Stephen Brice from British High Commission introducing the high table and the invitee during a launching ceremony on 4th February 2016
Chief Executive Officer and permanent Representative of UK with WMO, Mr. Rob Varley addressing the audience during a launching ceremony on 4th February 2016.
Head of DIFD, Mr. Vel Gnanendran addressing the audience during a launching ceremony on 4th February 2016
Three new UK
government funded projects have been launched at the
British High Commission, Dar es Salaam. These projects demonstrate the
strengthening partnership between the Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA) and
the Met Office, the United Kingdom’s National Weather Service.
The projects, supported by UK aid from the UK’s Department for
International Development (DFID) and the Foreign Commonwealth Office (FCO),
are:
FCO Prosperity Fund Energy and
Extractives Project
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office
(FCO) Africa Prosperity Fund project explores development of services for
renewable energy and oil and gas industries in East Africa. Working with a
range of renewable energy and oil and gas companies active in East Africa, it
aims to better understand how weather and climate affects their operations.
Accurate weather and climate services are necessary to enable the energy
industry to make investment decisions, manage risk and effectively run their
operations. The changing climate is also likely to increase pressures on energy
production, an issue already evident for hydropower production in Tanzania due
to low rainfall, and could affect the design of oil and gas infrastructure in
the region.
DFID TMA Capacity
Development Phase 2 Project
The DFID funded capacity
development project enables TMA to support citizens of Tanzania in making
climate-smart decisions based on relevant, reliable and accessible weather and
climate information. The project has three main components, user engagement,
data rescue and service delivery. The user engagement will engage with sectors most
vulnerable to severe weather, such as agriculture and health. The data rescue
activity will continue work underway to rescue and digitise TMA’s paper
archives. The service delivery activity will develop products based on the two
other activities and ensure they reach users to allow them to make
climate-smart decisions.
DFID Weather
Information SERvices in Africa (WISER)
The pan-African DFID
WISER programme aims to improve the creation and use of weather and climate
information across Sub-Saharan Africa. In Tanzania, WISER is supporting the TMA
and the Met Office working together on a Multi Hazard Early Warning Service.
The development and delivery of the pilot Multi Hazard Early Warning
Service for the coastal regions in Tanzania aims to reduce the impacts of
extreme weather, and enhance the role, capacity and reputation of the TMA.
The combination of TMA’s local expertise and access to historical
data, and the Met Office’s world-class weather and climate science and operational
service delivery across several industries, will ensure Tanzanian public and
industries benefit from high quality weather and climate information for decision
making.
ENDS
Notes:
About the Tanzania Meteorological Agency
The Tanzania
Meteorological Agency is the designated national weather service in Tanzania.
It provides quality meteorological services to stakeholders' expectations
thereby contributing to the protection of life and property,
environment and the national poverty eradication goal. http://www.meteo.go.tz/
About the Met Office
The Met Office is the United Kingdom’s National Weather Service,
providing 24x7 world-renowned scientific excellence in weather, climate and
environmental forecasts and severe weather warnings for the protection of life
and property. www.metoffice.gov.uk
ISSUED BY; TANZANIA
METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY & MET OFFICE, UNITED KINGDOM, COMMUNICATION OFFICE
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