Transcript Tanzania, United Republic of

By Wilbert Timiza
AND
Mohamed Mwabumba
Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA)
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.meteo.go.tz
Training Workshop NMHSs on Designing
Socio-Economic Benefit Studies of
Meteorological/Hydrological Services and
Products for SADC, Mahe, Seychelles 4-8 May
2015.
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Presenters
 WILBERT TIMIZA: Senior Meteorologist in the
International Regional Cooperation Office
Tel.: +255 22 246 0706
Fax: +255 22 246 0735
E-mail: [email protected]
 Mohamed Mwabumba:Meteorologist in the
Research Section
Tel: +255 22 246 0706
Fax: +255 22 246 0735
E-mail: [email protected]
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CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION
 IMPORTANCE OF METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES
 ROLE OF METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES IN
TRANSPORT SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
 METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES FINANCE
 PERFORMANCE REVIEW
 CHALLENGES FACING THE SECTOR
 CONCLUSION AND RECCOMMENDATION
 AREAS NEED IMPROVEMENTS
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CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION
 IMPORTANCE OF METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES
 ROLE OF METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES IN
TRANSPORT SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
 METEOROLOGICAL SERVICES FINANCE
 PERFORMANCE REVIEW
 CHALLENGES FACING THE SECTOR
 CONCLUSION AND RECCOMMENDATION
 AREAS NEED IMPROVEMENTS
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BACKGROUND: Tanzania
 Tanzania is country located in East Africa.
 Tanzania was formed in 1964 Shortly after achieving
independence from Britain in 1961, by merging
Tanganyika and Zanzibar.
 According to the 2012 census, the total population was
44,928,923.
 Ethnic groups include, mainland - African 99% (of
which 95% are Bantu consisting of more than 130
tribes), other 1% (consisting of Asian, European, and
Arab); Zanzibar - Arab, African, mixed Arab and
African
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 GDP per capita is $1,700 (2013 est.) country
comparison to the world: 200
 GDP composition by the centre of origin:
 agriculture: 27.6%
 industries: 25%
 services: 47.4% (2013 est.)
 Main industries include:agricultural processing
(sugar, beer, cigarettes, sisal twine); mining
(diamonds, gold, and iron), salt, soda ash; cement, oil
refining, shoes, apparel, wood products, fertilizer
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 Major climate and weather related hazards in
Tanzania are floods and droughts, which have
important reminders of the deadly effects of climate
change to Tanzania
 Tanzania experience two major rainfall regimes
namely the Unimodal (Southern) and bimodal
(Northern parts)
 Unimodal is experienced from November to May
while
 Bimodal is normally during March to May (Long
rains) and October to December (Short Rains)
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LOCATION MAP OF TANZANIA
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BACKGROUND: TANZANIA MET AGENCY(TMA)
 The Tanzania Meteorological Agency is the Government
Agency under the Ministry of Transport was established on
3rd December 1999. Currently is served by 593 employees
distributed across all over the country.
 The main responsibility of TMA are to provide weather and
climate services to cater the need of various socio-economic
sectors including Agriculture, tourism, transport, energy,
environment, mining, early warning on severe weather
events.
 Also, monitoring climate and projection of climate variability
and change for the development of adaptation and
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mitigation measures
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES PROVIDED
 Public Weather Service
 include daily weather information, forecasts and
warnings, onset and cessation of seasonal rains and
issuance of drought warnings.
 These services categorized as “public good” are made
freely available through the media e.g. radios, TVs and
newspapers
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Aviation weather service
 TMA has an obligation to provide aviation weather services
to both local and international air navigation as required
by the WMO, Technical Regulations and ICAO Annex 3 of
the Chicago convention.
 TMA provides aeronautical meteorological services to 4
International Airports and 17 National airports.
 During the period under review a total of 22,278 aircrafts
were served by TMA.
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Marine weather services
 The
provision of Marine Meteorological and
Oceanographic services supporting safety of life and
property at sea and prevention of marine pollution is
another important task of TMA
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MARINE WEATHER FORECAST ISSSUED AT DAR PORT
NUMBER OF FORECASTS ISSUED TO :MONTH
African
Shipping
Co. LTD.
Fast
Ferries
LTD.
Mega
Speed
Liners LTD.
Sea Star
Services
LTD.
Azam
Marine
Co. LTD.
Sea
Total
Transport Forecast
Shipping Issued
Co. LTD.
2010/11
331
323
22
306
1,415
173
2,570
243
259
30
169
1,412
138
2,251
354
295
75
156
1,351
22
2,253
2011/12
2012/13
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Climate Services
 TMA has a responsibility to collect, data quality,
archiving, retrieval and processing.
 Climate trend analysis is carried out to detect
climate change.
 Interpretation of Seasonal climate forecasts for
national use to assist in planning socio-economic
activities
 Serve various clients of data and climate
information services.
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Agriculture Weather Service
 This is an important service provided by TMA
 In Tanzania this is a high priority area because
agriculture plays a significant role in the national
economy and is affected by weather and climate
variability.
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Other sectors
 TMA has the responsibility to provide weather
information to various other sectors, such as energy
production, water resources, insurance, environmental
protection, tourism, the construction industry and
others
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PERFORMANCE ......
 TMA provides severe weather guidance products for
Lake Victoria Regions through Severe Weather
Demonstration Project for capacity building for
Eastern Africa (SWFDP) supported by WMO and UKMET Office.
 TMA continued with implementation of QMS basing
on ISO standards where by surveillance audit executed
on December 2012 and there was no major nonconformity found that implied improvement of the
QMS Systems.
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 Meteorologist
using video teleconference in
provision of
severe weather
guidance
products.
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TMA services are
(ISO 9001:2008 )
certified as
shown in this
picture
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Major Challenges facing the sector
 The current station network does not meet the
demand of having enough meteorological data for
production of daily and seasonal weather forecasts
and for adverse weather and extreme events warning.
 Acquisition of modern equipment and instruments
for delivery of quality services is another challenge
facing TMA due to the fact that most of the modern
equipment are expensive and also imported from
outside the country
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Major challenges.....
 Lack of own building for Central Forecasting Office
due to the fact that the Agency is paying higher rent;
whereby there is insufficient space for installation of
some meteorological equipments and instruments
that requires permanent installation.
 Inadequate monitoring equipment and research on
climate change and insufficient public awareness.
 Limitation in annual budget allocation.
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PLAN TO ADDRESS THE CHALLENGES
2013/14
S/NO
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
2014/15
In million In million
US$
US$
Activity description
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4
Construction of Central Forecasting
Office Building
1.1
0.7
Expansion of Surface Observation
stations (60 Automatic Weather
Stations, (500 Automatic Rain gauges).
0.4
0.4
2 Upper Air observation system
2
2.5
Establishment of 2 weather RADAR
stations
Upgrading of Telecommunication
1
0.4
system
Strengthening data processing system
0.3
0.2
0.03
0.02
Improving Public Weather Service
delivery and Early Warning
0.2
0.05
Institutional Capacity Building on
human resource
Enhancing research capacity of the
0.06
0.08
agency
0.2
0.4
Total life time running cost
9.29
8.75
Grand Total in U$
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2015/16
Total
amount
In million
US$
2
In million
US$
10
1.5
3.3
0.2
3
1
7.5
0.2
1.6
0.7
0.02
1.2
0.07
0.04
0.29
0.06
0.2
0.2
7.92
0.8
25.96
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7. Conclusion and EXPECTATION
 TMA has an investment Plan that costs US$ 25.96 million
which is equivalent to TZS 44,132 million for improving
meteorological service delivery to transport sector and
other sectors in the Tanzania economy.
 Hence the need for Development Partners including
Private Sectors to support the efforts of TMA in this plan
and provision of even better meteorological services in
Tanzania.
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7. Conclusion and EXPECTATIONS
 For achieving Development goals the nation should use all
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resources it has. Meteorological services are among
important resources for safe, sustainable and reliable
socio-economic development.
Main funding source for Meteorological services in
Tanzania is from the Government.
Support from development partners always enhance these
efforts to provide better services to various socio-economic
sectors in the country.
We expect to learn how to develop Socio-economic benefit
studies for our NMHS.
Sharing of experience from the participating countries on
on SEB initiatives
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ASANTENI SANA
THANK YOU FOR
LISTENING
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