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COUNTRY PRESENTATION-TANZANIA

By Wilbert Timiza AND Mohamed Mwabumba Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA) Email: met@meteo.go.tz Website: www.meteo.go.tz

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COUNTRY PRESENTATION-TANZANIA

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  1. By Wilbert Timiza AND Mohamed Mwabumba Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA) Email: met@meteo.go.tz Website: www.meteo.go.tz Training Workshop NMHSsonDesigningSocio-EconomicBenefitStudiesofMeteorological/Hydrological Services andProducts for SADC, Mahe, Seychelles 4-8 May 2015. COUNTRY PRESENTATION-TANZANIA

  2. Presenters • WILBERT TIMIZA: SeniorMeteorologist in the International Regional Cooperation Office Tel.: +255 22 246 0706 Fax: +255 22 246 0735 E-mail: wilbert.timiza@meteo.go.tz • Mohamed Mwabumba:Meteorologist in the Research Section Tel: +255 22 246 0706 Fax: +255 22 246 0735 E-mail: mwabbumba@yahoo.co.uk

  3. CONTENTS • INTRODUCTION • IMPORTANCE OF METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES • ROLE OF METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES IN TRANSPORT SECTOR DEVELOPMENT • METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES FINANCE • PERFORMANCE REVIEW • CHALLENGES FACING THE SECTOR • CONCLUSION AND RECCOMMENDATION • AREAS NEED IMPROVEMENTS

  4. CONTENTS • INTRODUCTION • IMPORTANCE OF METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES • ROLE OF METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES IN TRANSPORT SECTOR DEVELOPMENT • METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES FINANCE • PERFORMANCE REVIEW • CHALLENGES FACING THE SECTOR • CONCLUSION AND RECCOMMENDATION • AREAS NEED IMPROVEMENTS

  5. BACKGROUND: Tanzania • Tanzania is country located in East Africa. • Tanzania was formed in 1964 Shortly after achieving independence from Britain in 1961, by merging Tanganyika and Zanzibar. • According to the 2012 census, the total population was 44,928,923. • Ethnic groups include,mainland - African 99% (of which 95% are Bantu consisting of more than 130 tribes), other 1% (consisting of Asian, European, and Arab); Zanzibar - Arab, African, mixed Arab and African

  6. GDP per capita is $1,700 (2013 est.) country comparison to the world: 200 • GDP composition by the centre of origin: • agriculture: 27.6% • industries: 25% • services: 47.4% (2013 est.) • Main industries include:agricultural processing (sugar, beer, cigarettes, sisal twine); mining (diamonds, gold, and iron), salt, soda ash; cement, oil refining, shoes, apparel, wood products, fertilizer

  7. Major climate and weather related hazards in Tanzania are floods and droughts, which have important reminders of the deadly effects of climate change to Tanzania • Tanzania experience two major rainfall regimes namely the Unimodal (Southern) and bimodal (Northern parts) • Unimodal is experienced from November to May while • Bimodal is normally during March to May (Long rains) and October to December (Short Rains)

  8. LOCATION MAP OF TANZANIA

  9. BACKGROUND: TANZANIA MET AGENCY(TMA) • The Tanzania Meteorological Agency is the Government Agency under the Ministry of Transport was established on 3rd December 1999. Currently is served by 593 employees distributed across all over the country. • The main responsibilityof TMA are to provide weather and climate services to cater the need of various socio-economic sectors including Agriculture, tourism, transport, energy, environment, mining, early warning on severe weather events. • Also, monitoring climate and projection of climate variability and change for the development of adaptation and mitigation measures

  10. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES PROVIDED • Public Weather Service • include daily weather information, forecasts and warnings, onset and cessation of seasonal rains and issuance of drought warnings. • These services categorized as “public good” are made freely available through the media e.g. radios, TVs and newspapers

  11. Aviation weather service • TMA has an obligation to provide aviation weather services to both local and international air navigation as required by the WMO, Technical Regulations and ICAO Annex 3 of the Chicago convention.   • TMA provides aeronautical meteorological services to 4 International Airports and 17 National airports. • During the period under review a total of 22,278 aircrafts were served by TMA.

  12. Marine weather services • The provision of Marine Meteorological and Oceanographic services supporting safety of life and property at sea and prevention of marine pollution is another important task of TMA

  13. MARINE WEATHER FORECAST ISSSUED AT DAR PORT

  14. Climate Services • TMA has a responsibility to collect, data quality, archiving, retrieval and processing. • Climate trend analysis is carried out to detect climate change. • Interpretation of Seasonal climate forecasts for national use to assist in planning socio-economic activities • Serve various clients of data and climate information services.

  15. Agriculture Weather Service • This is an important service provided by TMA • In Tanzania this is a high priority area because agriculture plays a significant role in the national economy and is affected by weather and climate variability.

  16. Other sectors • TMA has the responsibility to provide weather information to various other sectors, such as energy production, water resources, insurance, environmental protection, tourism, the construction industry and others

  17. PERFORMANCE ...... • TMA provides severe weather guidance products for Lake Victoria Regions through Severe Weather Demonstration Project for capacity building for Eastern Africa (SWFDP) supported by WMO and UK-MET Office. • TMA continued with implementation of QMS basing on ISO standards where by surveillance audit executed on December 2012 and there was no major non-conformity found that implied improvement of the QMS Systems.

  18. Meteorologist using video tele-conference in provision of severe weather guidance products.

  19. TMA services are (ISO 9001:2008 ) certified as shown in this picture

  20. Major Challenges facing the sector • The current station network does not meet the demand of having enough meteorological data for production of daily and seasonal weather forecasts and for adverse weather and extreme events warning. • Acquisition of modern equipment and instruments for delivery of quality services is another challenge facing TMA due to the fact that most of the modern equipment are expensive and also imported from outside the country

  21. Major challenges..... • Lack of own building for Central Forecasting Office due to the fact that the Agency is paying higher rent; whereby there is insufficient space for installation of some meteorological equipments and instruments that requires permanent installation. • Inadequate monitoring equipment and research on climate change and insufficient public awareness. • Limitation in annual budget allocation.

  22. PLAN TO ADDRESS THE CHALLENGES

  23. 7. Conclusion and EXPECTATION • TMA has an investment Plan that costs US$ 25.96 million which is equivalent to TZS 44,132 million for improving meteorological service delivery to transport sector and other sectors in the Tanzania economy. • Hence the need for Development Partners including Private Sectors to support the efforts of TMA in this plan and provision of even better meteorological services in Tanzania.

  24. 7. Conclusion and EXPECTATIONS • For achieving Development goals the nation should use all resources it has. Meteorological services are among important resources for safe, sustainable and reliable socio-economic development. • Main funding source for Meteorological services in Tanzania is from the Government. • Support from development partners always enhance these efforts to provide better services to various socio-economic sectors in the country. • We expect to learn how to develop Socio-economic benefit studies for our NMHS. • Sharing of experience from the participating countries on on SEB initiatives

  25. ASANTENI SANA THANK YOU FOR LISTENING

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