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Operational Climate Services
African Development Bank Siham
Mohamedahmed ClimDev Africa Coordination Unit
Global Framework for Climate Services Workshop
Geneva, Switzerland July 2013
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AfDB and Climate Services

• AfDB has comparative advantages in dealing with
  climate change in the continent
• Support to Climate Resilience
• Investing in development interventions US6
  billion on Climate change
• Providing climate financing instruments
• Resilient infrastructure -Climate Proofing of
  AfDB s Projects
• Examples
• ClimDev Africa Special Fund (CDSF)
• Support to Regional Climate Centers

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CDSF Areas of Intervention

• Climate Information Collection and Sharing
• Preserving historical meteorological and
  hydrological data
• Development of early warning systems
• Appropriate packaging and dissemination of
  climate information
• Enhancing Scientific Research and Communicating
  Policy Implications
• Developing decision support tools for policy
  making
• Creating best practices for climate change
  preparedness at all levels
• Providing current climate change information to
  African negotiators
• Informed decision-making, awareness and advocacy
• Implementing pilot adaptation practices that are
  climate resilient
• Training African countries to use appropriate
  Climate Risk Management and Adaptation tool
• Completing Outreach and awareness-raising to
  various levels

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GFCS and Africa

• Africa highly vulnerable to climate change
• Adaptation actions require accurate climate
  information, monitoring capabilities, better
  links between climate research and policy
• Africa has only 12.5 of meteorological
  observation stations to have effective coverage
  huge deficiency in responding to CC.
• Inadequate funding, insufficient infrastructure,
  poor support
• Capacity Development
• Effective interface between providers and users
  of climate services
• Better access to knowledge and technologies
• Enable Africa to Develop Climate Risk Management
  Strategy
• Promote partnerships among stakeholders for
  addressing gaps
• Facilitate synergies between existing and
  upcoming CC programs

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Thank You

• For Further Details
• www.afdb.org
• s.mohamedahmed_at_afdb.org