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Global Framework for Climate Services Workshop Geneva, Switzerland July 2013 Operational Climate Services African Development Bank Siham Mohamedahmed ClimDev Africa Coordination Unit Slide 2 AfDB and Climate Services AfDB has comparative advantages in dealing with climate change in the continent Support to Climate Resilience Investing in development interventions US$6 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 Slide 3 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 Slide 4 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 Slide 5 Thank You For Further Details www.afdb.org s.mohamedahmed@afdb.org