Meeting on the Implementation Coordination of the GFCS (29 September to 1 October 2014, WMO, Geneva)
Information Matrix on Ongoing and Planned Initiatives in Selected Countries
(based on completed templates received from donors and partner organizations)
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
CSIS
RMP
CD
UIP
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
Africa
Burkina
Faso
Niger
Mainstreaming
Disaster Reduction
in Burkina Faso
World Bank
CONASUR
$ 1.26 millions of
which funding for
climate 60K
3+ years, tbd
Strengthening
climate
information and
early warning
systems (EWS) for
climate resilient
development and
adaptation to
climate change’&
‘Strengthening
Adaptation
Capacities and
Reducing the
Vulnerability to
Climate Change in
Burkina Faso
UNDP
National
Meteorological
and Hydrological
Services
and
Ministries/Depar
tments
of
Agriculture,
Water resources,
Disaster
Management
and
Environment.
$ 6.9 millions for
2 projects (not all
funding for
climate services).
4 years
See website:
http://www.u
ndpalm.org/proje
cts/ldcf-ewsburkina-faso;
http://www.
undpalm.org/proje
cts/ldcfadaptativecapacityburkina-faso
Enhancing National
Climate Services
(ENACTS)
International
Research
Institute for
Climate and
Society (IRI)
Integrated
Information
System for Flood
Risk Reduction in
Niger
UNITAR/UNOSAT
National
Mechanism for
the Prevention
and
Management of
Disasters and
Food Crises
(DNPGCCA),
Niger National
Meteorological
Agency,
Aghrymet, Niger
Basin Authority
$ 250,000
covered by UNDP
and
UNITAR/UNOSAT
As per
contract
terms of
reference
(i) Strengthening CONASUR as an efficient coordinating center for DRM in Burkina, (ii)
Devising an early warning system, (iii) Capacity building for response institutions, and
(iv) Development of micro-projects
Build and strengthen the observing and forecasting system. Improve communication
and types/formats of available information
Provide reliable and readily accessible climate data at high resolution to decision
makers in Africa.
Deliver robust climate data, targeted information products and training specifically
relevant to user needs:
- Integrate local observations and global monitoring data to improve climate data
coverage and spatial resolution
- Gain insight from decision makers on their climate information needs
- Develop user-specific training and information products on how to interpret climate
information for policy making and implementation
The aim of this pilot project is to develop practices and decision support tools for
understand the flood-related risk in the region of Niamey. Benefits are operational and
near real time early warning system for flood monitoring (satellite imagery based and
computer modelling based) providing decision makers with information needed to
effectively manage situation and if need be provide relief support.
 Implementation of a GIS for flood analysis and flood management practices, taking
into account of the available tools.
 Merging available terrain data (DEM, topographical surveys, etc.)
 Assessment of flood risk on the pilot area of Niamey: historical data, analysis of
hazard and vulnerability, socio-economic impact following scenarios of flood events
with different return period.
 Regional Flood Early Warning and Monitoring System
 Setting alert thresholds with local communities, based on multi-temporal analysis of
rainfall data and satellite images and developing remote surveying and alerting
1
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
(ABN), Namey
University and
others.
Objectives








Burkina
Faso and
Niger
Burkna
Faso,
Ghana,
Climate
Information
Development and
Forecasting Project
(PDIPC)
PPCR
(implemented
through AfDB)
Niger Ministry of
Transport
$13 million
Scaling up
Community-Based
Adaptation (CBA)
in Niger&
Implementing
NAPA priority
interventions to
build resilience and
adaptive capacity
of the agriculture
sector to climate
change in Niger
UNDP
National
Meteorological
and Hydrological
Services
of
Niger,
Ministries/Depar
tments
of
Agriculture,
Water resources,
Disaster
Management
and
Environment.
$ 7.4 millions for
2 projects (not all
funding for
climate services).
GFCS: Adaptation
and Disaster Risk
Reduction in Africa
Metagri OPS
Scaling up climate
information
services to farmers
Norway and
Greece,
WMO
CHF 208,500
CGIAR research
program on
Climate Change,
$ 487,000 CGIAR
funds through
CCAFS (2015)
See PPCR
website:
(https://www
.climateinves
tmentfunds.o
rg/cifnet/?q=
country/niger
)
See project
weblinks:http
://www.undp
alm.org/proje
cts/spacommunitybasedadaptationniger;
http://www.
undpalm.org/reso
urces/prodoc
s/nigerprodocimplementing
-napapriorityinterventions
-agriculturalsectorclimate
4 years
2013-2015
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
CSIS
RMP
CD
UIP
X
X
X
X
X
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
procedures.
Assessment of needs required for the development of hydrodynamic tools for flood
modelling.
Real-time monitoring of rainfall and flood data from satellite and production of maps
at Niger River basin scale.
Real-time mapping of flood inundation over the pilot area in Niamey region.
Conducting workshops to strengthen the understanding of risk to flood, impacts of
climate change, their relationships and adaptation measures in the developing areas.
Strengthening the operating procedures of Nigerian institutions involved in crisis
management
Review / Preparation of emergency plans on the pilot area of Niamey
Evaluation of investment needed to upgrade the existing infrastructures
Developing a Web platform accessible to all partners and in-country figures, which
integrate field data, modelling outputs and satellite based analysis.
To strengthen the population’s resilience to climate change by mainstreaming climate
information in the planning and implementation of development actions. The PDIPC
project will cover all 235 district councils in Niger’s eight (8) regions. The project’s main
expected outputs are: (i) development and dissemination of climate scenarios and
products to end users, (ii) capacity building for mainstreaming climate products in
development actions, (iii) preparation of a vulnerability map of agro-pastoral activities
in Niger’s district councils, and (iv) scaling up the early warning system (EWS) to make it
multi-hazard.
Effective climate risk information and management tools supplied and adopted by
community leaders, extension services and community organizations (CBOs and NGOs)
to support the achievement of climate resilient economies in vulnerable communes of
Maradi. Implementation of locally-designed climate-resilient livelihoods options to build
the socio-economic resilience of target communities.
X
X
X
X
Resilience of food production systems and/or food in secure communities enhanced in
the face of climate change. Institutional capacity of the agricultural sector enhanced,
including information and extension services to respond to climate change, including
variability.
Farmers and agricultural communities make informed on-farm operational decisions
based on climate and weather information
This 3-country study (Senegal, Burkina Faso, Ghana) has piloted climate services, and a
range of climate-smart agriculture practices, with rural communities at sites in each
country. The work in Senegal has scaled up through a combination of agricultural
2
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Senegal
in West Africa (IT,
rural radio, value
chains, in 3
countries)
Burkina
Faso,
Ghana,
Mali,
Senegal
Capacitating
African
Smallholders with
Climate Advisories
and Insurance
Development
(CASCAID)
Agriculture and
Food Security
(CCAFS), Agence
National de
l’Aviation Civile
et de la
Météorologie
(ANACIM,
Senegal), Institut
de
l’Environnement
et de Recherches
Agricoles
(Burkina Faso)
CCAFS,
ICRISAT; ICRAF;
IRI; U. Reading;
NHMS and NARS
of Burkina Faso,
Ghana, Mali,
Senegal;
AGRHYMETRegio
nal Centre; Univ
Ghana; MANOBI
S.A.
Burkina
Faso, Mali,
Mauritania,
Niger,
Senegal
Enhancing
coordinated
institutional
frameworks for the
provision,
communication
and utilization of
climate
information
services to support
risk management
by smallholder
farmers in West
Africa
West African
Science Service
Center on Climate
Change and
Adapted Land Use
(WASCAL)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
West
AfricaRegional
CSIS
RMP
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
CD
UIP
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
extension, development NGOs, local government and rural radio.
2013-2014:
- Gender-disaggregated farmer needs assessment
- Identification of indigenous knowledge and current knowledge gaps
- Locally salient M&E protocol
2015: - Assessment of cost-benefits and dissemination mechanism of transferring
tailored climatic information to farmers involved in PROFIL (value chain program for
agricultural development) network.
$ 5.6 M CGIAR
funds through
CCAFS Flagship 2;
plus
$ 3.0 M external
funds
2015-2018
CCAFS West
Africa Regional
Program; NMHS,
National
Agricultural
Research
Services of each
country
$75,000
USAID - CCRD
Small Grants
Program
2013 - 2014
Coordination:
Center for
Development
Research (ZEF,
Bonn University).
a) Universities
and Research
Institutes ,
Ministries and
cNational
Meteorological
Up to 50 Million €
for Research and
Institutional
Establishment
from German
Federal Ministry
of Education and
Research (BMBF)
4 years,
started mid
2013
Aims to quantify and forecast the impact of climate risk on West African smallholders
across different scales, with an end-user focus on climate advisories, index insurance
and integrated climate services.
 Village-to-district participatory action research with networks of farmer
organizations, NGOs and other sub-national stakeholders, to co-design
management options for climate variations.
 Quantitative assessment of socially differentiated climate action plans tailored to
regional priorities, and connected to downscaled seasonal forecasts.
 Crop yield forecasting to support tactical decision-making in the face of extreme
events.
 A decentralized capacity strengthening and communication mechanism to scale up
the provision of climate services.
A public-private partnership consortium providing weather index-based crop insurance
services to smallholders.
To enhance access to and uptake of climate information and related advisory services
to better support agricultural decision-making by smallholder farmers in semi-arid West
Africa:
• Improve coordination in the provision of climate information and agroadvisories services tailored to the needs of end-users
• Strengthen the capacity of smallholder farmers to better understand climate
information and effectively manage climate risks
• Improve communication approaches and channels to ensure timely uptake and
use of climate information and agro-advisories services
WASCAL is a large-scale research-focused Climate Service Center mandated to help
tackle the challenges of climate change in West Africa. WASCAL is organized around
three principle components:
1) Competence Center and Observation Networks: to develop existing African research
capacities, act as a Climate Service Center for partner countries, provide the
infrastructure and expertise to analyze the effects of climate change and to develop
strategies and policies to deal with it.
2) Core Research Program: focussing on improving the adaptive capacity of ecological
and socio-economic systems in the face of climate change; securing the flows of key
3
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
Tanzania
Building
adaptation to
climate change in
health in least
developed
countries through
resilient water,
sanitation and
hygiene (WASH)
Strengthening
climate
information and
early warning
systems (EWS) for
climate resilient
development and
adaptation to
climate change’
Tanzania Data
Rescue and
Climatology
Services of
Bénin, Burkina
Faso, Cȏte
d'Ivoire, Ghana ,
Mali, and Togo
and
International
and regional
institutions such
as ACMAD
DFID, WHO
WCO +
Ministry of
Health,
Ministerial
working groups
on climate and
health, domestic
research
institutes
UNDP
National
Meteorological
and Hydrological
Services
and
Ministries/Depar
tments
of
Agriculture,
Water resources,
Disaster
Management
and
Environment.
UK DFID
UK Met Office
Tanzania
Meteorological
Agency (TMA)
CSIS
RMP
CD
UIP
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
ecosystem services like food production, provision of clean water, soil productivity,
carbon sequestration, and services related to biodiversity; improving human
livelihoods.
The research activities of the WASCAL Core Research Program are grouped into six
research clusters, among others “Climate and Weather”.
3) Graduate Studies Program : supports academic education amongst West African
universities and contributes to the education of the next generation of African scientists
in the field of climate change.
2013-2016
MoH Tanzania has been involved in international research for years; currently has two
WHO supported adaptation projects, one focused on water safety plans - see Nepal, the
other GFCS project. Roll Back Malaria/DFID involves climate aspects. Ministerial working
groups exist on climate and health and strong expereince in domestic research
institutes. National strategy for climate/health planned.
Technical work defines and guides the implementation of: (i) a set of revised national
policies on climate-resilient and health promoting policies for water management, and
WASH, (ii) climate –resilient water safety plans, (iii) household water interventions.
$ 4.0 millions (not
all funding for
climate services).
4 years
See website:
http://www.
undpalm.org/proje
cts/ldcf-ewstanzania
Build and strengthen the observing and forecasting system. Improve communication
and types/formats of available information
DFID
3 years
This joint project, between the Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA) and the Met
Office, with support from the UK DFID, aims to undertake focused activities to build
institutional capacity around the ability to effectively rescue paper-based observational
data. This will create a more easily accessible and useable digital source of
climatological data for both scientific advancement and user-relevant climate
information.
Inception Stage:
 The aim of this stage is to agree how the project will best proceed, and this will
be documented through creation of Terms of Reference, draft work plans,
timescales and resource allocation, an opportunities and risks log, a monitoring
and evaluation plan, and an agreement on the Joint Project Team. This work
will be carried out in partnership with the TMA.
User Engagement:
 Identify and document the user requirements for the climate vulnerable socioeconomic sectors in Tanzania.
 Baseline understanding of TMA’s activities and capacity to deliver climate
information to climate-sensitive sectors in Tanzania
 Market Intelligence undertaken to identify climate-sensitive sectors in
Tanzania
4
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
O &M
CSIS
RMP
CD
UIP
To improve the effectiveness of investments aimed at food security and sustainable
agricultural growth.
X
X
X
X
X
X
4 years
See website:
http://www.u
ndpalm.org/proje
cts/ldcf2malawi;
http://www.
undpalm.org/proje
cts/ldcf-ewsmalawi
Mainstreaming disaster risk reduction. Build and strengthen the observing and
forecasting system. Improve communication and types/formats of available information
X
X
X
X
X
X
4 years
Supports implementation of the Malawi National Adaptation Action Plan (NAPA) and
especially two priority projects improving climate monitoring to enhance Malawi's early
warning capability and decision making and sustainable utilization of Lake Malawi and
lakeshore areas resources and improving community resilience to climate change
through the development of sustainable rural livelihoods.The component 2 of the
project "Identification of good practices for strengthening local level capacity and the
early warning systems is closely related to GFCS.
X
X
X
X
X
X

Through climate-sensitive stakeholder engagement and knowledge building
the TMA will work together with stakeholders in climate sensitive sectors to
identify user requirements for climate information and related services
Digitisation:
 Undertake an inventory of the TMA paper-based archive of meteorological
data
 Create a data rescue strategy
 Introduce a Quality Control (QC) for Data Rescue Work
 Digitise highest priority paper-based meteorological data
 Produce gridded 2D climatology for Tanzania using digitised in-situ
observations.
 Develop a re-analysis derived 3D climatology for Tanzania
 Construct a high-resolution climatology for Tanzania using a Numerical
Weather Prediction model
Malawi
Agriculture
Development
Programme
Support Project
World Bank
Ministry of
Agriculture,
Ministry of
Industry and
Trade, National
Roads Authority,
Ministry of Lands
and Housing
Strengthening
climate
information and
early warning
systems (EWS) for
climate resilient
development and
adaptation to
climate change &
Implementing
urgent adaptation
priorities through
strengthened
decentralized and
national
development plans
Building climate
change resilience
in the fisheries
sector in Malawi
UNDP
Ministry of
development
planning and
coordination,
National
Meteorological
and Hydrological
Services and
Ministries/
Departments of
Agriculture,
Water resources
and Disaster
Management.
FAO
$ 62 millions of
which the funding
relevant to
climate services is
not broken out.
Climate services
are relevant to an
activity that is one
share of a USD 25
mln component
comprising
multiple other
activities in
addition
$ 8.5 millions (not
all funding for
climate services).
$ 6 millions
7 years
5
X
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Tanzania
and Malawi
The Global
Framework for
Climate Services
(GFCS) Adaptation
Programme in
Africa - Building
Resilience in
Disaster Risk
Management,
Food Security,
Nutrition and
Health
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
Norway
WMO
WHO
WFP
CCAFS,
CICERO,
CMI, IFRC
Ministry of
Agriculture,
Tanzania;
Tanzania
Meteorological
Agency; Farm
Radio
International
NK 60 millions
$ 1,145,899 (WFP
budget)
2014-2016
This programme is a model of how agencies can work together under the GFCS
umbrella and the programme includes a strong communications component to enable
partners to reach different target audiences with its key lessons learned and the success
stories. It is hoped that this programme will lead to similar partnerships around
delivering climate services in other countries.
CSIS
X
RMP
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
CD
UIP
X
X
X
X
X
The aim of the activities at the national level is that national actors have the capacity to
tailor, deliver and evaluate climate services to support adaptation in Malawi and
Tanzania. At the district level, the target communities will be enabled to manage the
risks related to climate variability.
WHO Specific Objectives are to guide decision makers and public health authorities to
provide well –targeted climate services in countries in Africa through operationalizing
the GFCS to obtain accessible and accurate climate service information.
WFP Specific Objectives are:
- Strengthen national food security and DRR early warning systems through improved
use of climate services.
- Strengthen the capacity of local actors - including government officials, extension
workers and civil society at the district level - to access, use and disseminate climate
information for food security purposes.
- Increase food insecure households’ access to tailored climate information which
helps improve their food security, in particular by enhancing agriculture and pastoral
production.
- Improve our understanding of the climate service needs of food insecure
households, and ensure that these needs are appropriately reflected in WFP’s
prgramme planning tools.
Malawi and
Burkina
Faso
Ethiopia,
Tanzania,
Malawi,
Burkina
Faso,
The One UN
Climate Change
Learning
Partnership (UN
CC:Learn) –
National Projects
Laying the
Foundation for
Establishing
Networks Linking
Farmers Across
33 multilateral
organizations,
UNITAR
providing
Secretariat
Malawi: Ministry
of Environment
and Climate
Change
Management
Burkina Faso:
Conseil national
pour
l'environnement
et le
développement
durable
$ 500,000 for
both country
projects
Univ Reading,
Emory Univ
ICRISAT
$149,939
USAID - CCRD
Small Grants
Program
Malawi: 2012
– 2017;
Burkina Faso:
2014-2017
 Assess existing human resource capacities and skills in key sectors to address climate
change
 Prioritize actions to enhance climate change learning and strengthen national
education and training systems
 Ensure that climate change learning is linked to and helps to achieve national climate
change objectives
 Augment mobilization of resources for training and skills development from national
budgets and external partners
 Support the creation of a sustainable human resource base to address climate
change.
X
Malawi with support by UN CC:Learn has developed a national climate change learning
strategy which covers issues related to climate science. One particular area of interest
expressed by stakeholders in Malawi was how to make climate information accessible
and relevant to decision-makers.
Burkina Faso has not yet decided on strategic focus areas for their national climate
change learning strategy, but skills development for climate services could be
potentially covered.
2014-2015
To assess current conditions of and capacities to provide climate information in each of
3 countries in East/Southern Africa and 3 countries in West Africa and to identify the
best ways forward and to develop plans for scaling up in at least 1 country in
East/Southern Africa and 1 country in West Africa. Another goal of the project is to
establish climate services that reach the majority of African smallholder farmers but are
6
X
X
X
Country/
Region
Senegal,
Mali
Ethiopia,
Kenya,
Mozambiq
ue,
Namibia,
South
Africa,
Tanzania
and Zambia
Ethiopia,
Uganda,
Tanzania,
Zambia,
Kenya
Project Title
Africa and South
Asia for Demanddriven Climate
Services
Preparedness to
climate variability
and change,
natural disaster
prevention and
mitigation, and
enhanced food
security in Africa
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
CSIS
RMP
CD
UIP
X
X
X
X
X
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
also sustainable in the long term.
WMO, Finnish
Meteorological
Institute, NMHS
of each country
CHF 385,000
(funding: Ministry
for Foreign Affairs
of Finland)
2014 – 2015
Improving
Agricultural
Productivity and
Food Security
Through Enhanced
Provision and
Delivery of Climate
Services for
Smallholder
Farmers in Eastern
and Southern
Africa Region
CCAFS East
Africa Regional
Program,
ICPAC, SADCCSC, ACMAD,
NMHSs, National
universities, etc.
$75,000
USAID - CCRD
Small Grants
Program
2014 - 2015
Ethiopia,
Kenya,
Tanzania,
Burundi,
Rwanda,
Uganda
Integrated
Agricultural
Production and
Food Security
Forecasting System
for East Africa
CCAFS,
CIMMYT, CIAT,
ICRISAT,ICPAC,
IRI, FAO,
Partnership for
Economic Policy
(PEP, Kenya),
WFP
$ 2.76 M CGIAR
funds through
CCAFS Flagship 2;
plus
$ 770,000
external funds
2015-2018
Egypt
Building resilient
food security
systems to benefit
the southern Egypt
region (Adaptation
Fund project)
WFP with lead
implementing
partners:
Ministry of
Agriculture and
Ministry of
Environment of
Egypt.
Project partners
- The Egyptian
Meteorological
Authority (EMA),
The Ministry of
Local
Development
(MLD), The
Ministry of
Total funding:
$ 6,904,318 of
which climate
services
component is
$ 5,838,253
4 Years
(2013-2016)
To assist seven African countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa,
Tanzania and Zambia) to improve their capabilities to prepare for and manage risks
associated with extreme weather/climate events, to adapt to climate variability and
change, and attain enhanced food security, thereby contributing to the attainment of
internationally agreed development goals including those contained in the Millennium
Declaration.
To understand the constraints related to institutional capacities and linkages that inhibit
the generation, packaging, communication and utilization of climate services by
smallholder farmers in Eastern and Southern Africa, and the needs and opportunities
for climate services, taking into account gender and equity with a view to enhancing
delivery of climate services for improved agricultural productivity and food security.
Specific Objectives:
1. Critically assess smallholder farmers climate service needs in five target countries
2. Identify the gaps and opportunities in delivering climate services to effectively
address the challenges faced by smallholder farmers in their management of climate
shocks and related risks
3. Perform a gap analysis of the capacities of and linkages between institutions involved
in generation, packaging, communication and utilization of climate services tailored to
smallholder farmers in Eastern and Southern Africa regions
Enhance food security early warning in East Africa through a robust, scientifically sound
security forecasting system that integrates improved seasonal climate, production and
price forecasts. Specific objectives:
 A robust seasonal climate forecasting system with high spatial and temporal
resolution for use in yield forecasting
 Seasonal production forecasts provided for major food security crops
 Refined method for regional, national and sub-national price forecasting
 Enhanced capacity of national and regional organizations to integrate improved
climate, crop yield, and price forecasts into food security planning
Project Component 1: Enhance climate resilience and improve food security in Southern
Egypt, to serve the 45 percent of Egypt’s rural population living in this region, through
technology development and transfer.
Project Component 2: Build capacity at national, regional and local levels to understand
climate trends and impacts and replicate adaptation interventions
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X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
Monitoring of
Climate Change
Risk Impacts of Sea
Level Rise on
Groundwater and
Agriculture in the
Nile Delta
Adaptation to
Climate Change in
the Nile Delta
through Integrated
Coastal Zone
Management.
South
Africa and
SubSaharan
Africa
Weather Climate
Science to Service
Partnership
Africa
GFCS – Adaptation
and Disaster Risk
Reduction in
Africa,
geographical
region: Southern,
Ease and West
Africa.
Environment and
the Egyptian
Environmental
Affairs Agency
(EEAA), Local
authorities,
community
organizations
FAO
$ 338,000
2 years
To develop a decision support tool for predicting and mitigating likely impacts of
climate change on agricultural production and the environment along the coastal areas
of the Nile Delta. The outcome of the project is to elaborate a comprehensive
CSIS
RMP
CD
UIP
X
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
X
X
monitoring system able to generate sound forecasts of SLR impacts resulting
from climate change on soil and groundwater in the Nile Delta to serve as a
decision-support (information) system for mitigating/adapting to such impacts
on the environment, agriculture and population.
UNDP
Egypt Ministry of
Water Resources
and
IrrigationCoastal
Research
Institute,
Egyptian Shore
Protection
Authority
UK Met Office
South Africa
Weather Service
$ 4 millions (not
all funding for
climate services).
See project
weblink:
(http://www.
undpalm.org/proje
cts/sccf-czmegypt)
Capacity to improve resilience of coastal settlements and development
infrastructure is strengthened. Innovative and environmentally friendly
adaptation measures enforced in Nile Delta ICZM
Newton Fund
Minimum 3
years
Together, building on an existing strong partnership, South African Weather Service and
the Met Office will build capacity within Southern Africa to combat the challenges of
extreme weather and risks from changing climate.
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
In order for this programmeto work, a series of activities has been designed to
first build the capability of the regional centre (SAWS) working alongside the
Met Office. This includes developing the high resolution modelling capability of
SAWS through best practice and science exchanges and associated training
required to adopt these improvements.By developing more user partnerships
(scientific and operational) across the region, operational severe weather, and
disaster risk reduction and climate resilient services will be developed to benefit
both South Africa and the wider sub-Saharan African community.
WMO
Norway
NOK 56.8 millions
December
2011November
2015.
The objective of the project is to enhance adaptation and promote disaster risk
reduction in 46 countries of Africa.
8
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
Africa
Future Climate for
Africa (FCFA)
DFID / NERC
UK Met Office
£20millions
5 years
FCFA is a programme led by DFID in partnership with the UK’s Natural Environment
Research Council, launched in April 2014. Its focus will be on advancing scientific
knowledge, understanding and prediction of African climate variability and change on 5
to 40 year timescales, together with support for better integration of science into
longer-term decision making, leading to improved climate risk management and the
protection of lives and livelihoods.
CSIS
RMP
CD
X
X
X
UIP
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
FCFA projects will be delivered through collaborative partnerships of the world's best
researchers. The programme's success will be measured by the way that its research
generates new knowledge which can be used to benefit the poor in a sustainable
manner.FCFA is the successor to DFID’s highly successful Climate Science Research
Partnership with the Met Office, which for the first time applied the Met Office worldleading climate models to Africa in a focussed effort to improve the reliability of
drought early warning systems and to enhance our understanding of climate change on
the continent.
Research will be structured around three pillars, which will be complemented by
activities focused on building user-demand, knowledge and skills, and strengthening
scientific capacity in Africa.
FCFA will deliver (i) increased availability and use of high-quality, robust climate
information across Africa and greater expertise on how to apply this in practice, (ii)
improved long-term decision making and investments by stakeholders in climatesensitive areas, and (iii) sustained improvements in climate services (eg., early
warnings, climate scenarios, expertise) across Africa.
This will contribute to poverty alleviation through increasing resilience and reducing the
impacts of climate hazards such as flooding and drought and longer term climate
change on poorer communities.
Asia
Nepal
Building Resilience
to Climate Related
Hazards
World Bank
$ 31 Millions
5.5 years
The main objective of the proposed project is to enhance government capacity to
mitigate climate related hazards by improving the accuracy and timeliness of weather
and flood forecasts and warnings for climate-vulnerable communities, as well as
developing agricultural management information system services to help farmers
mitigate climate-related production risks.
X
X
X
X
Risks of human and material losses from Glacial Lake Outburst Flooding (GLOF) events
from Imja Lake reduced. Human and material losses from recurrent flooding events in
four flood prone districts of Terai and Churia Range reduced.
X
X
X
The overall objective of the project is to strengthen institutional and technical capacities
for reducing vulnerability and promoting climate-resilient practices, strategies and plans
for effectively responding to the impacts of climate change and variability in agriculture
X
X
X
X
X
This would be achieved by establishing multi-hazard information and early warning
systems, upgrading the existing hydrometeorological system and agricultural
management information system, and enhancing capacity. Activities funded through the
project would help improve decision-making and planning in key climate-vulnerable and
water resources dependent sectors particularly agriculture, health, water and disaster
management, and contribute to building climate resilience for communities at risks.
Community Based
Flood and Glacial
Lake Outburst Risk
Reduction.
UNDP
Government of
Nepal, High
Mountain Glacial
Watershed
Program, ICIMOD
$ 6.363 millions
(not all funding
for climate
services).
Reducing
vulnerability and
increasing adaptive
FAO
Ministry of
Agricultural
$ 2,689,498
See project
weblink:
(http://www
.undpalm.org/proj
ects/ldcfglof-nepal).
2015 – 2018
9
X
X
X
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
capacity to
respond to impacts
of climate change
and variability for
sustainable
livelihoods in
agriculture sector
in Nepal
Development
(MOAD),
Department of
Agriculture (DOA),
Department of
Livestock Services
(DLS), Nepal
Agricultural
Research Council
(NARC) and
Department of
Hydrology and
Meteorology
(DHM)
FNEP2 (FinnishNepalese Project
for Improved
capability of the
Government of
Nepal to respond
to the increased
risks related to the
weather-related
natural disasters
caused by climate
change, Phase 2)
Building
adaptation to
climate change in
health in least
developed
countries through
resilient water,
sanitation and
hygiene (WASH)
Global flood EWS
for early rapid
mapping
activations: case
study Nepal
Finland
Department of
Hydrology and
Meteorology
(DHM), Nepal
Funding
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
CSIS
X
X
RMP
CD
UIP
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
sector.The component 2 of the project focuses to improve databases, tools and methods
for vulnerability and risk assessment and to define the hotspots of vulnerability (current
and future) in agriculture sector. The project will be built on previous FAO’s field
experiences and will improve the quality of agro-meteorological advisories to farmers.
This project will make use of the existing forecasts and also the new information
products planned to be developed under the PPCR project for application at local level
focusing specifically on agriculture sector. The project resources will contribute to
strengthening agro-climate monitoring infrastructure in selected 4 districts in close
coordination with PPCR and strengthen the expertise of district agricultural extension
officers to interpret and use the climate data and information for decision making. This
project will strengthen the technical capacity of the Government agencies for agricultural
and livestock services at district level (4 districts - Siraha, Udayapur, Kapilbastu,
Argakhanchi) to interpret weather and climate information and agro-meteorological
information to be developed under the Component D: Agriculture Management
Information System (AMIS) of PPCR project.
Euros 493,000
DFID, WHO
WCO + MOH
UNITAR\UNOSAT
Duration
1.6.2013 –
31.12.2015
2013-2016
$ 400,000
Increasing the capacity of DHM to provide new services to the society through advanced
technology in hydrometeorological observations, services and international data sharing
X
X
To support the development of effective plans for climate change adaptation in the
health sector in low and low-middle income countries.
MoH and WHO-Nepal have adequate capacity in climate and health, and identified a
range of future potential interventions. Currently implementing, DFID adaptation project
focused on water safety plans. Health vulnerability assessment for Kathmandu
conducted 2010.
TBD
The project sets the ground for a new range of UNOSAT’s services and products
according to (CLIMATE/DRR related). The main goal is to have an integrated (modelling) system in
funding and place that:
human
 can integrate a dedicate early warning system for alerting UNOSAT’s team to any
resources
potential flooding events in the world. This early warning system will provide
available
guidance for timely activation of UNOSAT rapid mapping as well as for post disaster
satellite image acquisition.
 can be adopted during an activation to fill in any gaps in the satellite image analysis
caused by, for instance, cloudy or lack of imagery.
 can be used as part of capacity development projects either during training or as a
means of extracting important hydrological data required over a country.
The activities addressing various pillars include:
 Develop UNOSAT’s flood Geoportal for sharing flood vectors derived from:
Satellite-based analysis and Flood modelling estimations.
 Create a free to use global conditioned DEM for flood modelling (USGS-UNOSAT
10
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives











Bhutan
SHSB
(Strengthening
HydroMeteorological
Services for
Bhutan)
Finland
Department of
HydrologyMeteorological
Services (DHMS),
Bhutan
Euros 462, 000
Addressing the Risk
of Climate-Induced
Disasters through
Enhanced National
and Local Capacity
in Bhutan.
UNDP
Bhutan
Department of
HydroMeteorological
Service (DHMS).
Bhutan Ministry
of Agriculture and
Forests (MoAF).
GEF, WHO
WCO + MOH
$ 11.491 millions
(not all funding
for climate
services).
Climate Change
Adaptation to
Protect Human
Health
Improved capacity of DHMS to manage and produce high quality weather information
and services to the Bhutanese society.
2014-2018
Risks from climate-induced floods and landslides reduced in the economic and industrial
hub of Bhutan. Community resilience to climate-induced risks (droughts, floods,
landslides, windstorms, forest fires) strengthened in at least four Dzonkhags. Relevant
information about climate-related risks and threats shared across community-based
organizations and planners in climate-sensitive policy sectors on a timely and reliable
basis.
Nepal,
India and
Bangladesh
Strengthening
Generation and
Dissemination of
Climate-Based
Agro-Advisories for
Smallholder
Farmers in South
Asia
Nepal
Development
Research Institute
(NDRI), CCAFS S
Asia Regional
Program, NMHS
of each country
$ 150,000
(USAID - CCRD
Small Grants
Program)
2014-2015
Yemen
Yemen Agrobiodiversity and
Climate Adaptation
GEF
World Bank
$ 6.8 millions.
Of that, $ 0.6
million for
climate change
modeling and
capacity
5 years
Ministry of
Agriculture and
Irrigation
O &M
CSIS
RMP
CD
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
UIP
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
“SRTM-FM” dataset).
Set up a pilot area and combine existing global hydrological routines, flood
modelling tools available from partners using data from satellite and surveys.
Combine Rainfall alerts from partners with available Flood Modeling capabilities and
set up an automated routine for flood alerting and mapping.
Near real time flood alerts based on rainfall satellite data for extreme flood events.
Archive flood vectors (GIS format)
Support rapid mapping activities and pre-empt the activation process
Improve on-going in country projects
Training
Develop UNOSAT’s Geoportal for sharing climate/water related data.
EWS platform capability for downloading flood vector data:
Past disaster events (archived satellite derived flood vector)
On-going flood events (Modelled inundation extents and satellite derived vector
data).
1.6.2013 –
31.12.2015
2010-2014
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
To increase adaptive capacity of national health system institutions, including field
practitioners, to respond to climate-sensitive health risks.Outcome 1: Risk Assessment
and integrated surveillance enhanced for effective management of climate sensitive
health risks. 2: Community and health sector institutions have improved capacity to
respond to climate-sensitive health risks. 3: Emergency preparedness and disease
prevention measures
Share experience and create linkages among organizations for scaling up climate services
to smallholder farmers in 3 countries in South Asia: India, Nepal, andBangladesh.
Specific objectives:
• Enhance the institutional capacity for creating user-friendly agro-meteorological
advisories
• Establish and enhance appropriate ICT dissemination mechanisms
• Empower smallholder farmers to utilize agro-meteorological information
• Project will aim to achieve a minimum of 35% participation from women and
marginally disadvantaged groups
To enhance capacity and awareness at key national agencies and at local levels, to
respond to climate variability and change; and to better equip local communities to cope
with climate change through the conservation and use of agro-biodiversity.
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X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
CSIS
RMP
CD
UIP
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
building.
Tajikistan
Programme for
Implementing the
Global Framework
for Climate
Services (GFCS) at
Regional and
National Scales
WMO
(Environment
Canada)
CAD 6.138
million CAD total
programme
funding (~CAD
10,000 for this
component)
4 years
(April 2013March 2017)
Integrated Water
Harvesting
Technologies to
Adapt to Climate
Change Induced
Water Shortage.
UNDP
Ministry of Water
and Environment,
Republic of
Yemen
$ 5.387 millions
(not all funding
for climate
services).
Yemen Climate
Information
System and PPCR
Coordination
World Bank
Environmental
Protection
Authority of
Yemen
$ 19 millions. Of
which $ 15.4
millions for
climate services
See project
weblink:
(http://www
.undpalm.org/proj
ects/ldcfyemen)
5.5 years
FINTAJ (FinnishTajikistan
Meteorology
Project),
Finland
State
Administration for
Hydrometeorolog
y The Committee
of Environment
Protection under
the Government
of the Republic of
Tajikistan
(Tajikhydromet)
UNDP
Ministry of
Agriculture of
Republic of
Tajikistan.
State Agency on
Forestry under
the Government
of RT.
Enterprise for
Protected Areas
under the State
Agency on
Forestry under
the Government
of RT.
Euros 503,000
Climate Risk
Management in
Tajikistan (part of
Central Asian
Climate Risk
Management
Programme)
$600,000 (not all
funding for
climate services).
INDARE: With a focus on GFCS, INdian Ocean DAtaREscue (INDARE) will enhance the
quality and quantity of historical terrestrial and marine weather and climate
observations in the region through provision of relevant climate information to improve
decision-making and policy formulation. It will equally ensure long term collaboration
among countries in the Indian Ocean on the exchange of climate data/information and
climate services. In addition, INDARE will improve the ability of the National Hydrological
and Meteorological Services (NHMSs) to issue timely early warnings to safeguard the life
and property of the citizens. Such data improvements will also lead to better historical
3D dynamical reanalyses, which can then be tailored and/or downscaled to higher
resolution for the full range of climate applications (e.g. impacts, extremes and risks) and
GFCS needs
Technical capacity to identify and implement cost effective integrated water harvesting
techniques developed at national and local institutions and community groups to
withstand risks of increasing water deficit as a result of climate change. Water
harvesting technologies designed and tested to cover 5,000 ha of land. Communitybased water harvesting management arrangements developed to improve local water
access and distribution in the face of increasing water stress.
X
X
X
The project development objective is to improve the quality of hydrometeorological and climate services provided to end-users.
X
X
X
1.1.2014 –
31.12.2016
Improved capacity of the Tajikhydromet to deliver weather, climate, and
environmental information and early warning services for the benefits of the
society
X
X
X
2010-2015
Increasing resilience of rural mountain communities through agro–forestry and climate
related disaster management
X
X
X
12
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
CSIS
RMP
X
X
X
CD
UIP
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
State Service for
Hydro
meteorology
under the
Committee on
Environmental
Protection under
the Government
of RT.
Committee on
Environmental
Protection under
the Gov. of RT.
Committee on
Emergency
Situation under
the Gov of RT.
Parliament of
Republic of
Tajikistan.
Tajik Agrarian
University.
Tajik Agrarian
Academy of
Sciences.
Disaster Risk
Management
Programme
Phase 3
UNDP
Committee of
Emergency Situati
ons and Civil
Defense of
Tajikistan
$ 10.8 million
2010 – 2015
The overall objective of DRM Programme is to “decrease the risk of natural and manmade hazards to rural and urban livelihoods, and ensure infrastructure and recovery
mechanisms in place”
Kyrgyz
Republic
BMU Germany,
GIZ, WHO
WCO + MOH
Agricultural
Productivity and
World Bank
Ministry of
X
In terms of technical areas, the Programme consists of 5 main outputs:
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Protecting health
from climate
change
X
2010-2013
$ 6.85 millions of
which $ 0.5
3 years
Enhanced operational disaster risk management capacities
Strengthened risk assessment, monitoring and warning capacities
Strengthened disaster risk management institutional and legal frameworks
Disaster response enabled and efficient, and
Disaster risk management coordinated
The project addresses climate adaptation, strengthening of health systems and building
institutional capacity. National Vulnerability-Adaptation assessments conducted and
strategies were created. In Tajikistan, Increased desertification and rise in average
temperature, is threatening agricultural yield and food security. WHO has strong
collaboration with the State Agency for Hydrometeorology. An inter-agency working
group was established to assess the impacts of climate change and protect public health.
A strategy was developed by the Ministry of Public Health that focuses on vulnerable
populations (children, women, elderly, and chronic disease patients) but has not yet
been implemented and is still under government approval. Current priorities to promote
health in flood- and earthquake-prone areas, and capacity building in environment and
health, but specifically related to developing national extreme weather preparedness
and response. Extensive work on water safety plans was undertaken within regional GIZ
project.
To increase the agricultural productivity of the project beneficiaries
X
X
13
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Assistance Project
Agriculture and
Melioration;
Kyrgyzhydromet
million for
hydromet
services
Climate Risk
Management in
Kyrgyzstan’s
Pasturelands (part
of Central Asian
Climate Risk
Management
Programme)
UNDP
Ministry of
Emergency
Situation of
Kyrgyz Republic,
State Agency on
Environment
Protection and
Forestry of Kyrgyz
Republic,
SuusamyrAiylAym
ak, Jayil rayon
administration
UNDP
Ministry of
Emergency
Situations,
Ministry of
Finance, Ministry
of Economic
Development and
Antitrust Policy,
Ministry of
Agriculture and
Melioration,
Ministry of
Health Care,
Ministry of
Energy, Ministry
of Transport and
Communication,
Ministry of
Education and
Science and
others as
appropriate.
State agencies:
State Agency on
Environment
Protection and
Forestry, State
communications
agency, State
agency on
construction and
regional
development and
others as
$ 600,000
Effective Disaster
Risk Management
for Sustainable
Development and
Human Security
(DRMP 3)
$ 5 million
Duration
2010 -2015
2012 – 2016
Objectives
Increased resilience of rural communities through improved pasture management and
Climate Risk Management in Kyrgyzstan’s Suusamyr Valley
• Output 1: Participatory Disaster Risk Reduction integrated into sustainable
development programming and national capacity building
• Output 2: Comprehensive Disaster risk assessment & monitoring system established
for effective socio-economic development programming and early warning
• Output 3: Resilience of local communities strengthened through applying integrated
DRR approach
• Output 4: Regional cooperation strengthened in addressing resource based
transboundary conflicts and cross-cutting issues mainstreamed (gender and agesensitive approaches) into essential elements of DRR
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Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
CSIS
X
X
RMP
CD
X
X
UIP
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
X
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
World Food
Programme
climate service
initiatives in Kyrgy
Republic
(no specific project
title)
FINKMET (FinnishKyrgyz
Meteorology
Project)
Partner(s)
appropriate.
State services:
State Tax Service
and others as
appropriate.
State authorities
and
organizations:
National
Statistical
Committee,
Secretariat of the
National DRR
Platform,
Scientific
Research
Institutes,
Institutions of
Higher
Education. Local
level partners:
local state
administrations,
local selfgovernments,
Civil Protection
Commissions.
Activity 1 project
partners:
WFP
State Agency on
the
Environmental
Protection and
Forestry
Climate Change
Centre of the
Kyrgyz Republic
National Agency
for
Hydrometerology
Tia Shan Policy
Center of the
American
University of
Central Asia.
Activity 2: WFP
Finland
Agency on
Hydrometeorolog
y under Ministry
of Emergency
Funding
365,000 USD
(Entirely for
climate services)
Duration
5 Years
(2011-2015)
Objectives
Activity 1: Enhance evidence-base of climate risks on food security in Kyrgyz Republic,
especially at household level, in order to support decisions on adaptation planning. WFP
has conducted a study ‘Climate Risk and Food Security in the Kyrgyz Republic’ to enhance
evidence-base on impact of climate risks on food security particularly at household level.
The study also aimed to identify the regions and communities that should be prioritised
for support and interventions, and also to provide information for adaptation planning to
build resilience, particularly among the most vulnerable groups.
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
CSIS
X
X
X
X
RMP
CD
X
Activity 2: Production of food security bulletins that use remote sensing data to help
international food security stakeholders in Kyrgyzstan understand the monthly situation
and areas of concern. Monthly food prices and security bulletin also provides agrometeorological information such as NDVI anomaly and long-term weather forecast. WFP
analyses remote sensing based scientific data to provide usable interpretation of the
data particularly potential impact on household food security. The bulletin is
disseminated among more than 200 national and international food security
stakeholders in Kyrgyz Republic.
Euros 502,000
1.1.2014 –
31.12.2016
Improved capacity of the Kyrgyzhydromet to deliver weather, climate, and
environmental information and early warning services for the benefits of Kyrgyz society
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UIP
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
CATCOS Phase 2:
Regional GFCS
Observation
Workshop, Central
Asia
CATCOS Phase 2:
Greenhouse gases
and glacier
measurements
South
Asia/Indian
Ocean
Maldives
Central Asia
Kyrgyz Republic
national strategy
climate change and
health
Programme for
Implementing the
Global Framework
for Climate
Services (GFCS) at
Regional and
National Scales
Programme for
Implementing the
Global Framework
for Climate
Services (GFCS) at
Regional and
National Scales
Central Asia
Hydrometeorology
Modernization
Project, with focus
on Tajikistan,
Kyrgyz Republic
and others in
Central Asia via
grant to
International Fund
for Saving the Aral
Sea
Situations of the
Kyrgyz Republic
(Kyrgyzhydromet)
MeteoSwiss, SDC,
Univ. Fribourg,
WMO;
local partners
MeteoSwiss, SDC,
Empa, Univ.
Fribourg;
KyrgyzHydromet,
CAIAG
BMU-Germany
WHO
WCO + MOH
WMO
(Environment
Canada)
Sep/Oct
2015
The project supports the organization of a GFCS Observation Workshop in Kyrgyzstan,
which will discuss the regional aspects of GFCS Observations in Central Asia and establish
a user dialogue with stakeholders from the Water, DRR and Health sectors.
1 Apr 2014 –
30 Sep 2016
The project supports the establishment of a GAW station with greenhouse gas
measurements in Kyrgyzstan (Issyk-Kul area), as well as the re-establishment of several
long-term (but interrupted) glacier measurement series in Kyrgyzstan. Furthermore, the
operators of these measurements are trained by Swiss experts.
CSIS
RMP
CD
UIP
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
The project was also involved in the EU-Central Asia Strategy and the Central Asia
Climate Knowledge Forum. Need for support to improve collaboration regional action, to
identify their priorities in the regional strategy.
CAD 6.138
millions total
programme
funding; ~CAD
800.000 for this
specified region
4 years
(April 2013March 2017)
WMO
(Environment
Canada)
CAD 6.138
million total
programme
funding (~CAD
30.000 for this
country)
4 years
(April 2013March 2017)
World Bank
Tajikhydromet;
Kyrgyzhydromet;
Executive
Committee of the
International fund
for Saving the Aral
Sea
$ 27.7 millions.
All is relevant to
climate services.
5.25 years
The Goal of the Programme is to enhance resilience in social, economic and
environmental systems to climate variability and climate change through the
development of effective and sustainable Regional and National Climate Services under
the GFCS in selected regions and countries. All project countries should be able to
produce, deliver and apply nationally relevant climate information.
X
X
X
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
X
The Key Results of the Programme are
 Capacities and mechanisms for climate services production and delivery are in
place in Small Island Developing States (Caribbean and South Western Pacific
Ocean Region)
 A framework for climate services for the Arctic Polar Region is established
Capacities and mechanisms for climate services production and delivery are in
place in South Asia/3rd Pole Region (Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau region)
 Free access to a consolidated, cutting-edge knowledge base on Integrated
Drought Management
 Sustained capacity development for developing country scientists
Develop and run National Climate Outlook Forums
To improve the accuracy and timeliness of hydromet services in Central Asia, with
particular focus on Kyrgyz Republic andRepublic of Tajikistan.
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X
X
X
X
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
CSIS
RMP
CD
UIP
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
North America, Central America and the Caribbean
Belize,
Suriname
and
Guyana
Dominica
Caribbean
Regional
Caribbean
Regional
Programme for
Implementing the
Global Framework
for Climate Services
(GFCS) at Regional
and National Scales
Third Phase Disaster
Vulnerability
Reduction APL
WMO
(Environment
Canada)
Programme for
Implementing the
Global Framework
for Climate Services
(GFCS) at Regional
and National Scales
Programme for
Implementing the
Global Framework
for Climate Services
(GFCS) at Regional
and National Scales
WMO
(Environment
Canada)
SHOCS II
(Strengthening
HydroMeteorological
Operations and
Services in the
Caribbean SIDS –
Phase II)
World Bank
WMO
(Environment
Canada)
Finland
Association of
Caribbean States
and The
Meteorological
and Hydrological
Institutes/Service
s/Offices and
Disaster
Management
Agencies of the
CAD 6.138
million total
programme
funding (~CAD
100,000 for
these countries)
$ 39.5 millions.
For design and
deployment of a
robust hydromet
network, some
part of $ 7.375
million to be
shared among
four
investments.
4 years
(April 2013March 2017)
Develop and run National Climate Outlook Forums
6 years
The overall objective of the Project is to reduce vulnerability to natural hazards and
climate change impacts in Dominica through: (i) investment in resilient infrastructure,
and (ii) improved hazard data collection and monitoring systems.
CAD 6.138
million total
programme
funding (~ CAD
10,000 for this
country)
CAD 6.138
million total
programme
funding (~CAD
800.000 for this
region)
4 years
(April 2013March 2017)
(implementa
tion 20142015)
4 years
(April 2013March 2017)
Euros 1 Million
1.1.2013 –
31.12.2015
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
The Goal of the Programme is:
to enhance resilience in social, economic and environmental systems to climate
variability and climate change through the development of effective and sustainable
Regional and National Climate Services under the GFCS in selected regions and countries.
All project countries should be able to produce, deliver and apply nationally relevant
climate information.
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X
X
Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment : WHO/PAHO regional support and
opportunities to collaborate within region identified. Issues of water, extreme weather,
food security, and vector borne diseases
The Key Results of the Programme are
 Capacities and mechanisms for climate services production and delivery are in place
in Small Island Developing States (Caribbean and South Western Pacific Ocean
Region)
 A framework for climate services for the Arctic Polar Region is established
 Capacities and mechanisms for climate services production and delivery are in place
in South Asia/3rd Pole Region (Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau region)
 Free access to a consolidated, cutting-edge knowledge base on Integrated Drought
Management
 Sustained capacity development for developing country scientists
To strengthen the role and enhance the capacity of the Association of Caribbean States,
National Meteorological and Hydrological Services and Disaster Management Agencies in
the selected SIDS to help mitigate impacts of natural hazards
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
CSIS
RMP
CD
UIP
X
X
X
X
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
following Small
Island Developing
States (SIDS):
Antigua &
Barbuda,
Bahamas,
Barbados, Belize,
Cuba, Dominica,
Dominican
Republic,
Grenada, Guyana,
Haiti, Jamaica, St.
Kitts & Nevis,
Saint Lucia, St.
Vincent & The
Grenadines,
Suriname,
Trinidad and
Tobago
Caribbean
Regional
Programme for
Building Regional
Climate Capacity in
the Caribbean
WMO
USAID
Caribbean
Institute of
Meteorology and
Hydrology (CIMH)
$ 8.025 Millions
Caribbean
Regional
CARICOF
US National
Weather Service,
Climate Program
Office/NOAA
Caribbean
Institute for
Meteorology and
Hydrology
$ 75,000 per
year
Tonga
Pacific Aviation
Investment - Tonga
World Bank
Tonga Airports
Ltd (TAL)
$ 28 millions.
Of that, relevant
to climate
services is
procurement of
3 years
(January
2014 to
December
2017)
The primary objective of the programme is to strengthen the capability of the CIMH to
deliver its programmes and, in particular, to facilitate the establishment of the World
Meteorological Organization (WMO) Regional Climate Centre in the Caribbean to be
housed at the CIMHand capable of providing tailored climate and weather services to
support adaptation and enhanced disaster risk reduction region-wide.. Achieving this
objective will require (i) infrastructure development including the establishment of a
Caribbean Environmental and Climate Computational Center to provide CIMH, regional
scientists and end-users with needed resources to better understand and predict climate
impacts;, (ii) increasing the range of products and services delivered to stakeholders, (iii)
enhancement of human and technical capacities at the CIMH and in National
Meteorological and Hydrological Services in Caribbean Small Island Developing States
(SIDS)to access, analyze and use climate data to better inform decision-making in climate
sensitive sectors and (iv) improvement of service delivery mechanisms to national,
regional and international stakeholders. The outputs and outcomes from this program
will support the sustainable development of the Caribbean region by the making regional
societies and economies more resilient to various facets of climate variability and long
term climate change.
To share current information and provide training to weather service officials on a range
of climate change related issues.
X
Southwest Pacific
4 years
To improve operational safety and oversight of key air transport infrastructure.
X
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X
X
X
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
CSIS
RMP
CD
UIP
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
automatic
weather
stations, cost not
broken out
within project
document.
Kiribati
Papua
New
Guinea
Pacific Adaptation
to Climate Change
(PACC)
UNDP
PACC, Ministry of
Environment and
Climate Change,
Government of
Tonga.
$1.7millions (not
all funding for
climate services).
Pacific Aviation
Investment - Kiribati
World Bank
Directorate of
Civil Aviation,
Kiribati
Enhancing adaptive
capacity of
communities to
climate changerelated floods in the
North Coast and
Islands Region of
Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guinea
Sustaining Coral
Reefs and Coastal
Fisheries Climate
Services Dialogue
UNDP
Office of Climate
Change and
Development,
Government of
Papua New
Guinea.
$ 22.85 millions.
Of that, relevant
to climate
services is
procurement of
automatic
weather stations
at selected
airports, cost not
broken out
within project
document.
$5.227millions
(not all funding
for climate
services).
NOAA/USA
Papua New
Guinea
Meteorological
Service and The
Nature
Conservancy
$ 75,000
See project
weblink:
(http://www
.undpalm.org/proj
ects/bfpacc;
http://www.
undpalm.org/proj
ects/bfpacc-tonga).
4.5 years
Policy changes to deliver immediate vulnerability-reduction benefits in the context of
emerging climate risks defined in all 13 PACC countries. Capacity to plan for and respond
to changes in climate risks improved. Demonstration measures to reduce vulnerability in
coastal areas and crop production (in Fiji, Palau, Papua New Guinea and Solomon
Islands) and in water management (in Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Tonga and Tuvalu)
implemented.
X
X
X
To improve operational safety and oversight of key air transport infrastructure.
X
See project
weblink:
(http://www
.undpalm.org/proj
ects/afpapua-newguinea).
To
commence
in FY15
subject to
CRCP
approval
Adaptation to coastal flooding-related risks and hazards for North Coast and Islands
communities. Adaptation to inland flooding-related risks and hazards for river
communities in East Sepik, Oro, Morobe and Madang Provinces. Institutional
strengthening to support climate- and disaster-resilient policy frameworks.
Engage Papua New Guinea in a climate services dialogue to build climate early warning
and response to reduce impacts of climate change to the marine sector and
stakeholders. Through this dialogue, participants from various agencies and NGOs in
PNG will be exposed to NOAA and partner products and information, best practices in
management, and will consider the current state of climate early warning in PNG. They
will generate case studies that can be shared and will also identify next steps to
strengthening climate early warning and response in the marine sector. Given the
importance placed on fisheries and climate events and impacts, we will spend time
focusing on capturing the impacts to fisheries, habitat, and other important coastal
ecosystem components in order to help determine what actions government agencies,
managers and communities can take before, during and after climate related events to
minimize the impacts to people and natural resources. These activities will engage
30plus participants from various agencies in PNG including Meteorological Services,
natural resource managers and NGOs. IT will also include participants form other PSIDS
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X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
CSIS
RMP
CD
UIP
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
(e.g., Vanuatu and Solomon Islands) as well as other regional organizations and national
institutions (e.g., SPREP, SPC/SOPAC, BOM, NIWA).
Tonga and
Kiribati
Tonga,
Kiribati
and Papua
New
Guinea
Tonga,
Kiribati
and Papua
New
Guinea
Climate Change and
Health (CC&H)
Project
Vulnerabilty and
Adaptation
Assessment of 11
PICs
Korea, Japan
WCO+MOH
Programme for
Implementing the
Global Framework
for Climate Services
(GFCS) at Regional
and National Scales
Training in
International Data
Exchange
WMO
(Environment
Canada)
National Action Plan for Climate Change and Health was prepared based on V&S
assessment with WHO support
Korea, Japan
WCO+MOH
Australian Bureau
of Meteorology
and National
Meteorological
and Hydrological
Services of Tonga,
Kiribati and Papua
New Guinea
2010-2013
CAD 6.138
million total
programme
funding (~ CAD
100,000 for
these countries)
Australian $
50,000.
4 years
(April 2013March 2017)
Nov 2012 to
Nov 2014
X
Tonga is among the most vulnerable countries to natural disasters. It has JNAP on
DRM+CCA at the national level. WHO provided technical assistance in preparing a report
on vulnerability and adaptation assessment, developing climate change and health.
Kiribati is one of the leaders in climate change adaptation in the Pacific region. WHO
provided technical assistance in preparing a report on vulnerability and adaptation
assessment, developing climate change and health. This report was the basis for the
GCCA:PSIS project on health adaptation currently manged by SPC.
Develop and run National Climate Outlook Forums
To assist counterpart organisations to fully participate in WMO systems for transmitting
and handling the weather, climate and environmental information. This activity prepares
partner countries:
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
a) To adopt the new arrangements for the future free and open international exchange
of weather and climate information and products through a more comprehensive
information service known as the WMO Information System (WIS); and
b) To adopt the new data formats required to participate in the World Meteorological
Organisation (WMO) coordinated international exchange of weather and climate
related information, i.e. to migrate to Table Driven Code Form (TDCF) for the exchange
of observed and predicted weather data and products.
Pacific
Islands
Pacific
Islands –
Regional
Programme for
Implementing the
Global Framework
for Climate Services
(GFCS) at Regional
and National Scales
Climate and Oceans
Support Program in
the Pacific
(COSPPac)
WMO
(Environment
Canada)
Australian Bureau
of Meteorology
and National
Meteorological
CAD 6.138
million total
programme
funding (~ CAD
800.000 for this
region)
Australian $ 31.5
millions
4 years
(April 2013March 2017)
July 2012 to
June 2016
The Goal of the Programme is:
to enhance resilience in social, economic and environmental systems to climate
variability and climate change through the development of effective and sustainable
Regional and National Climate Services under the GFCS in selected regions and countries.
All project countries should be able to produce, deliver and apply nationally relevant
climate information.
The Key Results of the Programme are
 Capacities and mechanisms for climate services production and delivery are in place
in Small Island Developing States (Caribbean and South Western Pacific Ocean
Region)
 A framework for climate services for the Arctic Polar Region is established
 Capacities and mechanisms for climate services production and delivery are in place
in South Asia/3rd Pole Region (Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau region)
 Free access to a consolidated, cutting-edge knowledge base on Integrated Drought
Management
 Sustained capacity development for developing country scientists
To assist the Pacific Island National Meteorological Services and other relevant incountry agencies to understand and use climate, ocean and sea level products for the
benefit of island communities and governments.
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X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
and Hydrological
Services of Cook
Islands, Federated
States of
Micronesia, Fiji,
Kiribati, Marshall
Islands, Niue,
Nauru, Papua
New Guinea,
Palau, Samoa,
Solomon islands,
Tonga, Tuvalu and
Vanuatu
Pacific
Islands –
Regional
GFCS - CLIDe
Enhancing climate
services in the
Pacific via (a)
strengthening
Regional
infrastructure for
climate; (b)
recovering,
digitising and
managing climate
data.
Australian Bureau
of Meteorology
and National
Meteorological
and Hydrological
Services of Cook
Islands, Federated
States of
Micronesia, Fiji,
Kiribati, Marshall
Islands, Niue,
Nauru, Papua
New Guinea,
Palau, Samoa,
Solomon islands,
Tonga, Tuvalu and
Vanuatu
Australian $
630,000. There is
the prospect of
additional
funding from
Australia’s Dept
of Foreign Affairs
& Trade.
Pacific
Islands –
Regional
FINPAC (Reduced
Vulnerability of the
Pacific Island
Country Villagers'
Livelihoods to the
Effects of Climate
Change)
Secretariat for the
Pacific Regional
Environmental
Programme
(SPREP)
with Finnish
Meteorological
Institute (FMI)
and National
Meteorological
and Hydrological
Services (NMHSs)
of the Pacific
Island Countries
(PICs)
Euros 3,775,000
Pacific Regional
Pacific International Training Desk
US National
Weather
Service/NOAA
$ 700,000 per
year
Kiribati and other
CSIS
RMP
CD
UIP
X
X
X
X
a. To establish effective communication with COSPPac partners and stakeholders; and to
build COSPPac partners' capacities in understanding and ability in using the products
and information;
b. To provide NMHSs with sustainable scientific tools; to provide NMHSs with improved
data, products and relevant information; and to enable them to support climatesensitive industries in the understanding and use of climate information in their
decision-making;
c. To ensure continuity of the Pacific sea level observation activities, and data
management and dissemination; to ensure tidal and related information services
respond effectively to national priorities.
July 2014 to
June 2016
a. To develop a strategy and implementation plan for a Regional Climate Centre within
WMO Regional Association V;
b. To maintain and enhance the existing CliDE climate database as the standard climate
data management system (CDMS) within partner countries, and transition it into a
sustainable open source CDMS;
c. To ensure effective migration of all current and historical climate data to CliDE;
d. To support data rescue activities within the Pacific by producing a complete Pacific
Islands data inventory, linking this with CCl’s proposed International Data Rescue
Portal, and supporting digitisation programs for ensuring hard copy-based records are
converted to more accessible electronic forms.
X
By collaborating with the COSSPac program it is planned to establish a Regional Climate
Centre that will enhance support for all climate services. In terms of climate data
management, the RCC outcome would be to engage with a proposed opensourceCliDE
community (to be developed as another part of this project), to support maintenance of,
and training in the use of, CliDE. The RCC could also help to link the basic data
management function within NMHSs to sustainable climate service provision, and
possibly to support research into climate variability, change and adaptation.
1.1.2012 –
31.12.2015
To improve the capacity of the Pacific Island Country National Meteorological and
Hydrological Services to deliver weather, climate and early warning services in
cooperation with and for the benefit of villagers in Pacific communities
Ongoing
To provide basic training on weather and climate forecasting and services. Held at the
Weather Forecast Office in Honolulu, with hands on participation of working
meteorologists as well as a full time Instructor.
This is an on-going capacity development project particularly useful, over time, in helping
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X
X
X
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Small Island
States of the
South Pacific;
starting next
calendar year, a
satellite office in
Guam which will
provide training
for Small Island
States in the
Western Pacific
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
CSIS
RMP
CD
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
UIP
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
Small Island States better anticipate local climate change effects and to devise resilience
measures.
Europe
Moldova
Moldova Disaster
and Climate Risk
Management
Project
Supporting
Moldova’s National
Climate Change
Adaptation Planning
Process
Moldova Disaster
and Climate Risk
Reduction Project
Phase II
Implementing
policies on health
and adaptation, and
studying the health
costs of increased
use of biomass for
heating in social
buildings.
World Bank and
State
Hydrometeorologi
-cal Service of
Moldova
UNDP
Climate Change
Office under the
Ministry of
Environment of
the Republic of
Moldova
$ 6.8 millions.
All is relevant to
climate services
5 years
To strengthen the State Hydrometeorological Service's ability to forecast severe weather
and improve Moldova's capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters.
Euros 744,000
(Austrian
government
ADA)
1 June 2013
– 31 May
2016
The overall goal of the project is to ensure that Moldova has a system and capacities in
place for medium- to long term adaptation planning and budgeting with the overall aim
to reduce vulnerability of the population and key sectors to the impacts of climate
change. The main project objective is to support Moldova to put in place its National
Adaptation Plan (NAP) process contributing to and building upon existing development
planning strategies and processes and to implement priority adaptation actions.
UNDP
CivilProtection
and Emergency
Situations Service
of the Ministry of
Interior and its
affiliated training
centers, Ministry
of Environment,
Ministry of
Health, Crisis
Medicine Training
Center, Ministry
of Education
WCO + MOH
$ 1,027,080
August 2013
– July 2016
The project seeks to increase national ownership and leadership for disaster resilience
through improved coordination capacities, awareness and knowledge and innovative
technology transfer. To achieve these, support shall be provided to development of the
National Disaster Risk Management Strategy and operationalization of the existing
coordination mechanism regarded as a platform for mobilization of combined
knowledge, prioritization and advocacy on DRR at all levels.
X
X
UNDP National workshop on climate change and adaptation in June 2014 presented
second National Communication results, and plans for the third Communication to
include all sectors and link to adaptation plans. The ministry of health will develop a
sectoral adaptation plan, based on an integrated national adaptation strategy. Training
courses with health professionals planned in 2014, finalising research on the health
impacts of climate change. Moldova requested WHO support on implementing policies
on health and adaptation, and studying the health costs of increased use of biomass for
heating in social buildings.
X
Global
Global
Climate Services
Partnership
USAID
(with
WMO, NOAA, UK
$ 750,000
3 years
 Building connections and relationships among practitioners and within and across
X
22
X
X
X
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Met Office, World
Bank,
CIMH,
CCAFS, and many
more)
Global
(Nepal,
Bhutan,
Malawi,
Tanzania, SE
Europe, Asia
LDCS)
Provide support
to Climate
Outlook Forums,
2) Training NMS’s
in climate
forecasting,
3) Snowmelt flood
potential
forecasting in the
Black Sea
4) Establish
Zambezi Flood
Forecast and Early
Warning System
Strategy,
5) RAdio-Internet
(RANET)
communications
and6) Building
Regional Flash
Flood Forecasting
Systems (Disaster
Risk Reduction)
as part of Global
Flash Flood
Program.
USAID Office of
Foreign Disaster
Assistance (OFDA)
NOAA, ICIMOD,
Zambezi
Waterway
Commission,
WMO, NGOS
(HRC), National
Meteorological
and Hydrological
Services (NMHSs)
of countries
Global (38
countries in
Eastern and
Southern
Africa, Hindu
KushHimalaya
region, and
Central
America)
SERVIR
USAID and NASA
Regional Center
for Mapping
Resources for
Development
(RCMRD) in
Nairobi, Kenya;
International
Center for
Integrated
Mountain
Development
(ICIMOD) in
Kathmandu,
Nepal; Water
Center for the
Humid Tropics of
the Caribbean
and Latin America
(CATHALAC) in
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
CSIS
RMP
CD
UIP
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
disciplines
 Sharing knowledge and experiences
 Creating new knowledge
$ 10 millions per
year
Most are on
going
projects
except
Snowmelt
forecasting
project in
2012.
Capacity building and Training, resilience building to climate extremes, Building
preparedness and response, Disaster Risk Reduction
2005-2020
Together with regional institutions, linking satellite data with ground-based data and
translating this information into useful tools, products, and services for national
governments and local communities to improve development decision-making.
 SERVIR improves access to relevant satellite datasets like GPM, TRMM, SMAP, and
others from NASA’s 20 satellites.
 SERVIR has a product catalogue and data catalogue that could contribute capacities
and datasets for climate services
 SERVIR has developed 43 decision support tools in the areas of disaster, water,
agriculture, air quality, and health that could be shared and adapted more broadly.
Many tools combine remotely sensed and locally-collected data in innovative ways.
 SERVIR provides technical trainings to hundreds of people each year through its
regional hubs, and invests in students through university partnerships and
fellowships. SERVIR also supports active hub-hub technical exchanges that could be
extended to more parties.
 SERVIR has a global network of regional hubs in 4 regions and more than 90 partners
that could be included in such a platform
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Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
CSIS
RMP
CD
UIP
X
X
X
X
X
Panama City,
Panama; and TBD
in Bangkok,
Thailand. At
national scales:
government
counterparts
responsible for
agriculture, land,
water, hydromet,
disaster
management,
energy, forests,
etc.
Global
(countries
which
participated
in one or
more of the
NOAAUSAID
International
climate
training
workshops
include
Tanzania,
Malawi,
Belize,
Burkina
Faso, Niger,
Egypt,
Nepal,
Bhutan,
Dominica,
and CIMH.
Next year's
workshop
will focus on
the West
Pacific basin
with focus
on some of
the Islands
including
Papua New
Guinea. In
addition,
Tanzania,
Malawi,
Burkina,
National Centers
for Environmental
Prediction
International
Desks
NOAA, USAID,
DoS
$ 1.2 millions
Indefinite
Develop capacity in weather and climate forecasting for developing and emerging
countries; Provide operational weather and climate information that enables decision
making in food security, disaster risk reduction, and other socio-economic sectors
 Work with developing countries to permanently archive historical data in electronic
media
 Produce real time NCEP observational and modeling data for specific regions of the
world and in a form that is usable by the community
 Conduct climate diagnostics and more specifically downscale outputs from coupled
global models to improve seasonal predictions; Work to improve sub-seasonal
forecasting from week-1 to week-4.
 Conduct at NCEP a four-month residency training in weather and climate forecasting
for professionals from developing and emerging countries; Conduct offsite training
as part of the NOAA-USAID global climate training workshop series
 Participation in regional climate outlook forums (RCOFs)
24
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
CSIS
RMP
CD
UIP
X
X
X
X
X
X
Niger, and
Egypt
participated
in the
African Desk
training at
NCEP.
Global
(Caribbean,
the IndoGangetic
Plain (and
potentially
Southeast
Asia) and
West Africa.
The IRAP
does
encompass
Belize and
Dominica
through its
Caribbean
activities,
and will
likely include
Burkina
Faso, Niger,
Nepal, and
Bhutan.
The International
Research and
Applications
Project
(IRAP):Integrating
Climate
Information and
Decision
Processes for
Regional Climate
Resilience
Global (West
and Central
Africa,
Central Asia,
and the
Caribbean
Famine
Early
Warning System
Network
(FEWSNET)
NOAA and USAID
Caribbean
Institute for
Meteorology
(CIMH), Regional
Integrated MultiHazard Early
Warning System
for Africa and
Asia) and the
various Regional
Climate Outlook
Forums (RCOFS)
in each region.
The IRAP team is
led by the
International
Research Institute
for Climate and
Society (IRI) and
the University of
Arizona.
USAID
FEWS NET works
closely with
partners in the
food security
community,
including
international
$ 12 Millions
combined from
NOAA and USAID
5 years
(2013-2018)
IRAP supports activities that link climate research and assessments to practical risk
management, the creation of early warning systems and development and adaptation
challenges. It will connect the synthesis, interpretation and translation of physical
climate information, including monitoring and prediction capabilities, with
interdisciplinary applications research on impacts, vulnerabilities and decision making
needs and capabilities of information users, and the enhancement of the institutional
and technical capacity for the application of climate information to support proactive
planning and response. The multi-disciplinary IRAP team will advance five strategic goals
in each region:
1) Determine vulnerabilities and user needs;
2) Co-produce climate information;
3) Create relevant decision support tools;
4) Improve system through evaluation; and
5) Enhance regional and local capacity.
 Based on user needs and capacities identified by workshops and study, IRAP works
with regional and national organizations to co-develop experimental products for
the consideration and evaluation of decision makers in various sectors; one focus of
this effort is the development of sub-seasonal climate information and drought
projections for the Caribbean.
 The IRAP conducts vulnerability and impact focused research, the results of which
can feed into the development and use of effective climate services.
 IRAP supports fellowships and training activities in the regions of interest.
 Members of the IRAP team participate in and contribute to existing Regional Climate
Outlook Forums, which are designed to facilitate the development and discussion of
relevant climate information. The IRAP utilizes these and other events (some of
which are convened directly by IRAP) to employ social science methodologies to
identify user needs and capacities, and explore and evaluate the nature of climate
services in this context.
The latest FEWS NET remote sensing products and data sets are available through portals
on the USGS and NOAA websites. The products include weather forecasts and seasonal
outlooks highlighting trends, hazards, and anomalies, as well as geospatial data and
mapping related to vegetation, rainfall, and water use.
 FEWSNET collects and distributes existing weather information to users via its
web portal
 Weather and Climate products provided to variety of users at the
national(Ministerial) communities, and regional level as well as NGOs,
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Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Building
Resilience and
Adapting to
Climate Extremes
and Disasters
(BRACED)
organizations
such as the World
Food Program
and Food and
Agriculture
Organization and
national
ministries of
agriculture and
trade and
national weather
servicesNOAA,
USGS, USDA, and
NASA
DFID
UK Met Office
NGOs, the private
sector, research
and local
organisations.
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
Global
(Sahel and
South Asia
(including
Burma,
Nepal,
Ethiopia,
Pakistan,
Kenya,
Sudan,
South
Sudan,
Uganda,
Mozambiqu
e, Sahel,
Burkina
Faso, Chad,
Mali,
Mauritania,
Niger and
Senegal)
Global (subSaharan
Africa and
South Asia)
Global
(SubSaharan
Africa, the
Caribbean,
Asia, Pacific
and Europe)


DFID
5 years
CSIS
RMP
X
X
CD
UIP
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
International relief organizations, journalists and researchers.
FEWS NET describes the severity of food insecurity using the Integrated Food
Security Phase Classification version 2.0 (IPC 2.0), High resolution gridded
forecasts have been implemented for the African continent to give
meteorological forecasts out to three days in advancedaily, weekly, 10-day, and
monthly precipitation estimates for the Africa
region. cyclone
monitoring project has been implemented to track potential devastating storm
systems as they approach Africa from the Indian
NOAA provides climate products via a portal on the FEWSNET web site
BRACED aims to build the resilience of over 5 million people to extreme weather events
and has a strong focus on girls and women, to reduce their vulnerability to the impacts of
extreme weather. It will focus on extremely vulnerable areas, such as the Sahel and
South Asia (including Burma, Nepal, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan,
Uganda, Mozambique, Sahel, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal)
and will be delivered through consortiums of NGOs, the private sector, research and
local organisations.
 Poor people receive support to reduce their vulnerability to climate related
shocks and stresses
 Increased capacity of local government, civil society and private sector to
respond to climate related shocks and stresses
 Better understanding of what works in building resilience to climate related
shocks and stresses and integration into DRR approaches
 Improved policies integrating DRR and climate change adaptation are in place at
local, national, regional and international levels
Science for
Humanitarian
Emergencies and
Resilience
(SHEAR)
C3D+ - Capacity
Development for
Adaptation to
Climate Change &
GHG Mitigation in
Non-Annex I
Countries
DFID
UK Met Office
DFID
UNITAR
IISD, CSAG-UCT,
ERC-UCT, ENDATM, SEI, CIFOR,
MIND, CCCCC,
SPREP.
Euros 3,300,000
5 years
2008 ongoing
Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience (SHEAR) aims to enable greater
and more effective investment in disaster resilience and earlier action to respond to
imminent natural hazards by providing decision makers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South
Asia with enhanced analysis and more reliable warning systems.
The C3D+ project supports Non-Annex I countries and institutions to implement national
appropriate actions on climate change adaptation and mitigation through a South-SouthNorth approach. In particular, C3D+ develops and tests tools and methods that help
countries to make planning decisions that take climate change into account. It also
develops the individual skills and institutional capacities to facilitate the use of these
tools for analytical and decision making purposes. C3D+ involves 9 research and training
institutions located in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, Asia, Pacific and Europe. The
Project works in four service areas including: i) Science and information; ii) Vulnerability
and adaptation analysis; iii) Mitigation, and iv) Mainstreaming into planning. In addition,
C3D+ supports complementary capacity development activities for countries to be able
to engage in outreach, networking and knowledge sharing activities.
Under the C3D+ project training and capacity development activities cuts across each of
the four service areas (see section 7). In particular, a series of activities are implemented
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X
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
Global
Global
(WGMS is
active in
more than
30
countries.)
Global
CATCOS Phase 2,
CLIMANDES
MeteoSwiss, SDC
Global
Programme
Climate Change
World Glacier
Monitoring
Service (WGMS)
International
Association of
Cryospheric
Sciences (IACS)
The data
collection is
organized
through a global
cooperative
network of
National
Correspondents
and Principal
Investigators.
The Global
Programme of
Research on
Climate Change
UNEP & WMO
There are no
global financial
resources.
WGMS receives
substantial funds
for the
operations of
the central
service in Zurich
from the
Department of
Geography,
University of
Zurich, and the
Swiss GCOS
Office at the
Federal Office of
Meteorology
and Climatology
MeteoSwiss.
$ 350,000 for the
project of which
$ 200,000 is for
climate services
Started in
1894. Its
duration is
undetermin
ed
as follow:
 Climate science and information services:
Tools are provided to support the development of future climate scenarios and frame
the context that might otherwise seem complex to non-technical audiences.
 Climate vulnerability and adaptation services:
The adaptation tools and methodologies developed through C3D+ help decision-makers
and analysts to identify relevant information and appropriate adaptation options,
with an understanding of present and future climate hazards and socioeconomic
contexts.
 Climate mitigation services:
Mitigation activities supported under C3D+ address the connection between poverty
alleviation, development and reducing greenhouse gases. They focus on national
coordination, emphasizing the need for a better understanding of the interaction
between low carbon growth and economic development.
 Mainstreaming services:
To support the integration of climate change across sectors and to ensure that
development is planned in a climate sensitive way, policy makers need decision
support tools help to analyse and use multiple sources of information.
The project CATCOS Phase 2 – coordinated by MeteoSwiss and financed by the Swiss
Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC Global Programme Climate Change – aims
at improving greenhouse gases, aerosols and glacier measurements in 10 countries
worldwide, including capacity building and twinning of station operators, as well as
regional workshops.
The project CLIMANDES – coordinated by WMO/SENAMHI/MeteoSwiss and financed by
the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC Global Programme Climate
Change – aims at improving climate services in Peru (= GFCS Twinning project between
Peru and Switzerland. It also includes the estimation of socio-economic benefits of
enhanced climate services in Peru.
WGMS is a service of the International Association of the Cryospheric Sciences of the
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IACS, IUGG) as well as of the World Data
System of the International Council for Science (WDS, ICSU) and works under the
auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the World
Meteorological Organization (WMO). WGMS is also part of GTN-G the steering
committee of which is an IACS Standing Group.
CSIS
RMP
X
CD
UIP
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Primary tasks (see also http://www.wgms.ch/tasks.html):
 to collect and publish standardized data on glacier fluctuations at 5-yearly intervals,
to prepare a bulletin reporting mass balance results of selected reference glaciers and ice
caps at 2-yearly intervals
2 years and
beyond
Overarching Objectives
- To advance policy-relevant research on vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation
related to climate change.
- To coordinate and facilitate the dissemination and practical application of this
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Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
X
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
Vulnerability,
Impacts and
Adaptation
(PROVIA)
CSIS
RMP
CD
UIP
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
research for the benefit and value of society.
Specific objectives
- To build a new and important interface between the research community and
decision makers and other stakeholders involved in VIA issues.
- To promote communication between the community of researchers working on
VIA issues and users, by providing a vehicle for exchanging new research results,
encouraging cooperative work on specific research challenges, and providing a
forum for improving the relevance of research.
- To identify VIA research gaps, priorities and critical emerging issues that are
important to both the science and policy communities.
- To provide a new avenue by which decision makers can solicit scientific input to
new critical policy issues.
- To contribute to the capacity building of young scientists in developing
countries to carry out scientific assessments of climate change VIA.
PROVIA with the other components of the World Climate Programme (WCP) will
contribute to the implementation of the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS).
It is the only component in WCP that contributes to the social science component of
WCP.
Global
PantaRhei:
Change in
Hydrology and
Society
Web site:
www.iahs.info/pa
ntarhei
Global
Laying the
foundation for
establishing
sustainable
networks linking
farmers across
Africa and South
Asia for demanddriven climate
services
International
Association
of
Hydrological
Sciences (IAHS)
with regional and
global working
groups on specific
topics. There are
currently 27
working groups,
each of which has
at least six
members from at
least three
countries.
There are no
global financial
resources, each
research group
and/or working
group obtains
their own
funding
USAID
Science
Foundation for
Livelihoods and
Development
(SCIFODE)
Farmers
Associations,
NHMS, NARES,
ICT providers
$149,990
USAID - CCRD
Small Grants
Program
10 years
starting in
July 2013
From 2003 until 2012 IAHS undertook a highly successful project on Prediction in
Ungauged Basins (PUB). The results of PUB have been presented at many international
symposia and published widely in the scientific literature. For the next ten years, IAHS is
building on PUB by using PantaRhei is to develop an improved interpretation of the
processes governing the water cycle by focusing on their changing dynamics in
connection with rapidly changing human systems.
X
X
X
The practical aim of PantaRhei is to improve our capability to make predictions of water
resources dynamics to support sustainable societal development in a changing
environment. The concept implies a focus on hydrological systems as a changing
interface between environment and society, whose dynamics are essential to determine
water security, human safety and development, and to set priorities for environmental
management.
The Scientific Decade 2013–2022 will devise innovative theoretical blueprints for the
representation of processes including change and will focus on advanced monitoring and
data analysis techniques. Interdisciplinarity will be sought by increased efforts to bridge
with the socio–economic sciences and geosciences in general.
2013- 2014
Lay the foundation to establish regional networks that link farmers in Africa and South
Asia to enhance knowledge sharing on climate products and services for on-farm
decision making and for content development that is demand-driven and needbased.
Specifically:
1. To ascertain the farmers' needs in Africa and South Asia for weather and climate
information for on-farm decision making
2. To enumerate the type of climate information and communication channels currently
available and the constraints farmers in Africa and South Asia are facing in
obtaining this information and their applications
3. To lay the foundation to establish an effective network of farmers in Africa and South
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X
X
Country/
Region
Global
Global
Global
Global
Project Title
e-Learning
Platform on
Weather and
Climate Services:
A Value Chain
Approach to
Project Design
Associated
Programme on
Flood
Management
(APFM)
Integrated
Drought
Management
Programme
(IDMP)
WMO
Partner(s)
WBG-PPCR
Global Water
Partnership
(GWP) and WMO
Global
coordination:
Switzerland and
Sweden
Regionally and in
countries:
National
Meteorological
and Hydrological
Services
(NMHSs), GWP
Regional and
Country Water
Partnerships in
collaboration
with WMO
regional offices.
Global
Water
Partnership
(GWP) and WMO
Global
coordination:
Switzerland and
Sweden
Regionally:
GWPRegional and
Country
Water
Partnerships
in
collaboration with
WMO
regional
offices. In Turkey
and Mexico the
Governments of
these countries
have requested
support
from
WMO andGWP.
WMO
Funding
$115,000
Duration
THIS IS
UNDER
DEVELOPME
NT – open
ended
Started
2001 – Open
ended
Objectives
Asia to share knowledge and information on climate services and products for onfarm decision making
4. To review the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) that are currently
being used by farmers in Africa and South Asia and how they can be used for
effective dissemination of climate products and services
The objective of the e-learning platform is: to serve as a quick guide on the entire value
chain of weather and climate services (CS) and demonstrate ways to mainstream this
into the project cycle by providing guidance on key considerations for integrating aspects
of CS into project planning and implementation.
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
O &M
CSIS
RMP
CD
UIP
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Support countries in the integrated management of floods, in the overall context of
IWRM. APFM activities can be summarized in three major categories:
i) Compilation of guidance and advisory materials
ii) Capacity building on IFM, and creation of a network on IFM
iii)Development of pilot projects and support in the implementation of National
Strategies for IFM.
X
X
X
X
Capacity development in Albania, Argentina, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, BosniaHerzegovina, Brazil, Burundi, Cambodia, Chile, China, DR Congo, Croatia, Ecuador,
Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, FYRO Macedonia, Georgia, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq,
Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lao PDR, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mauritania,
Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia,
Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda,
Uruguay, Venezuela, Vietnam.
Environment
Canada; GWPs
financial
partners of
about Euros
3 million over 3
years
Started
2013 – Open
ended
Support countries and communities in the integrated management of droughts, in the
overall context of IWRM, through supporting stakeholders at all levels by providing them
with policy and management guidance through globally coordinated generation of
scientific information and sharing best practices and knowledge for integrated drought
management.
WHOS is the hydrological component of WIGOS, focused initially on the availability of
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X
Country/
Region
Global
Global
Global
Global
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Hydrological
Observing System
(WHOS)
National
Hydrological
Services
web-based real-time data provided by National Hydrological Services. In many instances,
it will also provide access to Hydrological Data. It will also incorporate/ supercede
INFOHYDRO. Activities include the following:
• Map-based portal to hydrological data (primarily river stage and discharge) held
by National Hydrological Services that are freely available online .
• Links to other hydrological databases having global or regional coverage
(WorldWaterOnline)
• Links to existing Global data centers (GRDC, IGRAC, HYDROLARE)
• Access to Hydrological Data in a map-based format will enable overlay/ingestion
into climate information services and associated products
• Training and capacity development in the bringing together of hydrological data
from a basin and /or region.
World
Hydrological Cycle
Observing System
(WHYCOS)
WMO
The World Hydrological Cycle Observing System (WHYCOS) is a WMO programme aiming
at improving the basic observation activities, strengthening the international
cooperation and promoting free exchange of data in the field of hydrology. The
activities:
• Lead to improved observations systems that can include hydrological,
meteorological and climate data.
• Facilitate the establishment of sustainable hydrological monitoring capabilities
that will ultimately lead to data streams appropriate for inclusion in WHOS.
Flood Forecasting
Initative (FFI)
WMO
NMHSs
Extended
Hydrological
Prediction (EHP)
WMO
Commission for
Hydrology
CHy Library Online
WMO
Commission for
Hydrology
The Flood Forecasting Initiative strives to improve the capacity of meteorological and
hydrological services to jointly deliver timely and more accurate products and services
required in flood forecasting and warning, and in collaborating with disaster managers
who are active in flood emergency preparedness and response. Climate services should
be linked to the requirements of flood forecasting and warning services, for example,
seasonal forecasts.
Through a series of regional workshops organized worldwide, the FFI brings national
experts from NMSs and NHSs together to discuss problems, identify major gaps that
should be addressed, and suggest solutions for issues related to strengthening flood
forecasting in their countries. The focus is on improvement of tools and methodologies
for weather- and flood forecasting taking into account also the potential benefit of
seasonal climate prediction.
A CHy initiative for the development of guidelines for National Hydrological Services to
consider when developing an Extended Hydrological Prediction (EHP) service. Activities
include:
• Extension of seasonal climate outlook services to a specific user group
• Seasonal climate outlooks are still in many cases in the realm of research and
development and both statistical and dynamic approaches are being trialed by
both climate and water communities.
• Guidance material describing approaches, giving step-by-step instructions for
the development of EHP services with a water sector focus is being developed.
• Meetings between climatologists and water sector respresentatives have been
organised and held as a contribution to the UIP. The UIP is also a specific step in
service development.
The CHy Library Online is a resource designed to simplify and facilitate access to the
hydrological regulations, guidance materials, technical reports, training courses, and
training materials developed by the WMO for use in hydrological and water resources
applications by the hydrological community worldwide. There are links to training
courses and materials (CapNet, COMET, APFM, etc.)
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Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
X
CSIS
X
RMP
X
CD
X
UIP
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
Country/
Region
Project Title
Partner(s)
Funding
Duration
Objectives
Activities Relevant to GFCS Pillar
O &M
CSIS
RMP
CD
UIP
X
X
X
X
Activities relevant to Priority
Sector
Agric.
Water Health
DRR
Polar
Arctic Polar
Region and
Third Pole
Programme for
Implementing the
Global
Framework for
Climate Services
(GFCS) at Regional
and National
Scales
WMO
(Environment
Canada)
CAD 6.138
million total
programme
funding (~ CAD 1
million for this
region)
4 years
(April 2013March 2017)
The Goal of the Programme is:
to enhance resilience in social, economic and environmental systems to climate
variability and climate change through the development of effective and sustainable
Regional and National Climate Services under the GFCS in selected regions and countries.
All project countries should be able to produce, deliver and apply nationally relevant
climate information.
The Key Results of the Programme are
 Capacities and mechanisms for climate services production and delivery are in place
in Small Island Developing States (Caribbean and South Western Pacific Ocean
Region)
 A framework for climate services for the Arctic Polar Region is established
 Capacities and mechanisms for climate services production and delivery are in place
in South Asia/3rd Pole Region (Himalaya and Tibetan Plateau region)
 Free access to a consolidated, cutting-edge knowledge base on Integrated Drought
Management
 Sustained capacity development for developing country scientists
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X
X
X