World Bank s Experience in Strengthening Weather, Climate and Hydrological Services

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1 World Bank s Experience in Strengthening Weather, Climate and Hydrological Services Makoto Suwa Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery The World Bank January 13, 2016

2 Example: Hydrological Stations in Angola Civil war ( ) From the study done by Finnish Meteorological Institute

3 Challenges Demand for weather, climate and hydrological services has been increasing NMHSs capacity in many regions is not adequate and considerably degraded in some countries during the last years due to lack of funding Donor support to the sector is below basic needs, short-term and usually not well coordinated

4 Investment Needs High priority hydromet modernization investment needs in the World exceed US$ billion Minimum USD million per year is necessary to support operations of the modernized NMHSs systems

5 Selected WB Hydromet and EWS projects Moldova: 4.8M (IDA) Yemen: 19M (PPCR) Central Asia: 27.7M (IDA/PPCR) Afghanistan Mexico: 105M (IBRD) Under implementation Concept Stage Identification GFDRR TA only Albania Croatia Bangladesh: 75M (IDA) Mali: (GCF) India Cambodia and Lao PDR Haiti: 5.5M (PPCR) Ghana Togo São Tomé and Príncipe Zambia: 3.8M (PPCR) Niger Lesotho Ethiopia Malawi Nepal: 31M (PPCR/IDA) Mozambique: 21M (PPCR/IDA/NDF) Myanmar: 30M (IDA) Philippines Vietnam: 30M (IDA) Honduras and Nicaragua Pacific (Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu): 26.95M (IDA) Peru Jamaica: 6.8M (PPCR)

6 Capacity Building and Analytical Support Best practices in Multi-Hazard EWS CMA/SMS Shanghai March 2012, October 2013 Weather and climate resilience: effective preparedness through national meteorological and hydrological services (2013), The World Bank Valuing Weather and Climate: Economic Assessment of Meteorological and Hydrological Services (2015), WMO-USAID-The World Bank/GFDRR Sustaining National Meteorological Services Strengthening WMO Regional and Global Centres US NWS-WMO-GFDRR, Washington DC, June 2013

7 Investment Approach

8 Example of hydromet project: Myanmar Cyclone Nargis: About 140,000 people were killed Myanmar is highly vulnerable to natural disasters (cyclones, floods, storm surge) Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) and early warning system are weak and need significant support WB reached agreement with the government that improvement of DMH and EWS will be a part of the Ayeyarwady Integrated River Basin Management Project (USD 100M) GFDRR Hydromet Program was requested to design DMH modernization component of the project and establish partnership with donors and WMO Project became effective First activities are under way Image WMO experts contributed to the design and will participate in coordination and implementation of future activities such as Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project, Impact based Forecasting and National Framework for Climate Services First national donor coordination conference for improvement of hydromet services WMO, JICA, WB, GFDRR jointly supported

9 Example of hydromet project: Myanmar Ayeyarwady Integrated River Basin Management Project (USD 100M, of which hydromet component: USD 30.15M) Component A: Institutional Strengthening, Capacity Building and Implementation Support of DMH (USD 6.0M) A.1: Institutional strengthening and development of a legal and regulatory framework (USD 0.5M) A.2: DMH capacity building and training (USD 2.9M) A.3: Systems design and integration, component management and monitoring (USD 2.6M) Component B: Modernization of the Observation Infrastructure, Data Management Systems and Forecasting (USD 17.1M) B.1: Technical modernization of the observation networks (USD 9.25M) B.2: Modernization of DMH data management, communication and IT system (USD 5.35M) B.3: Improvement of numerical weather prediction system and hydrological modeling system (USD 1.9M) B.4: Reconstruction and refurbishment of DMH offices and facilities (USD 0.6M) Component C: Enhancement of the DMH Service Delivery System (USD 7.05M) C.1: Introduction of Public Weather and Hydrological Service (USD 1.2M) C.2: Support of DRM operations including introduction of impact forecasting and expansion of "end-to-end" EWS in several small river basins with floods and flash floods (USD 1.6M) C.3: Development of Agriculture and Climate Advisory Service (ACAS) (USD 2.9M) C.4: Creation of the National Framework of Climate Services (USD 1.35M)

10 Africa Regional Framework Program to Improve Hydromet Services Africa Regional System Integration - Improved access to and production of global products - Knowledge and advisory services to support strategic development, project preparation and management, coordination and service delivery - Coordination with AMCOMET, GFCS Modernization of WMO Regional Centers - Strengthening capacity and management to enhance transboundary cooperation on weather and flood forecasting, early warning and climate prediction. National/Sub-National - Institutional strengthening and capacity building of targeted NMHSs - Modernization of hydromet infrastructure - Improving service delivery including development of National Framework of Climate Services

11 Climate Risk Early Warning System (CREWS)

12 Summary Needs for investing in NHMHs are large Opportunities are emerging (Africa Regional Hydromet, CREWS etc) Long term capacity development effort is an integral part of the modernization process