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PARTNERSIPS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE WMO COMMUNITY Mary Power Director Resource Mobilization Office

PARTNERSIPS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE WMO COMMUNITY Mary Power Director Resource Mobilization Office Development Co-operation and Regional Activities TECO – 2010 Helsinki 30 Aug – 1 Sept. Development Support Mechanisms. Regular budget supported activities;

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PARTNERSIPS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE WMO COMMUNITY Mary Power Director Resource Mobilization Office

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  1. PARTNERSIPS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE WMO COMMUNITY Mary Power Director Resource Mobilization Office Development Co-operation and Regional Activities TECO – 2010 Helsinki 30 Aug – 1 Sept

  2. Development Support Mechanisms • Regular budget supported activities; • WMO Voluntary Cooperation Programme (VCP); • WMO Programme and Fund for the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) • Major Trust Fund supported development activities • Emergency Assistance Fund • Fellowship Fund • Member to member bi-lateral assistance

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

  4. DRA DEPARTMENT Resource Mobilization Office (crosscutting WMO) Office for the LDCs and Regional Coordination (cc) WMO Regional Office for Africa WMO Regional Office for Asia & SW Pacific WMO Regional Office for Americas WMO Regional Office for Europe Brazil ProjectOffice Mexico Project Office WMO Office for NCWA WMO Office for ESA WMO Office for West Asia WMO Office for SW Pacific WMO Office for NCAC WMO Office for S America (30/08/04)

  5. WMO REGIONAL OFFICES EU Geneva UN HQ Bahrain Nigeria Costa Rica Kenya Samoa Paraguay

  6. Voluntary Cooperation Programme • Short-term fellowships • Expert services • Equipment maintenance , upgrades and replacement • Communications used mainly for rapid response for minor interventions: • GTS • Climatology and Climate databases • Telecommunications • TV Presentation Systems • Operational hydrology activities; • Surface and upper-air stations; • high priority programmes

  7. Voluntary Cooperation Programme VCP Mechanisms • VCP (Trust) Fund (VCP-F) • VCP Coordinated Equipment and Services (VCP-ES) • Emergency Assistance Fund (EAF) • http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/dra/vcp_en.php

  8. 1.5 M USD

  9. VCP – become a recipient / partner Info on funds Request documents VCP requests

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

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

  12. REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES Central Asia & Caucus SE EUROPE SE EUROPE SIDS CARIBBEAN IGAD ICPAC Lake Victoria W AFRICA SIDS PACIFIC SADC & E AFRICA IBERO AMERICA 20M USD Many smaller single country projects also

  13. RESOURCE MOBILISING • Partnership with European Commission, WB, AfDB, IDB, various ODA directly or through the national NMHS (Spain, Finland, UK, USA, Japan, Korea, Italy, Saudi Arabia, China, Russia, etc) • Funding agency priorities related to NMHSs: • Disaster management/early warning • Adaptation to climate change • Food production, energy, health • Advocacy of NMHSs for donors, governments & regional organisations with respect to national funding sources (GEF, ACP, WB etc)

  14. Challenges Infrastructure funding, especially upper air obs is difficult to secure – need to find an innovative solution to upper air consumables. WMO capacity to review equipment procurement requests and tender documents is severely constrained. Absorptive capacity of some DCs and LDCs to participate to regional projects cana be an issue. Project management resources within WMO need strengthening WMO Response Institutionalising new project management and risk management framework Project Management DataBase Dedicated project management staff – reassignment of positions, secondments and JPO. Exploration of concept of “Volunteerism” within WMO (cf Engineers without Borders) for technical assistance and emergency response with CBS and some members.

  15. Challenges Programmatic Approach – multi year / multi country programmes are the optimal situation in terms of extra-budgetary support for NMHSs, rather than one time project funding and preferably in respect of regional development programmes current situation is a mix of project and programmatic funding with the trend still being towards project support but increasingly we are securing regional multi-annual programmes. WMO Response WMO is seeking accreditation as Multi-lateral Implementing Agency with the Adaptation Fund (and GEF) and is currently in discussions with the AF Review Board. WMO is encouraging donors and partners to replicate some of the models we have established such as with Spain and Finland (multi-country/multi-year support to projects in Africa and other regions. Member countries to “bundle” assistance to and through WMO (as per US) for better tracking and management and coordination other donors – more coordination among donor members – IPM etc.

  16. Thank You

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