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Consultation meeting with health and DRR Stakeholders: The User Interface Platform of the Global Platform for Climate services November 2011

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Page 1: November 2011 - gfcs.wmo.int · 5. The role of intermediaries 6. Scaling up learning on strengthening science policy dialogue efforts from pilot and context‐specific applications

Consultation meeting with health and DRR  Stakeholders: 

The User Interface Platform of 

the Global Platform for Climate services November 2011

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Truly two‐way 

Scaling up 

Dialogue approaches 

Some potential quick wins 

Medium and longer term wins 

Measuring impact

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Two‐way: Only through direct, sustained and collaborative partnership will: 

•  Humanitarian and development end users know what questions to ask of emerging climate science and 

•  Climate scientists  and meteorologists be able to understand how the climate data which they produce can better inform specific humanitarian and development decision making processes and contexts. 

Addressing uncertainties from the user decision making context

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1.  Identifying the humanitarian significance of scientific learning 

2.  The degree of scientific literacy required to make appropriate use of evolving scientific learning 

3.  Identifying and developing effective forms of dialogue 

4.  Partnerships which harness respective scientific and humanitarian competencies 

5.  The role of intermediaries 

6.  Scaling up learning on strengthening science policy dialogue efforts from pilot and context‐specific applications 

7.  Measuring the right things: developing shared metrics for vulnerability and science policy approaches

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ü  How much do you need to know to appropriately apply climate science within humanitarian policies, programmes and projects? 

ü  How much do humanitarian organisations and the communities and partners with whom they work know? 

ü  What more could they do if they had deeper understanding of climate science and how it could be used? 

Moving user understanding closer to available 

Weather and climate information provision

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Climate scientists/ Meteorologists 

ü  Senegal National Meteorological Agency 

ü  Kenya Meteorological Department 

ü  UK Met Office Hadley Centre 

And the universities of: 

ü  Liverpool 

ü  Oxford 

ü  Sussex 

Humanitarian and development policy makers from: 

üChristian Aid 

üRed Cross Senegal 

üCAFOD 

üOxfam GB 

ü +  Working group bringing in a much wider group of climate scientists and humanitarian and development organisations

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§  Contextualise emerging understanding of climate science; 

§  Strengthen the access of humanitarian and development organisations to sources of climate science expertise; 

§  Improve climate scientists’ understanding of the climate information needs of humanitarian and development users ; 

§  Strengthen humanitarian and development policymakers’ understanding of the current levels of certainty; and 

§  Support humanitarian and development policymakers’ ability to act on climate information.

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Senegal – 

§  Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment 

§  EWEA workshop 

§  MoU between CRS and ANAMS 

§  Pilot in 3 communities 

§  Evaluation, Technical consultation, in preparation for exchange activities for 2012 rainy season 

Kenya – •Initial consultation Feb 2011 •Presentation at GHACOF Mar 2011 •Community workshop Mbeere •Integration within CCSMKE SALI project •Ongoing Baseline Survey •MOU KMD and Christian Aid underway •SMS on market/trade to integrate weather and climate information 

UK •Ongoing science‐ humanitarian policy working group Meetings co‐hosted with NERC, UK Met Office Hadley Centre, forthcoming with NCAS/ Walker Institute, Reading University

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§  Access 

§  Understanding 

§  Appropriate application 

The resources and approaches for each of these

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§  Early Warning‐Early Action §  Participatory downscaling §  Timelines to identify the types and timeframes of scientific and 

community information §  Competency groups enabling users to inform modelling §  Forecasting card games §  Identifying relevant decision making thresholds §  Community early warning through blending scientific and community 

information, §  Identifying appropriate and timely entry points where weather and 

climate information can best inform DRR decision making within organisations and communities. 

Discussion on appropriate formats (deterministic/probabilistic) for weather and climate information at different time frames, media channels, intermediary bodies, 

Identifying, trialling and developing approaches for tackling different parts of the dialogue

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Repeated message on the part of humanitarian users of climate information: 

“It was the first time that I was in a space in which scientists, development partners and some implementers were convened in the same space to talk about climate”

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§  All humanitarian and development  organisations and community groups said that climate information was integral or significant to their decision making, with many noting that its importance is increasing. 

§  All climate scientists thought community organisations understood climate information poorly. 

§  Climate science expertise and climate science policy fora are not readily accessible to national NGOs and community groups working outside Nairobi. 

§  All humanitarian and development organisations and community groups said that increased links with scientists would improve their work. 

§  All scientists said that a greater dialogue with ‘end users‘ would cause them to work more to meet end users’ needs.

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§  Both climate scientists and humanitarian/community users agreed on the need for closer engagement. 

§  Humanitarian/community users consult ANAMS more than any other source of climate information. The second most used source is national media. 

§  Access to information on the internet is very varied, and extremely limited for community users due to lack of electricity as well as coverage. 

§  Climate scientists think policymakers/decision takers understand climate information , while humanitarian policymakers/community decision takers think climate science is moderately/difficult to understand. 

§  Climate scientists think alerts are the most important type of information, but humanitarian/community decision makers think the most important is temporal distribution within the seasonal forecast.

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Engagement across the humanitarian, DRR and development organisations and the communities and partner with whom they work 

Build weather and climate information into existing trusted systems for communication (extension, SMS, radio) 

Collaborate with complementary science‐policy initiatives in other disciplines (e.g. SHED in the UK ) 

Develop information for groups of users rather than in terms of types of climate information e.g. Farmers’ Forecast?

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§  Formally recognise and resource a new mandate for Nat Met Offices §  Allow a range of users access to platforms to jointly identify climate information needs §  Identify and collate best practice §  Identify existing sources of climate information to which national met offices do not have access and enable them to gain access §  Allow space for community innovation on best forms of local information sharing

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Use the climate research capacity available Enable users to inform the research agenda – can start soonest 

Build established spaces to share learning on approaches for making best use of weather and climate information for DRR (international, regional, national, district, community levels)

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1.  Identifying and recognising the weakest links §  Appropriate channels of communication §  Relevant format of climate information §  Language conveying uncertainty in accurate and understandable ways §  Support for appropriate application 

2.  Clarifying roles and key focal points 3.  Securing resources 4.  Creating space for systematic dialogue directly between 

providers and a range of users – it is an ongoing learning process 

5.  Scaling up and establishing a regular space to pool learning from across geographical regions and scientific disciplines