Capacity Development needs for the GFCS

1. Capacity Development needs for the GFCS Working Group meeting on Capacity Development 13 December 2011

2. Overview • Development of the GFCS • Capacity building requirements as determined by the HLTF • National capacity building requirements as determined in the GFCS Consultation Meetings • (Regional capacity building needs – Dec. 16th) • Identified common needs

3. Writers Chair EC TT Experts WMO Dep GFCS Office TC RA EC bodies UN members UN Members Experts WMO Members Draft Outline End of August Zero Draft End Jan 2012 2nd Meeting of EC TT 27 Feb –1 Mar 1st Draft 13 April 1st Meeting of EC TT 13 – 15 Oct Review March Consultations Sep - Nov LXIV Session EC 18 – 28 June Extraordinary Congress 29 – 31 October 2012 UIP: Water & Food Sec Health & DRR Review 1st ½ July CSIS Final Doc End Aug 3 rd Meeting EC TT 2nd ½ Aug 2nd Draft Early Aug Research Observations Cap Develop

4. Consultation meetings • Climate Services Information System — (April 2011) • Observations and Monitoring • 1st meeting for WMO and WMO cosponsored programs (August 2011) • 2nd meeting addressing the user communities (in agriculture, Water, health, DRR) (December 2011) • User Interface Platform • Agricultural, Food Security and Water sectors (September 2011, Rome) • Disaster Risk Reduction and Health Stakeholders (November 2011) • Capacity Building — Requirements of NMHSs for the GFCS (October 2011) See reports on http://www.wmo.int/pages/gfcs/office/meetings_en.html 4

5. Questions addressed at meetings (see concept note) • What are the key areas of current and projected applications of the GFCS within the sector (short, medium and long term)? • Which geographic domains are of most relevance to the sectoral needs (global, regional, national)? • What are the key products required from the GFCS and over what space-time scales? • How can GFCS successfully contribute to decision making within the sector over the various space-time scales? • What capacity development is required in the sector of interest (over which space-time scales)? • What are the mechanisms for enhancing communication and uptake of GFCS products within the sector, including the associated feedback? • Who should undertake the capacity development and how will it be funded (over the various space-time scales)? • What role(s) does the sector see being undertaken by NMHSs and WMO (over the various space-time scales)? • What does the sector see as the biggest challenge facing the implementation of the GFCS and what can the sector do to overcome them? • Who are the key partners in capacity development efforts, and what are the optimal ways to pursue and sustain the partnerships? • How does the sector see the coordination and priority setting under the GFCS being done?

6. Capacity building requirements as determined by the HLTF

7. Areas of capacity building • Human capacity • Infrastructural capacity • Institutional capacity • Procedural capacity

8. The investments into Capacity Building under the GFCS

9. Implementation of capacity building in areas • Human capacity building includes: • Increase interaction between providers & users • Improve community collaboration & ability to generate knowledge • Mainstream climate change education into curricula at all educational levels • Train highly skilled human scientific talent for developing countries • Increase access to data, methods & tools

10. Implementation of capacity building in areas • Infrastructural & Institutional capacity building includes: • Establish clear mandates for CS • Identify authoritative services • Implement management process • Enhance interaction between scientific knowledge and local communities and indigenous peoples’ practices • Improve current observation networks, climate databases and computing powers at all levels

11. Example PPPs - Expanding the reach of early warning and climate information FG Hub FG FG Information Provision and Feedback FG FG Electronic screen for meteorological early warning Weather website TV weather forecasting Mobile phone Telephone Early-warning dissemination platform Rural meteorological broadcast Newspapers From Mr. Ramasamy, FAO

12. Implementation of capacity building in areas • Procedural capacity building includes: • Improve communication between scientists and users (i.e. scientist-user interaction platform) • Develop an understanding of the necessary types of climate information for decision making • Develop an understanding of the complexity and uncertainties of climate information • Integrate user needs into applied research programs • Define (quality) standards for climate information generation • Improve climate information through feedback mechanisms

13. Example Guidelines and checklists to ensure adequate procedural capacity • National Level • Mechanism to link with sectoral ministries & departments • Mechanism to ensure rapid dissemination of early warning information • Sector-specific impact warning systems, indicators and alert criteria, and risk/disaster management plans prepared • Capacity to translate early warning information into local languages Provincial/district level • National early warning messages received at the district level • Systems to ensure outreach of EWS to the most vulnerable people in place • Indigenous knowledge incorporated in EW systems • Sector-specific impact outlooks and risk management plans • Mechanisms to translate sector-specific outlook and risk management plans • Monitoring networks covering most vulnerable communities • Community level • Early warning messages are received at the community level • Contingency and response plans prepared matching categories of extreme climate events • Systems to ensure outreach of EWS to the most vulnerable people in place (including, if relevant, translation of messages into local languages) From Mr. Ramasamy, FAO

14. National capacity building requirements as determined in the GFCS Consultation Meetings

16. EXAMPLE:Indicative Capacity Development Priorities:The User Perspectives Supply Demand From Mr. Ramasamy, FAO

21. Identified common needs

22. Train professionals Train intermediaries Train user community Train provider community HUMAN Provide all essential climate Enhance basic infrastucture Enhance observation and Provide adequate maintenance variables (ECVs) in a (power, internet, etc.) monitoring infrastructure (station of the infrastructure continous way and at an and communication network) adequate quality standard INFRA from historic to current data Define and establish Define focal points for the mandates and roles for both GFCS within the provider and the providers and the users the user community INST Expand startegic plans of Provide feedback avenues for Promote multistakeholder Map services, service provider and user climate service users towards meetings for the establishment of providers, service users, community to include climate service providers a Climate Service Framework partnerships and elements relevant to the communication channels and GFCS identifiy gaps PROCEDURAL Determine methodologies for Mobilize and secure financing monitoring the performance for the successful of the GFCS and the climate implementation of the GFCS at service provision at all all levels geographic levels

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