Name of Participant: Joseph Saidu Bangura ( a.k.a.Kabileh )

1. Name of Participant: Joseph SaiduBangura (a.k.a.Kabileh) Designation: Asst. Director M & E Unit, Planning Evaluation Monitoring & Statistics Division /MAFFS

2. National Focal Point: Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel and West Africa (CILSS /WA)

3. How CILSS Operates in Sierra Leone: • ECOWAS’ Memorandum of Understanding with CILSS requires CILSS to extend its mandate of improving food security and nutrition in ECOWAS member states. • CILSS executes remote monitoring of the food balance sheet of Sierra Leone through agricultural sample surveys; pre-harvest assessment missions and annual regional consultations on the food production trends;

4. Purpose of CILSS • To enhance the skills of national actors to master harmonized tools needed for monitoring the food & nutrition situation of member states • To assess food insecurity and vulnerability situation at the national and sub-national levels; • To enhance timely and appropriate policy decision & effective programme responses;

5. Results of CILSS Result 1.Harmonize tools and methodologies for assessing the state of food security and nutrition among concerned agencies. • Result 1Establish a regular system of monitoring relevant agricultural and food security indicators of member states; • Result 1Predict vulnerability of member states to food insecurity; and recommend optional responses that will prevent and manage national food crises; • Result 1Establish a comprehensive data base on agriculture, food security; nutrition & vulnerability;

6. Operational structures of CILSS • CILSS Focal Team in Sierra Leone • Spear-head the mandate of CILSS by coordinating the efforts of partners and other stakeholders; build capacity and team work • Report progress to CILSS through the sector Management system • Multi-disciplinary Working Group • Initiate and participate in the strategy for coordinating the Famine Early Warning System & remotely monitor the food & nutrition situation (Sustain team spirit; share experiences and validate data)

7. \National Coordinator: Sierra Leone Famine Early Warning System & Remote Monitoring(FEWS NET &RM) commodity market and price trends; and vulnerability of the population coordinated by PEMSD/ MAFFS.

8. Actions by FEWS NET in 2010 • Reviewed the Food Economy zones from eight (8) established in 2001 to ten(10) in 2010 • Developed the commodity trade flow maps • Trained the multi-disciplinary network in 2010

9. Purpose of FEWS NET • To establish and sustain a national commodity market information system

10. Focal Point: Europe Aid African Monitoring of the Environment for Sustainable Development (AMESD)

11. AMESD Program • A continental Pan-African Project. • Anchored in the Commission for Agriculture, Environment and Water Resources of the ECOWAS Commission in Addis Ababa • ECOWAS - One of the five Regional Economic Commissions (RECs) participates in the programme under the auspices of the European Development Fund and African Caribbean Pacific (ACP) Secretariat.

12. AMESD Program: Purpose • To improve decision making processes in the fields of environmental resources and environmental risks management in Africa.

13. AMESD: General Objectives • Result 1: Improve accessmember states to existing basic Earth observation field and ancillary data • Result 2: Establish operational information servicesto improve decision-making processes in the fields of environmental management and other policies.

14. AMESD : General Objectives • Result 3: Strengthen the political and policy developmentframework to ensure active and sustainable participation of African governments in the global environmental surveillance. • Result 4: Permanently ensure adequate technical levelof AMESD African stakeholders.

15. AMESD: Operational Objectives Facilitate access of state actors to environmental information & data derived from Earth Observation technologies / radar data • Operate a geo-information services • Strengthening information management capacity of state and non-actors to support decision and policy making processes

16. AMESD:Capacity Building at the Country Level 2009 & 2010 • Upgrade of PUMA station network for reception of the AMESD products • Installed new AMESD station at PEMSD/ MAFFS • Organized information workshops on AMESD products • Providedexternal training for the national focal teams • National Annual Workshops for DecisionMakers and Networks

17. AMESD:Capacity Building at the Country Level(2009 & 2010) • Deployed one AMESD National Focal Point/ Administrator to coordinate the exchange of AMESD products and their use in decisionmakingthrough a web platform • Deployed one Thematician /Focaster to regularlymount the station and download and file EO data intorepspectivethematic data • Established AMESD Web page for info. sharing

18. ECOWAS (REC):Specific Thematic Project • Water resource management for cropland and rangeland management and monitoringfor sustainable management of environmental resources

19. AMESD: Main intervention areas • Monitor rainfall & drought and their impacts on crops and pastures (Vegetation Index) • Monitor the levels of small water bodies to support range land management.(Livestock &Wildlife bio-diversity • Monitoring trends of bush fires and estimate burnt areas . • Monitor the trend and intensity of forest land degradation

20. Events Related to Climate Change • AMESD is a plat form on climate change and ecological induced hazards on the agriculture chain and their impacts. • Hazards increase vulnerability across a range of sectors ( Livelihood & asset Sectors) • One example of livelihood sectors is agriculture which is an important component of the economy

21. Asset Sector: Soil – for agriculture • Agricultural lands /soils are degraded but the severity of such degradation is not monitored. • When the adverse effects of such hazards occur, the poor people are hardest hit. (factor of the HDI) • Floods, land slide & erosion affect agricultural production • This happen because the precursor for those hazards go unnoticed • Many threatening climatic hazards are not forwarded for administrative hazards.

22. Water for Agriculture • Increase in the frequency and intensity of drought due to changes in rainfall, lead to increase in temperature and global warming. • Global warmingmelt ice mountains and lead to slow and steady rise in sea level • Decrease in historical rainfall data and ground water is also experienced • Erratic rainfall that leads to floods

23. Water for Agriculture • Floods have impacts on human health due to contamination of safe drinking points, spread of diseases and deaths. • Floods also have implication on food security due to destruction of food items and crop fields • Foods affects ability to grow crops and aspects of the food value chains as drying and storage and market

24. Rain Fall Data • The on set dates of the rains have been erratic • Crop water requirement –whether satisfactory or not during planting, flowering and harvesting • Potential crop yields become affected • Amount of herbaceous biomas is affected • The food balance is disturbed and social and economic stability is disrupted

25. Forest – for shelterand Biodiversity • The stages of vegetation cover growth and variation from zones • Extent of national vegetation is affected: i. In relation to water stress ii. Vegetation index • Intensitycurrent deforestation is alarming • Movement of livestock and wildlife is a response to vegetation re-growth potential and water availability

26. Bush Fires • Active fires (November –April) • Burnt area estimates • Incidents /trends of bush fires • Frequency of bush fire occurrences • Validation of the radar data /ground truthing

27. Trend in Global Average Surface Temperaturesince 1860

28. What are the products of AMESD? • The products constitute extreme weather events E.g. • Rain fall forecast and estimate • Clouds forecast • Storms Forecast

29. Validation of Small Water Bodies in Sierra Leone (2012)

30. Validation of Bush Fiers in Sierra Leone (Feb 2010 & Feb 2011 ) Active bush fires February 15, 2011 Active bush fires February 5, 2010

31. Livestock Benefits from water Bodies

32. Bush Fires and Burnt Areas

33. TAMSAT DAKADAL RAINFALL ESTIMATE in Sierra Leone for the month of August 2012

34. Projected Changes in Global Temperature since 1856-1999

35. Temperature Increase and sea Level Rise