Lessons learnt from successful IOC programs [TTR, HAB

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Some Background - IOC Capacity development
ChallengeLessons for a New Strategy

• Lessons learnt from successful IOC programs TTR,
  HAB IODE are
• Enhance the reach and sustainability of training
• Involve decision-makers for continued support
• Ensure science created is understandable by
  society
• The IOC Assembly in June 2005 approved a 3 phase
  strategy to
• Strengthen institutes
• Raise awareness of decision-makers communities
• Enrol civil society in good governance
• IOC was also required to make base-line
  assessments in regions
• An initial Implementation Plan was approved.

Moving from Strategy to Implementation
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Formulating a New Strategy Self-driven
Capacity-building

• Phase 1 of the Implementation plan
• Empower networks of directors with Leadership
  skills
• Support networks of scientists with
  Proposal-writing skills
• Build scientific teams to collaborate on funded
  projects
• Phase 2 trains in elements of a Decision Support
  System to
• Deliver visible local benefits based on science
• Use existing data operational products where
  possible
• Create openings for research education
• Phase 3 will work with Member States on
• ways and means to support Capacity-development
  for science research
• and operational systems. IOC will forge new
  Partnerships for social
• sciences, management, public information legal
  matters.

How will the implementation proceed?
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Implementation Plan Flow diagram
First year
Third year
Second year
Leadership
Leadership teams
Leadership teams
I. Strengthen scientific, legal
institutional structures
Proposal writing for major CB project
Teams
Joint attendance
II. Raise awareness of decision-makers with
modern tools
Continuous field monitoring of interventions
GIS workshop
Coastal Modeling workshop
RS workshop

Media
Decision makers
III. Enroll communities
Social sciences
Community Based Organisations
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First steps
leadership

• Implementation
• 1st Leadership WkshopOct 2005, Mozambique
• Tutorials started
• First sponsorship from SIDA received
• Partnerships with technology suppliers
• Repeat in Caribbean
• Seek new funds for 3 more regions

Personal mastery leadership workshop -
directors of E African marine institutes
Vision Networked scientist creating products
demanded by decision-makers
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Other steps in the spirit of ownership
looking for all opportunities to develop
capacity.

• ADRICOSM operational forecasting for the
  Adriatic sea with IODE experience in data
  management
• COAST-MAP-IO capacity to collect and use
  near-shore bathymetry for safety in the coastal
  zone
• Preparing first workshop on operational products
  and tools in East Africa

• Enhance country expertise to produce
  high-resolution bathymetric and topographic maps
  in the coastal zone
• Provide modelling capacity for tsunami arrival,
  run-up and inundation
• Provide national disaster management agencies
  with tools and training (inundation maps,
  set-back lines, zonation for coastal users)

All the above benefit and will contribute to a
stronger GOOS community
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Near-shore bathymetric data for coastal modelling
and operational products looking beyond tsunamis
Bathymetric data
Tsunami-modelling, storm surge modelling
Coastal modelling
Coastal zone planning
Disaster preparedness
New services from country scientists
Long-term scientific growth
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Base-line Assessments in East African regional
institutes

• Mozambique Institutes dealing with coastal
  issues, navigation, fisheries, university,
  meteorology
• Tanzania university and marine science
  institute
• Kenya university, fisheries, meteorology,
  coastal authority.
• What have we learnt?
• The good news Structures exist, good HR
  quality, awareness of science for societal
  problems, leadership program endorsement by
  NEPAD, Kenya Mozambique ministers, UNEP
• The other news Low functional equipment,
  funding awareness of global programs,
  products services. High brain-drain,
  non-use of training,

What remains is what originates from within
Tanzania driven funded (50 million) coastal
management project
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Great Exceptions. An example INAM, Mozambique
Leadership committed to the change process of
INAM into a service- oriented organisation
reducing administration, improving professional
qualifications, outsourcing non-core activities,
collaborating with operational met services,
increasing funding flows, strong links to
government, awareness of global programs..
But in general we need to work grass-roots up.
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Self-driven capacity development
Advisories - IOC, GOOS, GSSC,..
Needs analysis, Funding proposals, Projects
Training programs
Capacity development in Models,
remote-sensing, GIS
Regional Priorities thru NEPAD
Ministries, institutes, Industries, communities
Societal benefits
Products services
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Priorities expressed for East Africa (I) NEPAD,
IOC, Coastal G
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Priorities expressed for East Africa (II) (NEPAD,
GSSC, IOC)
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Developing operational products and services
Remote sensingSST, chloroph, habitat map
in-situ data (sea-level, bathymetry)
Global models Winds, tides, waves
First step develop capacity At this interface -
providing Societal benefits from Existing data
Coastal models
GIS
IODE Virtual Lab
Operational Products and services in the
coastal zone
Developing local support for GOOS through
immediate, visible local benefits
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IOC Capacity-development and GOOS

• June 2005 IOC Assembly high-priority to the use
  of GOOS component to address regional concerns
• Importance of CD for GOOS developing global
  support/use, enhancing prediction skills with
  more observations
• Support from SIDA for
• Self-driven capacity-development leadership of
  directors, teams of scientists, proposal-writing
  skills
• Operational/GOOS products and tools coastal
  modelling, remote-sensing, GIS

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IOC-IODE resources for operational products in
Africa

• Data sea-level gauges and data streams, 12 new
  gauges to be installed
• Interface to product/service development virtual
  laboratory computing power and model run
  expertise available through the internet (in
  development)
• Products for societal benefits marine
  biodiversity database, regional marine atlases
  (in development)

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Some great exceptions to the rule INAM,
Mozambique

• Director committed to changing INAM into a
  service- oriented organisation over a 10 year
  period reducing administration, improving
  professional qualifications, outsourcing non-core
  activities, collaborating with operational met
  services, increasing funding flows, strong links
  to government, awareness of global programs,
• Provide modelling capacity for tsunami arrival,
  run-up and inundation
• Provide national disaster management agencies
  with tools and training (inundation maps,
  set-back lines, zonation for coastal users)

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Requested products ODINAFRICA
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Available data for operational products in East
Africa

• ODINAFRICA near-real time sea-level
• Remote-sensing chlorophyll pilot project (?)
• Models

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• NEPAD Priorities
• coastal erosion and flooding
• management of key ecosystems and habitats
  models and other tools
• pollution, sustainable use of living resources
  
• tourism

Products and services To address the priorities
Datasets and Training needs to Develop products
And services
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• GSSC Priorities
• exposure to waterborne pathogens from sewage
• coastal erosion and flooding,
• coastal mariculture

Products and services To address the priorities
Datasets and Training needs to Develop products
And services
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Priorities identified in IOC consultation Water
and sedimentanalysis Models for coastal
management systems Coastal zone vulnerability
indices and mapping Exchange programs
regionally and inter-regionally of students
and lecturers
Products and services To address the priorities
Datasets and Training needs to Develop products
And services
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Developing operational products in Africa IODE
contribution
sea-level gauges and data streams, 12 new gauges
to be installed
data
Virtual laboratory computing power and model
running expertise available through the internet
(in development)
Interface to operational products
Marine biodiversity databases, regional Marine
atlases, scenarios development(in development)
products
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COAST-MAP-IO Building Coastal Resilience to
Ocean-based Extreme Events through Improved
Coastal Mapping Capacity in the Indian Ocean
Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar,
Mozambique, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Tanzania,
Thailand
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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High resolution near-shore bathymetry and
topography needed for inundation maps
Near-shore bathymetry affects wave-height and
wavelength
Near-shore topography determines run-up
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Project objectives

• Enhance country expertise to produce
  high-resolution bathymetric and topographic maps
  in the coastal zone
• Provide modelling capacity for tsunami arrival,
  run-up and inundation
• Provide national disaster management agencies
  with tools and training (inundation maps,
  set-back lines, zonation for coastal users)

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Catalysing capacity for long-term safety and
livelihood in the coastal zone
Bathymetric data
Tsunami-modelling, storm surge modelling
Coastal modelling
Coastal zone planning
Disaster preparedness
New services from country scientists
Long-term scientific growth