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The Director
General of TMA - Dr. Agnes Kijazi (third from left) in a group photo with
participants and resource persons of Stakeholder Engagement workshop held in
Arusha, 3 to 14 July 2017.
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Experts on Climate and weather in the
Country requested to engage with stakeholders within the country in order to
boost socio-economic development as per national economic goal. This was said
by the Director General of Tanzania Meteorological Agency Dr Agnes Kijazi while
addressing Zonal Managers from various parts of the country during a training
workshop on stakeholders’ engagement held in Arusha. “After this training I
expect each one to be determined on serving the community with better and
quality services and products from our Agency, I would like to see Zonal
managers looking for stakeholders around your areas and visit them instead of
waiting for them to visit your offices. Weather and climate services have to
become part and parcel of the society daily commodity for social and economic
development of our country “said Dr. Kijazi. She added that through interaction
with stakeholders is easy to get feedback on the services provided. The
feedbacks received from few stakeholders we have reached indicate an
improvement on our services; however, there are few challenges that we need to work
on so as to ensure continuous improvement of our services. We need to work hard
to ensure the Agency contribute positively to the intention of our Government
of transforming our country into middle-income economy through Industrialization.
Weather and Climate services are an important integral part in the construction
and operation of Industries. We therefore have obligations of providing quality
services to contribute towards achievement of this national goal. She said Dr.
Kijazi.
On her side, the UK-Met Office representative
Ms. Sandra Coterill thanks TMA management for continual collaboration with
UK-Met Office, as she alleged believe through this collaboration TMA will reach
its goal of being the centre of Excellency at national and international level.
Based on that, TMA and UK-Met Office under the sponsorship of DFiD has
organized a two weeks training workshop to enhance experts on how to engage
with stakeholders including local media, how to communicate key messages and
how to ensure continual improvement through day to day feedback from
stakeholder, this will increase TMA service quality, dissemination range and
stakeholder database. Said Ms. Sandra.
On behalf trainees, Mr. Daud Amas
appreciated TMA and the UK-Met Office for the training workshop and promised to
assist the Agency on reaching its goals by serving the community in a timely manner
and well emphasize on the day-to-day Agency’s initiatives. Mr. Amas said through
zonal managers, TMA will be able to reach a large number of stakeholders within
the country and he also promised that all zones would enhance the use of local
radios as the easiest and widest channel of disseminating and linking TMA to
the society.
Participants of the workshop were TMA zonal
managers from the Southern, Southwestern Highlands, Central, Western, Lake,
Northeastern Highlands, Eastern and Zanzibar Office together with other experts
from TMA headquarters. The TMA experts
also met with a number of local radio journalists from Arusha, Kilimanjaro and
Manyara regions on scheduled three days theory and practical training during the
media session group work. Resource Persons were from the UK-Met Office and
local experts.
RELEASED
BY: MONICA MUTONI, COMMUNICATION OFFICER, TANZANIA METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY
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