVELOPMENT FOCUS AREAS 1. Resource mobilisation 2. Technical and advisory support for Regional and National NMHS development and modernisation projects 3. Demonstration of the value of THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES OF NMHSs for economic development: • • Food security (Agricultural Met.) Disaster Risk Reductions (severe weather and climate events, drought and flood prediction and management) • Climate variability and climate change 4. Strategic partnerships with development agencies (EU, WB, UNDP, ISDR…) and other organisations (AU, SADC, etc…) 5. Education and Training Programme (Long Terms (Degree level) and Short Terms Fellowships and training workshops 6. Advocacy of role and value of NMHSs to government authorities.

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DRA DEPARTMENT Resource Mobilization Office (crosscutting WMO) Office for the LDCs and Regional Coordination (cc) WMO Regional Office for Africa WMO Regional Office for Asia & SW Pacific WMO Regional Office for Americas WMO Regional Office for Europe WMO Office for NCWA WMO Office for ESA WMO Office for West Asia WMO Office for SW Pacific WMO Office for S America WMO Office for NCAC

Brazil Project Office Mexico Project Office

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WMO REGIONAL OFFICES

UN HQ Costa Rica Paraguay EU Geneva Bahrain Nigeria Kenya Samoa 4/27/2020 5

Voluntary Cooperation Programme

used mainly for rapid response for minor interventions

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• • • Short-term fellowships Expert services • Equipment maintenance , upgrades and replacement Communications • high priority programmes • • • • • • GTS Climatology and Climate databases Telecommunications TV Presentation Systems Operational hydrology activities; Surface and upper-air stations ; 4/27/2020 6

Voluntary Cooperation Programme

VCP Mechanisms

• VCP (Trust) Fund (VCP-F) • VCP Coordinated Equipment and Services

(VCP-ES)

• Emergency Assistance Fund (EAF)

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Activity Area

Project Development Activities VCP spares/shipping of equipment Expert services Short-term fellowships

Table- 4 VCP(F) Expenditure 2006-9 (USD) 2006

1,480 40,954

2007

170 14,013 45,339

2008

147,267 16,528 106,570

2009

34,648 281,782 33,342 133,530 Group Training Activities TCDC activities Improvement of GTS Improvement of upper-air observing systems Upper-air stations & GCOS Improvement of GDPS Support to CLICOM & climatological activities Mitigation of natural disasters Emergency disaster assistance ACMAD EAMAC Operational hydrology activities Internet capabilities Long-term fellowships Support to LDCs Training activities by ETR VCP Management

Total

14,852 5,846 4,065 2,810 13,328 6,427 8,705 4,462 59,316 22,643 7,230 101,553 585 79 1,682 50,000 1,229 20,999 3,238 28,688 4,490 18,851 38,472 13,916 6,257

98,467 307,210 341,696 564,173

1.5 M USD

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Requesting Country Bolivia Table 6 - VCP Coordinated Projects supported in 2009 Project

WCP4/1

Focus Eritrea Uganda Kazakhstan Armenia (08) Kazakhstan (08) Namibia (07) Paraguay (06) Belarus Guatemala / El Salvador (06) Guinea

TE/EX/1 WCP4/1 HY3/1/2 HY5/1/1 HY3/1/2 WCP4/1 WCP/4/1/1 OB/3/1/1 OB/2/2/1 OB/1/2/6 Improvement of medium range and seasonal forecasts (DARE project) Expert services for training of local staff on the maintenance of the NOAA receiver and operation of the receiving system. Strengthen climate data rescue, management and metadata Provision and installation of hydrology workstation. Provision and installation of hydrology workstation New version of CLIWARE Provision and installation of hydrology workstation Strengthen climate data rescue, management and metadata Improvement of medium range and seasonal forecasts (DARE project) Provision of Alisa workstation, installation and training at NMHS AWS: Hydrometeorological stations for flood forecasting; 7 to Guatemala and 2 for El Salvador

Kazakhstan Mauritius St. Lucia Togo

HY/3/1/2 OB/2/3/1 WCP/4/1/1 Rehabilitation of Upper Air Station: Provision of hydrogen generator, radiosondes and training; implemented with the assistance of GCOS Provision of automated work station for hydrological forecaster to Kazakhstan Provision of about 800 Radio Sondes observations in the south-West Indian Ocean for 2 years duration Refurbishing and upgrading of AWS network Meteorological and climate data rescue and data management

Supporting country

NOAA/NWS Kenya Met Service and VCP TF NOAA/NWS Roshydromet Roshydromet Roshydromet NOAA/NWS NOAA/NWS Roshydromet Spain NOAA / NWS, Spain and GCOS Roshydromet GCOS UK Programme of Cooperation for NMSs of West African countries funded by Spain 9

VCP – become a recipient / partner

Info on funds VCP requests 4/27/2020 Request documents 10

Emergency Assistance Fund

Table 2 - Emergency Assistance requests supported during 2009

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Bangladesh 08 Haiti 08** Seychelles 08 Yemen 08 Tonga Samoa

Rehabilitation of the Meteorological Networks: Provision of two AWS fully equipped to operate as synoptic weather stations in these countries Restore fully destroyed Niuatoputapu Meteorological Station and upgrade earthquake and tsunami Early Warning System Computers communications and support equipment essentially needed for Earthquake and Tsunami monitoring VCP(F) and VCP Emergency Assistance Fund NOAA / NWS, VCP EAF New Zealand Under discussion

Disaster Assistance Fund for Meteorological and Hydrological Services post event to re establish essential services.

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Value of Member to Member Bi-lateral Assistance and VCP Contributions 2009

Table 7 - Total VCP Contributions in 2009 (USD) Member VCP(F) VCP(ES) Bi-Lateral Total E&S F&T Australia Canada China Finland France Germany Ireland Japan Maldives Mauritius Norway Rep Korea Spain Switzerland UK USA

50,000 10,000 9,555 91,000 10,000 1,460 70,000 27,700 147,700 7343 4,479 105,000 243,500 9,734 71,000 654,912 600,500 710,000 768,500 96,079 519,758 26,765 814,637 500,060 845,407 285,080 250,000 212,500 292,532 189,892 729,628

798,200 710,000 10,000 775,843 945,983 804,838 9,555 446,000 10,000 1,460 70,000 240,200 562,797 9,734 1,075,529 1,884,600

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Total 269,715 1,243,308 4,036,299 2,801,039 8,354,739

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REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES

Central SE Caucus SE EUROPE SIDS CARIBBEAN IGAD W AFRICA Lake Victoria ICPAC IBERO AMERICA SADC & E AFRICA SIDS PACIFIC

20M USD

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Many smaller single country projects also

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RESOURCE MOBILISING

Partnership with European Commission, WB, AfDB, IDB, various ODA directly or through the national NMHS (Spain, Finland, UK, USA, Japan, Korea, Italy, Saudi Arabia, China, Russia, etc) Funding agency priorities related to NMHSs:

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Disaster management/early warning

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Adaptation to climate change Food production, energy, health Advocacy of NMHSs for donors, governments & regional organisations with respect to national funding sources (GEF, ACP, WB etc)

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Challenges

• Infrastructure funding, especially upper air obs is difficult to secure – need to find an innovative solution to upper air consumables.

• WMO capacity to review equipment procurement requests and tender documents is severely constrained.

• Absorptive capacity of some DCs and LDCs to participate to regional projects cana be an issue.

• Project management resources within WMO need strengthening WMO Response • Institutionalising new project management and risk management framework • Project Management DataBase • Dedicated project management staff – reassignment of positions, secondments and JPO.

• Exploration of concept of “Volunteerism” within WMO (cf Engineers without Borders) for technical assistance and emergency response with CBS and some members.

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Challenges

• Programmatic Approach – multi year / multi country programmes are the optimal situation in terms of extra-budgetary support for NMHSs, rather than one time project funding and preferably in respect of regional development programmes • current situation is a mix of project and programmatic funding with the trend still being towards project support but increasingly we are securing regional multi-annual programmes.

WMO Response • WMO is seeking accreditation as Multi-lateral Implementing Agency with the Adaptation Fund (and GEF) and is currently in discussions with the AF Review Board.

• WMO is encouraging donors and partners to replicate some of the models we have established such as with Spain and Finland (multi country/multi-year support to projects in Africa and other regions.

• Member countries to “bundle” assistance to and through WMO (as per US) for better tracking and management and coordination other donors – more coordination among donor members – IPM etc.

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Thank You

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