Informal Planning Meeting of The

WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION ______

REPORT OF

INFORMAL PLANNING MEETING OF THE VOLUNTARY COOPERATION PROGRAMME

Hamburg, Germany

15-17 April 2015 1. OPENING OF THE MEETING

1.1. The Informal Planning Meeting (IPM) of the Voluntary Cooperation Programme (VCP) met in Hamburg, Germany 15-17 April 2015. The IPM was hosted by the German Weather Service (DWD).

1.2. The meeting was chaired by Mr Francisco (Paco) Espejo (AEMET) and attended by representatives of China, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Republic of Korea, Spain, Norway, United Kingdom, United States of America and the VCP and GCOS Secretariat. Other invited participants included COMET, EUMETSAT (via phone) and GIZ. The full list of participants is given in Annex I. The opening address was delivered by Dr Thomas Bruns, manager of the DWD Branch Office in Hamburg and Head of the Division for Marine Meteorological Services. Dr Burns gave the participants an overview of the history of the DWD branch in Hamburg, the “Seewetteramt” specializing in marine meteorology and gathering data from ships. Today the branch works as a regional forecasting centre with a specialization in marine and the old building housing it, dating back to 1905.

On behalf of WMO, the Secretary General and Ms Mary Power, Mr Jeff Wilson thanked DWD and the Seewetteramt for hosting the IPM, underlining that WMO sees the opportunity that the network provides as very useful to support and promote developing activities for NMHS.

The IPM Chair, Mr Espejo, welcomed all participants and shared his expectations for the meeting emphasising the planning aspect of the agenda. Mr Espejo also underlined the importance of this meeting and how it is a useful arena for the met services that have bilateral development projects to share experiences and knowledge on the development projects that are not channelled through the Secretariat.

2. ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA

2.1. The meeting adopted the agenda. The agenda is given in Annex II.

3. REPORT OF THE VCP AND VCP COORDINATED ACTIVITIES 2013 3.1. The meeting was informed of the activities being supported at the national level in developing and least developed countries under the Voluntary Cooperation Programme, through the Secretariat through the VCP Fund (F) and through coordinated activities of the VCP Equipment and Services (ES) function.

3.2. In 2014, the VCP Secretariat received eleven requests for support from nine countries. Of these five were supported through the VCP-F as they fitted within the VCP-F guidelines. From the remaining requests, one was covered through another WMO Development programme (GFCS: Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Africa), and four were circulated directly among the potential donors and IPM members through VCP (ES) Coordinated process. Of those circulated two projects will be supported through VCP Coordinated. Overall, 70 % of all new requests were given a positive response. The unsupported projects were outside the financial frame of WMO VCP projects. The countries that received support through VCP (F) were Bosnia and Herzegovina, Fiji, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago and Tuvalu.

In total 5 requests remain unmet at the end of 2014 (3 from 2014 and 2 from 2013).

Four members made cash contributions to the VCP Fund (VCP (F)) amounting to USD 42,500. In addition to major regional development projects described below, approximately USD 32,576,212 equivalent in support was provided through the VCP overall. This was comprised of USD 227,000 from the VCP (F) and the remaining through bilateral support. Full details are provided in Annex III.

The trends in contributions to VCP (F) and VCP (ES) over the past six years indicate a decrease in funds for the VCP as managed through the secretariat at the same time as project support through major development projects in WMO and through bilateral support is increasing. 4. REPORT ON REGIONAL HYDROMET MODERNIZATION AND GFCS PROJECTS 4.1. The Secretariat provided an overview of the significant development support being financed and coordinated through the WMO Office for Resource Mobilization and Development Partnerships (RMDP), the Regional Offices and Technical Departments in respect of regional programmes for capacity development of NMHS in Africa, South Eastern Europe, South and Central Asia, Pacific, Middle East, Caribbean, Polar and Himalayas and the Americas.

4.2. These are supported by WMO Members mainly through the NMHS and / or their ODA Agencies and include Canada, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, UK and USA. Additional institutional partners include EU (various Directorates), World Bank, Regional Development Banks and UN system partners as WFP, WHO and others (Annex V). Most of recent regional development projects being implemented by WMO Secretariat support the implementation of the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) in the key priority sectors (Agriculture and Food Security, Disaster Risk Reduction, Water, Health).

4.3. On average development cooperation project income at WMO Secretariat amounts to about USD 32 Million for 2014 in addition to almost the same amount to all VCP related investments by the WMO Secretariat and IPM Members. It is worth noting that many of WMO regional development projects have a focus on Africa and greatly contribute to the objectives set out in the Integrated African Strategy on Meteorology (Weather and Climate Services) adopted in 2012 by the African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET).

4.4. The interest in investing in weather, water and climate services is clearly increasing with many partner agencies also investing directly including WB, UNDP-GEF. WMO position in the development agenda is best suited to innovation and pilot / demonstration projects and then working with other UN agencies as both partners and end-users of climate services.

4.5. The IPM members shared information on a broad range of development assistance being provided through bi-lateral means by Donor Members to improve the delivery of climate, weather and water related service in developing country member states. The presentations included the efforts of China, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Norway, Republic of Korea, Spain, United Kingdom and United States of America as well as EUMETSAT and COMET. The full details of these activities are provided in Annex IV.

4.6. The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Implementation Manager presented the GCOS programme and the development cooperation activities conducted through GCOS in 2014. He highlighted that through GCOS, low value orders can mend important gaps, and that the costs often increase when investments to restore and maintain smaller equipment is not done in a timely manner. Maintenance costs when investing in new equipment should be built in for at least three years.

4.7. The chair opened discussion to the group based on the presentations made by the Donor Members, especially in relation to the challenges and opportunities they are facing while implementing development projects. The presentations show that the members sometimes have overlapping interests, either in terms of geography or topics. It would be beneficial to some of the programmes if there were greater synergies between the countries. An overview showing the development activities taking place in each country will be provided by the Secretariat. 4.8. The discussions that followed the presentations on WMO major regional development projects and IPM Member bilateral projects highlighted the following: i) Donor coordination on national level in countries where more than one development project is taking place ii) The importance of the NMHS in developing countries having their strategic plan in place before embarking on bigger development projects iii) The importance of training of staff iv) Building in maintenance where there is investment in equipment.

5. EDUCATION AND TRAINING

5.1. WMO Global Campus Since the last IPM there has been significant progress on the concept of the Global Campus with UKMO’s secondment of Aileen Semple to the WMO Secretariat.

WMO has 27 RTCs and several WMO affiliated institutions. However, there is still a gap in the demand and the supply of training. The Global Campus is aimed at reducing this gap and improving access to training resources for NMHS staff and trainees in a cost and delivery efficient manner. The steering committee for the Global Campus was established in December 2014 and the RTC directors meeting in Langen, Germany in March 2015 agreed and recommended what the focus areas should be for the next phase: a Global Searchable Calendar, Aviation Competencies in multiple languages and Climate Services – building on aviation experiences. The Global Campus gives a good opportunity to be working together and to see if there is another training provider giving the needed course already.

EUMETSAT Mark Higgins joined the IPM via telephone to give an introduction to EUMETSAT’s provision of satellite data for weather and climate services. EUMETSATs mandate in addition to cover the needs of its 30 members and 1 contributing state has been extended to also include other European countries, RA I, the Middle East of RA II and RA III and the rest of the world. EUMETSAT provides applications of data in: Severe Weather and Nowcasting; Marine; Land; Climate; Dust and Hydrology. On a global level they support training design for large capacity building projects while in Europe, Africa and the Middle East they provide classroom and online training. These training modules are available globally with a target audience in Europe. There is a strong need for services that are beyond the mandate of EUMETSAT, such as training in Marine Services, training in Climate Services and training in NWP.

GIZ – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammearbeit The German Agency for Development Cooperation, GIZ, is owned by the Federal Republic of Germany at the same time as it is a company under federal law. Their approach is focused on services to manage social change processes. The GIZ underlines that Climate Change issues have rapidly gained importance and a further increase in number of project related to climate change is expected with the highest concentration of climate change projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. The outreach of GIZ programmes for Adaptation, Mainstreaming and Climate Information covers countries that are also benefitting from IPM members such as India, Vietnam, Peru, the Philippines and Pacific Islands. The challenges that are faced in the implementation relate to climate information illiteracy including how beneficiaries of the projects deal with uncertainty in future climate scenarios. GIZ is also involved in restoring historical climate data in Indonesia.

GIZ shared the experience from the cooperation between GIZ and DWD, where DWD contributes with competence in state-of-the art meteorology and climatology and have the right skill set and networks while GIZ has in-depth knowledge on the organizational procedures, knowledge about the sectors and long-term presence in developing countries.

Paul Egerton, WMO Liaison Office New York, Mr. Egerton updated the IPM on the ongoing process with Sustainable Development Goals where Goal 13, 14, 15 and 6 are the most relevant to WMO. It is also noted that WMO is becoming more relevant to these processes. It is important that the messages about weather and climate get repeated through the delegates and diplomats at the Missions in New York.

Green Climate Fund (GCF) Mr. Jean-Paul Gaudechoux from WMO updated the IPM on the progress of the Green Climate Fund. The pledges made to the Green Climate Fund amounts to USD 10,2 billion (as of mid- April 2015), nevertheless, the only country that had to date made the full contribution is Denmark. The process for accreditation is underway and the first seven entities were accredited in March 2015 during the 9th Green Climate Fund Board Meeting. WMO has applied to become an accredited entity and the application is currently being reviewed by the GCF Secretariat before being submitted to an independent accreditation panel for consideration by the 10th Green Climate Fund Board Meeting in early July 2015. 6. DISCUSSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

 The discussion about how the NMHS and national development agencies can increase cooperation continues from last year.  Development agencies working with climate change programmes, such as GIZ, can tap into the knowledge and experiences of their NMHS to develop products that are useful at project level.  A percentage of incoming VCP requests can be met through ongoing development projects either administered through WMO or through bilateral projects. However, it is important to have funds available in the VCP trust fund that are not earmarked for specific projects or countries to meet VCP requests that fall outside the major project countries  Proposal to have in country coordination meetings for countries in which several IPM members have projects (such as Myanmar, Madagascar, Vietnam). It was discussed whether it would be beneficial to have one lead in countries where several NMHS implement development programmes.  The importance of the NMHS in developing countries having their strategic plan in place before embarking on bigger development projects was emphasized and WMO has a major role to play in this.  How to create sustainable results? In hardware there is a need to build in maintenance costs into the project investment. The importance of the training component in development projects.. Training needs to come before the supply of instruments and needs to be hands-on.  The projects need to highlight the importance of maintenance, calibration and spare parts. If the correct maintenance work is applied, the investment will last much longer. Moreover, in the analysis of the supply of hardware it is important to take into account the availability and cost of spare parts.  Service Delivery: the experience of FMI shows that it is beneficial to approach the end- user to identify the correct partner for service delivery. An example is from Malawi where both FMI and WMO have good experiences in partnering with the Red Cross for Disaster Risk Reduction programmes. NGOs with presence on the ground in developing countries might have a much better outreach than the NMHS alone.  Socio-Economic Benefit (SEB) studies; there is an increasing interest for SEB studies of investments made in weather, water and climate. These studies are also highly beneficial in discussions with donors for future projects.  The networking that is resulting from the IPM is critical and facilitates cooperation between the members  The IPM is a valuable, well-functioning network  As a follow up to the 2014 session in parallel with the EC panel on Education and Training, it was agreed that the IPM will take place in parallel with the panel every second panel, meaning that the next joint meeting will take place in 2018. Decisions for the next IPM  It should be considered if the template for the reporting to the IPM should be changed before the next meeting  Timely submission of reports will allow for issues from the reports to feed into the agenda of the IPM  It was discussed whether there should be breakout groups during the IPM to coordinate for countries in which several met services have presence. An option would be to present case studies and open for discussion  IPM members are encouraged to share their written experiences of implementing projects.  An informal drafting committee for best practices was established. The members of this groups are o Dan Beardsley o Antti Hyvärinen o Paco Espejo o Bruce Muller o VCP secretariat

There will be a side event for VCP during the Cg XXVII organized by WMO Secretariat. The event will take on Wednesday 3 June,

7. DATE AND PLACE OF THE NEXT IPM MEETING

7.1. Next meeting will take place in March/April 2016. Venue and exact dates to be decided. Annex I WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION ______INFORMAL PLANNING MEETING OF THE VOLUNTARY COOPERATION PROGRAMME

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Participant List Mr Zhou HENG Ms Claudia RUBART Department of International Cooperation Office of the President and International China Meteorological Agency Affairs, 46, Zhongguancun Nandajie Deutscher Wetterdienst Beijing 100081, China Frankfurter Strasse 135 Tel: +86 10 68406242 D-63067 Offenbach Fax: +86 10 62174797 Germany Email: [email protected] Tel.: +49 69 8062 4309 Fax: +49 69 8062 4130 Email: [email protected]

Mr Takuya HOSOMI Mr Mingu DO Office of International Affairs International Cooperation Division Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), Phone: +81-3-3211-4966 Tel.: + 82 2 2181 0372 Fax: +81-3-3211-2032 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Mr Tor Ivar MATHISEN Mr Steve MANKTELOW International Relations Program Manager/Aviation Forecaster UK Met Office Met Norway Phone: +44 (0) 1392 886633 Phone: +47 229963000 Fax: + 44 (0) 1392 885681 Fax: + 47 22963050 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Mr Francisco ESPEJO GIL Mr Quoc-Phi DUONG State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) Advisor on WMO Matters Spain Department of International Affairs Tel.: +34 91 5819 683 (RPV: 39683) Météo-France Fax: + 34 91 5819 896 Tel.:+33 (0)1 77 94 70 57 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Mr Antti HYVÄRINEN, Ph.D Mr Dan BEARDSLEY Senior Research Scientist, NOAA/National Weather Service Head of Group: International Projects, Expert International Activities Office Services, National Weather Service Finnish Meteorological Institute, USA phone: +358 405152004 Tel: +1 301-427-9041 fax: +358 29 539 4129 Fax: Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] IPM/2015/Doc. 2 WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION ______ITEM 2.1

Original: ENGLISH INFORMAL PLANNING MEETING VOLUNTARY COOPERATION PROGRAMME HAMBURG, GERMANY 15-17 APRIL 2015

REPORTED BILATERAL TECHNICAL COOPERATION ACTIVITIES IN 2013

(Submitted by WMO Members)

Summary and Purpose of Document

This document provides information on Member bilateral cooperation activities during 2014 including VCP Coordinated Programmes.

ACTION PROPOSED

The meeting is invited to consider the information on the activities of the Members in bilateral cooperation during 2014 to inform and guide donor Members in planning their technical assistance support to VCP during 2015.

The reports provided vary significantly in detail in terms of activities and budget. The meeting may wish to consider establishing guidelines on reporting on cooperation activities and related financial investment reporting to facilitate tracking of trends over time.

WMO Voluntary Cooperation Programme – Informal Planning Meeting 2015

Activity Report

1. Country CANADA

3. Overall estimated national contribution 2. Overall national contribution in 2014/2015 in 2015/2016 (in CAD) Canada’s goal is to maintain the 2014/2015 13,023,743 CAD national contribution.

4. List of Activities / Projects / Events in 5. Source of Funding (CAD): 2014/2015 related to contribution Project 1: Contributions to WMO Trust Funds to engage scientists and technologists from developing countries

Support for the WMO Secretariat for the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) to 200,000 enhance global capacity, integrity and delivery of (Environment Canada) climate services.

To promote global Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay (AMDAR) development to enhance the 10,000 upper air component of WMO’s Global Observing (Environment Canada) System of the World Weather Watch.

To support the Executive Council Panel of Experts on Polar Observations, Research and Services (EC-PORS) as input into the sessional meeting and 50,000 workshops, to interact and communicate with other (Environment Canada) international institutions/bodies and to fund travel of experts to participate at meetings.

Contribution to the Brewer Trust Fund to assist developing countries to provide timely and 30,000 accurate data to the Global Atmospheric Watch (Environment Canada) (GAW) global ozone and ultraviolet networks. Contributed to the business of the Global Integrated Polar Prediction System Trust Fund (GIPPS) to prepare documents, interact and communicate with other international institutions 50,000 and bodies, and cover the costs of material (Environment Canada) arrangements and travel expenses of committee members for official meetings.

This contribution supports an international collaborative approach on open science, by providing an initiative to WMO partners to focus and accelerate improvements in the accuracy of 1- day to 2-week weather forecasts. The contribution supported three key initiatives on international 20,000 collaboration on polar prediction, sub-seasonal to (Environment Canada) seasonal prediction (supporting climate services on short time scales) and high impact weather (dealing with extreme weather) through contributions to the secretary offices, organization of meetings and publications.

Project 2: Group on Earth Observations (GEO) activities to engage scientists and technologists from developing countries 100,000 Funds to support the GEO Secretariat. (Environment Canada) Project 3: Institutional Capacity Development for CNM (Haiti)

Haiti Weather System Program: Climate Services to Reduce Vulnerability in Haiti (6,500,000 over 5 years) to rehabilitate Hydro-meteorological $1,200,000 (Notional Figure) Agencies for the delivery of quality weather, (Environment Canada) climate and hydrological services, including early warnings.

Project 4: Development of Quality Management Systems for NMHS with emphasis on aviation 3,000 Expert training provided for Spanish-speaking (Environment Canada) members of RA-III and RA-IV. A workshop was held in Argentina for Competency Assessment of Aeronautical Meteorological Personnel, with representatives from 16 countries and 25 participants.

Participated at the 4th meeting of the Task Team for QMS, to review the current status of 5,000 implementation of QMS by the WMO Members (Environment Canada) and related capacity development actions undertaken by different WMO bodies.

Miscellaneous

1,534,500 (Notional Figure) To implement GFCS at regional and national (Environment Canada) scales (6,138,000 over 4 years)

Official Development Assistance portion of WMO assessed contribution (4%). 91,850 (Environment Canada)

Contribution to the IPCC Trust Fund directed toward supporting participants from developing 150,000 countries / economies in transition to travel to (Environment Canada) IPCC meetings.

The InterAmerican Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), which is an organization that supports global change research and capacity 162,000 building in the Americas. Our contribution (Environment Canada) supports the operations and staff of the IAI Directorate.

Developed and delivered education and training materials and courses, and disseminated over the Internet for use by the worldwide meteorological 550,000 community through the Co-operative program for (Environment Canada) Operational Meteorological Education and Training (COMET).

12,000 Participation in the scoping of WMO Global (Environment Canada) Campus Feasibility Assessment. MSC is involved in a few assessment exercises, including the identification of best practices in the development of training that require translation, and Trainer capacity Building.

Provided two used Nipher snow gauges to Spain, 7,000 which is used to capture snow and measure its water content in millimetres. (Environment Canada)

Enabled the development of data archive and quality control for the Solid Precipitation 20,000 Intercomparison Experiment (SPICE) at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research (Environment Canada) (NCAR), USA.

Chaired the Task Team (TT) for the Implementation of the GFCS in RA IV. This 20,000 included organization of teleconferences and a face (Environment Canada) to face meeting, translation and confirmation and acceptance of a detailed work plan by the TT.

864,694 A component of the Caribbean Disaster Risk ($3,458,775 from 2011 – 2015) Reduction Program, whose goal is to increase the (Canadian International Development Agency, capacity of regional organizations, national Canadian Red Cross) governments and local communities in the Caribbean to respond to and manage natural disasters (i.e., hurricanes, floods) and to reduce their impact on the people of the region.

This project will: (1) Support civil society engagement in the implementation of a Comprehensive Disaster Management strategy, through knowledge and experience sharing with regional and national actors to prioritize vulnerable communities; (2) Establish a Disaster Risk Reduction Reference Centre in Barbados to provide technical training and expert advice and promote community resilience in the Caribbean; and (3) Provide direct community-based disaster risk reduction programming through three Red Cross National Societies (Dominica, Jamaica and Guyana) in collaboration with National Disaster Management Agencies and other partners. The project enables 45 communities (equally divided between Jamaica, Guyana and Dominica) to complete a disaster risk reduction process (risk assessment, preparedness teams, and mitigation projects).

This project aims to reduce the impact of disasters on vulnerable populations in Southeast Asia by providing support to governments and civil society to manage and reduce disaster risk. In so doing, the project also seeks to support economic growth and maintain the development gains already made in the region. The project is establishing an Integrated Disaster Risk Management Trust Fund to support the development of innovative approaches and tools for disaster risk management. The Fund, 2,500,000 administered by the Asian Development Bank, ($10,000,000 from 2013 – 2017) also aims to enhance regional cooperation and (Canadian International Development Agency, capacity for risk management. Asian Development Bank)

The project provides support in three main areas: (i) reducing the risks associated with disasters and increasing the resilience of people and communities to disasters; (ii) adapting to climate change, which involves incorporating viable, adaptive strategies into existing disaster risk management initiatives; and (iii) developing disaster risk financing, including insurance.

The Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative 272,911 in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) aims to build the ($1,910,379 from 2012 – 2019) resilience of poor people to climate change in (International Development Research Centre) three climate change “hot spots”: basins, deltas, and semi-arid regions. CARIAA brings together consortia to explore the physical, social, economic and political dimensions of vulnerability and adaptation options. The consortia also tackle climate change over different timeframes and across different scales, from impacts on households and villages, up to regional and global policies.

In particular, they will be addressing the following common issues across the “hot spots”:

 Biophysical impacts of climate change, differentiating between areas where research on impacts has already been done and areas where there are research gaps,  Social vulnerability to climate change, reviewing how vulnerability has been addressed in the hot spots to date, and  Recent adaptation policies and initiatives, highlighting how adaptation is already taken into account in policy and practice, and key areas where adaptation policy and practice could be improved.

The studies also address useful methodologies for conducting similar background studies to inform work on climate change adaptation.

The International Research Initiative on Adaptation to Climate Change (IRIACC) is a research programs with five projects, each a partnership between Canadian and developing country researchers are researching strategies for 1,441,537 adapting to the impacts of climate change. ($7,207,683 from 2011 – 2016) Together with non-academic partners, projects are (International Development Research Centre) developing options to help communities in Canada and around the world cope with a changing climate. This includes reducing the risks for agricultural and indigenous communities to climate variability and extreme climate events.

3,729,251 The Climate Change and Water Program (CCW) ($18,646,253 from 2010 – 2015) supports applied multidisciplinary research to (International Development Research Centre) improve adaptation efforts to water-related impacts of climate change. It supports research institutions in developing countries advance knowledge about water-related impacts of climate change, identify a range of options and strategies for coping with such impacts, and generate evidence that can be used to inform adaptation policy and practice. Expected outcomes include improvements in capacity to adapt to climate change and a reduction in vulnerability to water stress at multiple scales, from small communities to larger sub-regions with a large population.

6. Challenges in Resource Mobilization for your 7. Opportunities for Increased Activity for Activities / Projects / Events your Activities / Projects / Events  Environment Canada does not have a mandate to provide overseas development assistance.  The Canadian International Development Agency was subsumed under the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Canada (DFATD); to date, funded projects have not focused on weather or climate issues. Environment Canada will continue to  Overall, resource mobilization is constrained  by the Government of Canada’s focus on emphasize with DFATD the importance of deficit reduction. strengthening assistance related to the hydro-meteorological enterprise. This will  Due to the need to focus on domestic priorities, include briefings on capacity development experts may have budget and time constraints. opportunities in the WMO, having the  It has become cumbersome to receive travel WMO brief them on the files, or having approval to undertake some of the education other international development agencies and training activities. provide background on why they are  A considerable amount of time is required to engaged with the WMO. complete the paperwork and seek approval for grants and contributions.  Lack of mechanism to donate old monitoring equipment which is no longer used for domestic monitoring but still operational or useful for spare obsolete parts to WMO Members.

8. Opportunities for more cooperation with other Members / organizations The following areas have been identified as potential opportunities for more cooperation with other Members and organizations; execution is highly dependent on available resources and capacity:  Participate in and lead capacity building/development workshops for WMO Members;  Donation of monitoring equipment to WMO Members;  Provide training on the use of instrumentation to WMO Members;  Work with industry to develop simpler and more affordable weather-related instrumentation;  Additional work on the Global Campus initiative;  Support in the ab-initio training for meteorologists;  Additional sessions on Train the Trainers workshops in the regions;  Additional capacity building / development activities related to GFCS implementation for the Sahelien countries;  Through THORPEX, accelerate improvements in the accuracy of 1-day to 2-week weather forecasts particularly related to polar prediction, sub-seasonal to seasonal prediction supporting climate services on short time scales, and high impact weather;  Extend access to a remote radar course to participants from the Bahamas, Europe and Australia;  Worldwide training in various languages on WMO Operational Table-Driven Code Forms (mainly BUFR) as part of ongoing international work toward the migration away from obsolete alphanumeric code forms for meteorological data reporting;  Assist WMO Members in completing the implementation of the Migration to Table-Driven Code Forms (MTDCF) – could be done using regionally-based migration plans that complement National migration plans and offer concrete procedures. Summary of China’s Contribution through WMO VCP Programme and Bilateral Arrangements in 2014

Item Descriptions of Projects Total cost (USD) 1 Study Tour 44th China Study Tour (22 to 30 September 2015) 49180 2 Short-term 1. Training Course on Disaster Reduction and training* and long- Relief for the Philippines (RTC-Nanjing, 16-29 88468 term fellowships May 2014) 2. Training Course on Climate Change and Climate Information Service for English-speaking 116755 Countries in Africa (RTC-Nanjing,15 April to 13 May 2014) 3. International Training Course on Tropical Cyclone Forecast(RTC-Nanjing, 15-26 May 20273 2014) 4. International Training Course on Use of Meteorological Instruments (RTC-Nanjing, 5-16 39852 June 2014) 5. International Training Seminar on SSOP of WMO/ESCAP Typhoon Committee (RTC- 4918 Nanjing, 9-11 June 2014) 6. Training Seminar on Management for Meteorological Officials for English-speaking 95155 Countries in Africa (RTC-Nanjing,13 June to 3 July 2014) 7. Meteorological Disaster Risk Management and Meteorological Information Service for Latin 112649 America, Caribbean and South Asia-Pacific Countries (RTC-Nanjing,10-30 September 2014) 8. International Training Course on Agrometeorology (RTC-Nanjing,19-30 39852 September 2014) 9. Training Course on Meteorological and Seismological Forecast and Disaster Reduction 85875 for Pakistan(RTC-Nanjing,13 October-2 November 2014) 10. International Training Course on Short-term Climate Prediction Methods (RTC-Beijing, 14- 34511 25 April 2014) 11. International Training Course on Thunderstorms 36254 and Severe Convection Nowcasting (RTC- Beijing,13-23 May 2014) Item Descriptions of Projects Total cost (USD) 12. International Training Course on Aeronautical 68343 Met. Services (RTC-Beijing,16 to 27 June 2014) 13. International Training Course on Weather 20273 Modification (RTC-Beijing, 18-29 August 2014) 14. Seminar on Meteorological Disaster Management for Senior Officials (RTC-Beijing, 43224 15-26 September 2014) 15. International Training Course on Climate Prediction and Drought Monitoring(RTC- 30950 Beijing, 20-31October 2014) 16. Regional Training Workshop on the Application of Meteorological Satellite Products(Shanghai, 9000 17 -18 November 2014, RTC-Beijing) 17. Pre-job Training for New Weather Forecasters for two African graduates(RTC-Beijing, 25 13711 August to 19 December 2014) 18. Long-term WMO/China government scholarship 523049

3 Donation Of Provision 50 barographs, 100 hygrographs and 100 72951 Instruments thermographs to the National Agency for and Equipment Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring of through Bilateral Mongolia Arrangements Provision of a set of Meteorological Virtual Studio to the 81221 Department of Meteorology and Hydrology of Myanmar Expert missions to the National Meteorological Services of 26431 Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and Nepal on the maintenance and technical training of Integrated CMACast and MICAPS system 4 VCP(F) VCP (F),GFCS Trust Fund, IPCC Trust Fund, WIS Trust Fund 152350 and THORPEX Trust Fund Total 1,765,245

*In 2014, a total number of 361 foreign experts participated in the short-term training courses organized by WMO Regional Training Centers in Nanjing and Beijing. There were 43 WMO/China joint scholarship students studying in China in 2014. Annex 2:

Expected Contributions of China to the WMO VCP in 2015

I. Study Tour  45th China Study Tour will be organized for PRs or senior officials in 2015

II. Training and Fellowships A. International Training Courses 1. Training Course on Radar Meteorology for Developing Countries(RTC-Nanjing, 12 May to 8 June 2015) 2. International Training Course on Numerical Weather Prediction (RTC-Nanjing,18-29 May 2015) 3. Seminar on Climate Change and Climate Information Service for Developing Countries (RTC-Nanjing, 4-24 June 2015) 4. Seminar on Management for Meteorological Officials from Asia-Pacific Countries (RTC- Nanjing, 11 June to 1 July 2015) 5. International Training Course on Use of Meteorological Instruments (RTC-Nanjing,29 June to10 July 2015) 6. Seminar on Meteorological Disaster Management and Weather Information Service for Developing Countries(RTC-Nanjing, 10-30 September 2015) 7. International Training Course on Agrometeorology (RTC-Nanjing,14-25 September 2015) 8. Seminar on Meteorological and Earthquake Forecast, Mitigation and Relief for Developing Countries(RTC-Nanjing, 14 October to 3 November 2015) 9. International Training Course on Instrument Maintenance and Calibration(RTC-Nanjing, 2 - 27 November 2015) 10. International Training Course on Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) (RTC- Beijing,11-22 May 2015). 11. International Training Course on Aeronautical Meteorology Services (RTC- Beijing,8-19 June 2015) 12. International Training Course on the Application of Meteorological Satellite Products (RTC- Beijing,10-21 August 2015) 13. Seminar on Meteorological Disaster Management for Officials from Developing Countries (RTC- Beijing,7-18 September 2015) 14. International Training Course on Public Weather Service(October 2015) 15. Pre-job Training for New Weather Forecasters for the graduated WMO scholarship students from RTC-Nanjing (RTC-Beijing, 2015)

B. Provision of long-term scholarships will continue under the MoUs concluded by WMO with the Ministry of Education of China and RTC-Nanjing. Two additional long-term scholarships will be offered after the conclusion of the MoU between WMO and Hohai University.

III.Donation of Instruments and Equipment to developing NMHSs through bilateral arrangements or under WMO VCP programme 1. Donation of Integrated CMACast and MICAPS systems to one developing Member within the footprint of CMACast. 2. On-site technical training and system maintenance of Integrated CMACast and MICPAS System in about 5 countries will be conducted. 3. Donation of a set of distant audio and video weather forecast discussion system to DPRK(implemented) 4. Installation of MICAPS system for Togo Meteorological Service 5. Emergency assistance

IV.Donation of fund 1. CHF100,000 to GFCS Trust Fund 2. USD10,000 to IPCC Trust Fund 3. USD10,000 to WMO Trust Fund for Voluntary Cooperation Program 4. USD12,000 to WMO WIGOS Fund 5. USD5,000 to WMO WIS Trust Fund Report to WMO IPM

Support to the field of meteorology and development from the Government of Finland in 2014

Antti Hyvärinen 17/02/2015

Expert Services, conducted activities 2014

Caribbean SIDS-SHOCS2 - Design at FMI of hardware and software for data retrieval, data quality control and meta- database solution for the needs of SIDSs NMHSs. - Installation of SmartMet hardware and software and initial training for forecasters and technicians at ONAMET (Dominican Republic) and INSMET (Cuba). The first advance level training workshop on SmartMet for forecasters and technicians was held at FMI in Finland in early June 2014 - Preparation of a stand-alone software solution for real time management and issuing of weather warnings for use at SIDSs NMHSs (or DMAs (SmartAlert). The software will produce messages in XML format compatible with Common Alerting Protocol standard (v. 1.2). Pilot NMHSs were selected for testing the solution are Cuba, Antigua& Barbuda and Jamaica. The software is targeted to be ready for test use in the beginning of year 2015. CAP-workshops are held in December 2014 in Jamaica and in Antigua and Barbuda. - Questionnaire issued for detailed assessment of the functioning of AWSs for all participating countries. Assessment was finalized in the end of the year 2014. - Tender process on the TV broadcasting solution was completed in the autumn. As a result Trivis-software was ordered and shipped to Cuba. Scheduled installation time is February 2015.

Pacific SIDS – FINPAC - Setup a lightning data feed directly for six PIC NHMSs (Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga, and Solomon Islands). - Held a workshop on the usage and benefits of lightning location data and applications in different fields in Apia, Samoa during January 2014. - Participated on Regional Consultation on Climate Service for Pacific Small Island State & Related Meetings in Rarotonga, Cook Island on 31 March – 4 April. - Participated as an observer on drafting the ToR of the Pacific Island Climate Service (PICS) Panel. - Participated as on observer on Preparatory Meeting for the 3rd international Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to be held in September in Samoa. Discussed on the role and visibility of GFCS and FINPAC in the SIDS meeting. - Participated on planning session of WMO GFCS Project to be funded by Canada as representative of FINPAC, discussion on coordination between FINPAC and Canada project. - Discussed on further funding possibilities for Pacific Island Climate services with representatives of EU, WMO, SPREP and University of the South Pacific (USP). - NMS’s current capabilities of producing climate services were preliminarily mapped out. - Other donors’ or external NMS’s activities in the Pacific area related to climate services were mapped out. - Participated on media training in Cook Island Meteorological Service (CIMS) - Participated in community level workshop in Aitutaki. User needs and ways of communication was mapped out to be utilized in further development of climate services Community Action Plan to be prepared for natural hazards drafted. Over 30 persons from Tautu community participated on the workshop. - Gave hands-on quality management system training to the Niue and Fiji meteorological services in August 2014 by performing mock audits by ISO 9001:2008 standard. - Gave a regional training workshop on quality management in Fiji. 8 countries were present: Cook Islands, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu. - Gave a Lightning Location Data Workshop in Apia, Samoa in October 2014. Countries participating were Samoa, Niue, Tuvalu, Fiji, Palau, Tonga, Solomon Islands, PNG, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Cook Islands and RMI. - Implemented the SmartMet weather forecast production system in three NMSs (Fiji, Tonga and Papua New Guinea) and gave relevant training in the operation and maintenance of the system during August-November 2014.

Ecuador – FINAMHI - A new database for INAMHI was developed in the past two years; the new database includes e.g. stations metadata. - A workshop was held for improving the use of radar data for quantitative precipitation estimation, and continuing to support radar network planning. - FMI’s weather information system SmartMet was installed and training was provided during a mission in INAMHI from 05-21 November. - A workshop on CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) related to early warning system was organized on the 25-26 September 2014 at INAMHI headquarter building, with the participation of INAMHI staff and stakeholders. This workshop had the support of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). - Weather forecast verification system was developed for INAMHI. - Calibration laboratory instrumentation and procedures were improved.

Colombia – COFIMET - Development of the capacities in data management at IDEAM was continued. A new database for IDEAM was developed in the past two years. - New instruments were purchased for calibrating meteorological sensors at IDEAM. A better implementation of the calibration laboratory and development of calibration protocols were realized during the project. - The first steps to implement a routine for AWS maintenance and calibration was implemented. - Radar experts from FMI realized a workshop on radar training. - FMI’s weather information system SmartMet was installed and training was realized in October 2014. - Progress was made in developing the weather forecast verification system and plan for IDEAM. - A workshop on CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) related to early warning system was realized on the 06-07 October 2014. This workshop had the cooperation of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). - A working group on alerts and warnings was established at IDEAM.

Bolivia – FINBOL

- Data management and QC issues were trained, and guidelines for improved meteorological and hydrological databases were drafted. - The upper-air sounding system was repaired in el Alto. Training is expected to be fullfilled in 2015 - Verification issues were trained, and the first evaluation about the forecast generated at SENAMHI based on 8 years of temperature and humidity data forecast and measurement was made. - First contact between SENAMHI and the stakeholders related with CAP alerts has been established. - The FMI is tailoring it’s early warning dissemination tool, the “smart alert” for use in Bolivia.

Andean regional – PRASDES

- In late 2013 and early 2014, CIIFEN visited the PRASDES pilot areas between Colombia and Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru and Ecuador and Peru, in order to evaluate the situation and capacities as well as identify the actors and stakeholders for project implementation. - CIIFEN visited Finland in January 2014 in order to agree on FMI and Environment Institute of Finland’s (SYKE) role and responsibilities in PRASDES implementation. - A workshop for Data Base implementation was held in Lima in March 2015. - FMI’s weather information system SmartMet was installed in Colombia and Ecuador in conjunction with the COFIMET and FINAMHI –projects.

Paraguay – FINPARA - The project was in the planning phase, with project estimated to begin in June 2015. Focus in the project is in strengthening the observation services of DMH by improving the quality and scope of the data, as well as on improving the hydrometeorological products and services provided by DMH to various stakeholders and end-users.

Vietnam – PROMOSERV II

- Introduced new approach of automatic network and service monitoring system with Nagios-software - Lightning detection training introducing new technology to NHMS, services demonstrated with lighting detection trial period - Calibration and maintenance procedures for AWS have been trained - Automatic quality-control process installed and monitored

Sudan and South Sudan – FISU

- FMI expert mission “Hands-on training on forecasting and early warning process” - Purchase of two servers and installation of numerical model WRF for mesoscale numerical prediction - Hands-on training in Khartoum on configuration and operation of the WRF numerical model - Full sponsorship on one SMA expert and co-sponsorship with WMO of another expert to participate in the Workshop on Numerical Model Verification in New Delhi, India - Consultation to SMA and Sudanese Ministry of Environment on air quality monitoring and policies; improvement of connection between SMA and stakeholders on air quality. - Support in the organization of Climate Outlook Forum for the Great Horn of Africa (GHACOF37) - Sponsorship of Head of Public Relation to one week course “Improve Communication with stakeholders” - Sponsorship of SSMD Director Mojwok Ogawi Modo to two missions in Khartoum, in the end of January and end of May.  In the first visit Mojwok attended the PB meeting and communicated with SMA experts for the procurement of manual observation instruments and South Sudan historical weather data from SMA.  In the second visit Mojwok attended the Climate Outlook Forum for the Great Horn of Africa (GHACOF37) and had the possibility of establishing/strengthening the connection with managers of neighbouring countries. In addition he could reach a final agreement of the procurement of instruments and historical data from SMA

Bhutan – SHSB

- One day workshop Socio-Economic Assessment of Hydro-Meteorological Services – Results for DHMS and stakeholders organized in Jan at Thimphu, Bhutan. Total number of participants was 35 where 20 were stakeholders.  The socio-economic study finalized in April 2014. - Observation training organized on June 2014 in Finland - Snow Training organized on Feb 2014 in Finland - Forecasting training organized on Jun 2014 in Finland. - WRF installed to DHMS in May 2014. During installation mission 3 day hands-on training organized for 3 persons and also basic training on Numerical Weather Prediction Models (total 22 participants). - A tender was made on data management system (DMS). Training on DMS was given on Sep 2014 at RTS, Kathmandu. - Current status and development needs of climate services assessed - Short term and long term development plan for climate services drafted - Facilities for Early Warning System assessed and development plan for EWS drafted - Work with communication strategy. Discussions with Disaster Risk Management and media have started.

Nepal – FNEP2 - Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) and WRF model installation and training - Forecast verification begun in DHM. In addition the WRF model data and the monsoon season data were verified. - Developing and releasing new climate services. Mission included the evaluation of the current status of DHM climate services and preparing a detailed plan to develop the services. Collaboration with ICI Bhutan and and Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR, World Bank) was taken into account when preparing the plans. - Given R software training and testing one month precipitation forecast to Kathmandu (March 2014 data). - Drafted Feature Addition Plan for the DHM Observation Database - Radar site selection survey made - Forecaster training given in Finland in June 2014 - Instrumentation training for two Nepalese technicians given in October 2014 in Finland. - A draft for the DHM’s communication plan guidelines was produced during a 4-day communication training for four people in November 2014.

Hindu Kush Himalayan – HKH HYCOS

- HKH HYCOS is a regional project lead by ICIMOD, and aims at establishing a regional data sharing platform and Early Warning System for floods in the Hindu Kush Himalayan area. - In HKH HYCOS the FMI works as an expert in Data Quality Control issues, and acts as an observer for the MFA in the bi-annual project Meetings.  The FMI has written a data Quality Control Manual for HKH HYCOS, and assisted the implementation of QC procedures in the data management system

Uzbekistan / Central Asia – FINUZ

- Installed an AWS at Uzhydromet RTC in May 2014 - The project was concluded in June 2014 with the Final Workshop Kyrgyz Republic – FINKMET

The FINKMET project was begun in January 2014. The project focuses in improving the Kyrgyzhydromet’s capacity in Data Management, Air Quality Monitoring, Strategy process, and Modern Observations and Forecasting Processes - A present situation assessment on air quality in Kyrgyz Republic was completed in March 2014 - A General plan for an Air Quality Observation Pilot system and its technical specification was drawn  Procurement process for instrumentation was begun - An expert from the Kyrgyzhydromet was sponsored to participate in the EUMETSAT training workshop in Warsaw, Poland in June 2014 - A strategic planning workshop was conducted in Helsinki in August 2014 - FMI Air Quality experts attended the International Conference on Climate Change at Issyk Kul lake organized by Kyrgyzhydromet in September 2014

Tajikistan – FINTAJ

The FINTAJ project was begun in January 2014. The project focuses in improving the Tajikhydromet’s capacity in Climate Change issues, Air Quality Monitoring, Strategy process, and Modern Observations and Forecasting Processes - Introduced downscaling and bias correction methodology used to enhance the results of the global climate models, and presented data formats used in climate sciences software tools that can be applied to climate data. - Two delegates from the Tajikhydromet attended the Bonn 2014 UNFCCC conference with the support of the FINTAJ-project. - A present situation assessment on air quality in Tajikistan was completed in May 2014 - A General plan for an Air Quality Observation Pilot system and its technical specification was drawn  Procurement process for instrumentation was begun - A strategic planning workshop was conducted in Helsinki in August 2014 - FMI Air Quality experts attended the International Conference on Climate Change at Issyk Kul lake organized by Kyrgyzhydromet in September 2014

Other information / Secondments

Summary 2014

Total sum of all FMI projects funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland in 2014 was 1,672,212.60 EUR. In addition, The FMI has implemented other development projects for e.g. WMO-DRR Balkans, Nordic Development Fund project in Malawi, and participated in the Natural Resources Institute of Finland’s agriculture development project in Kenya - totalling 167,664.30 EUR.

Activities in 2015

Total MFA funding for 2014 to FMI managed projects in the field of meteorology is estimated at 1,800,000 EUR. In addition to these projects, the government of Finland is supporting several other climate change and adaptation funds, NGOs and mechanisms.

Lists of MFA projects Caribbean SIDS-SHOCS2 Pacific SIDS – FINPAC Bolivia – FINBOL Paraguay - FINPARA Andean regional – PRASDES Vietnam – PROMOSERV2 Sudan and South Sudan – FISU Bhutan – SHSB Nepal – FNEP2 India – CLIMOB Rehabilitation of the hydrometeorological observation network for Sava river in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

Project Proposals in planning for  Myanmar  Indonesia  Sudan and South Sudan, FISU – Phase 2  Ecuador, FINAMHI – Phase 2 Activity Report – FRANCE

1. Country FRANCE

3. Overall estimated national 2. Overall national contribution in 2014 (estimate in USD) contribution in 2014 (in USD)

1 788 000 USD Unknown

4. List of Activities / Projects / Events in 2014 related to contribution 5. Sources of Funding Fellowships & training courses:  2-week Seminar “Climatology, a step towards climates services” in coordination with WMO Fellowship granted to climatologists from Armenia, Congo Brazzaville, Egypt, Estonia, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Lao, Latvia, Nigeria, Thailand  Fellowships granted for other short-term to long term courses at Météo-France/ French Embassies Ecole Nationale de la Météorologie (ENM)  Internships at Météo-France research center (CNRM) defined in annual action plans with Maghreb countries (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) in NWP

[203 000 USD] Expert missions:  Participation of 2 experts to the Workshop on Marine forecasting held in Dakar Senegal in March 2014, supported by WMO and ACMAD  Participation of an expert to PRESAO  Lectures in meteorology given at the Institute of Technology of Météo-France/ French Embassies Cambodia  Expert missions defined in annual action plans with Maghreb countries (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) in marine meteorology

[79 000 USD] Contribution to AMDAR Trust Fund [10 000 USD] Project development: French Ministry of Foreign Affairs/  Integration of water and agriculture sector into adaptation to AFD/FFEM Climate Change in West Africa Beneficiary countries/regions: Niger, Benin, Senegal, possibly extended to the 17 countries of CILLS/CEDEAO with EU fundings. Duration: 3 years (2011-2014)

 Regional project to support the development and implementation of simple carbon strategies resilient to climate change in Africa Beneficiary countries/regions: Benin, Kenya, Uganda, Gabon Duration: 3 years (starting in 2013) [1 496 000 USD]

6. Challenges in Resource Mobilization for your Activities / Projects / 7. Opportunities for Increased Activity Events for your Activities / Projects / Events  Twinning project with INM Tunisia if selected (supported by EU)  Restoration of Madagascar CDMS, CLYSIS, in  Budgetary reductions impact Météo- coordination with WMO France’s level of investment in cooperation  Support to the implementation  Lack of human resources to attend of SWFDP in Western Africa African RCOFs (PRESAO, PRESAGG) through the global NWP Center  Reduction of expert missions due to of Toulouse geopolitical context in beneficiary countries  Development of cooperation with Bangladesh with the support of the French Embassy  Growing interest of trainees for the 3-month course on Meteorology & Management at ENM supported by WMO

8. Opportunities for more cooperation with other members / organisations

 Opportunities for consortia between European SMN to work on EU twinning projects  Development of relationships with the French ODA Agencies, AFD (Agence Française de Développement) and Expertise France Activity Report – GCOS

1. Country – Global Climate Observing System - GCOS (Switzerland)

35,000 USD 83,000 USD

4. List of Activities / Projects / Events in 2014 related to contribution 5. Sources of Funding 2014 1. Provision of Radiosondes and Balloons for the operations of the Japan GUAN station at Yerevan, Armenia 2. Ongoing support + technical visit for the upgrade of the Climate GCOS Trust Fund stations and centralized processing in Madagascar 2015 1. Provision of Radiosondes and Balloons for the operations of the Japan GUAN station at Yerevan, Armenia. 2. Consultant in Africa (50% over 1 year), based in Zimbabwe, working on GCM projects in the region, issues with Climate data and specific Greece visits/assessment of the observations networks in Mali and Chad. 3. Repair, maintenance and training for the local engineers, for the Germany Hydrogen Generator located at Harare, Zimbabwe. UK (Direct Purchase order from Met 4. Repair, maintenance and training for the local engineers, for the Office not included in above financial Hydrogen Generator located at Gan, Maldives contribution)

6. Challenges in Resource Mobilization for your Activities / Projects / 7. Opportunities for Increased Activity Events for your Activities / Projects / Events

Reduced funding from sponsors into GCOS Cooperation Mechanism. Working directly with Met Services Increased requests for technical and financial support from all Regions. (funding) and projects in the Region.

See (7). Better integration between projects from different application areas. A significant proportion of the costs, both set-up and ongoing operations, is for infra-structure and communications, much of which is generic for different observational systems. WMO Voluntary Cooperation Programme – Informal Planning Meeting 2015

Activity Report Template

1. Country Germany

3. Overall estimated 2. Overall national contribution in 2014 (estimate in USD) national contribution in 2015 (in USD) Total: 2,603,640 $

Equip & Services through WMO: 33,000 $ Equip & Services bilateral: 2,254,593 $ [unknown] Fellowships & Training: 316,047 $

5. Sources of 4. List of Activities / Projects / Events in 2014 related to contribution Funding (*)

In order to support NMHSs of developing countries in the introduction of regional numerical weather prediction, the DWD provided these free of charge with the regional NWP model COSMO and the corresponding boundary data based on forecasts of its global model GME. The DWD conducted a two-week training workshop in February 2014 enabling scientists from DWD developing countries to implement and run the COSMO model at their home institutes. A special activity was that a DWD colleague spent one month in Niteroi/Brazil helping the staff with the use of NWP. [ongoing] 135,000 $ GIZ-DWD feasibility study to analyse the technical and human resources capacities of the Weather Service of Madagascar and to assess the feasibility of the introduction of the COSMO DWD/GIZ model for operational weather forecasts and warnings. [2014] 9,100 $ For all seminars held at the DWD Meteorological Training and Conference Centre or at the DWD headquarters, accommodation expenses are reduced for participants from developing DWD countries and countries with economies in transition. [ongoing] 9,900 $ DWD continues to offer training programmes/fellowships in Germany at its own offices or abroad for staff members of NMHSs of developing countries. A special measure in 2014 was that DWD coached a holder of the Alexander von Humboldt DWD Foundation scholarship from Ethiopia at the Climate and Environment Consultancy department (Jan-Nov 2014). [ongoing] 62,800 $ Data rescue: Digitization of historical handwritten records of climate data from 1550 overseas stations of the Deutsche Seewarte (German Marine Observatory). The climate journals include data on precipitation, temperature, weather and other parameters, most of the periods 1884– 1919 and 1930–1943. In 2014, 5 stations in China, Papua New Guinea and Togo have been DWD digitized (including quality control of the data). In general, once digitized the data are made available to the home countries. [ongoing] 107,300 $ Project „Data and Information Management for Adaptation to Climate Change” (DATACLIM) [2011–2014] Objective: To significantly improve the climate services of the Indonesian NMS BMKG in the DWD/GIZ (BMU) field of adaptation to climate change through the introduction of a web-based information system. 220,000 $ Germany continued to support the WMO RA VI Regional Dobson Calibration Centre at DWD Hohenpeissenberg. 52,300 $ Germany contributed to the continuous quality assurance program of the WMO by supporting the GAWTEC (Global Atmosphere Watch Training and Education Centre) [ongoing] BMU / DWD 10,600 $ Two courses were financed during 2014 to provide technical assistance and training to station personnel and central facilities. (Most trainees came from countries in the WMO regions Africa, Asia and South America). 105,800 $ SASSCAL is a joint initiative of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Germany undertaken to respond to the challenges of global change. The aim is to establish a Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management in the region. Deutscher Wetterdienst contributes to the project through its co-operation with the National Meteorological Services (NMSs) on the improvement of climate data management. Since mid- 2013, with the funds coming from BMBF, two scientists at DWD have been tasked with helping the local teams of the NMSs to install and use Climsoft, a Climate Data Management DWD / BMBF System developed in the region. Support and guidance are also given in the field of Data Rescue activities. In addition, DWD advices SASSCAL on the possibilities of accessing climate data in general and helps it by organizing workshops and coordinating the cooperation with relevant international activities, e.g. WMO and UK Met Office. [2012–2017] DWD’s contribution 170,000 $ Setup of weather stations and servers in Botswana and Angola 825,000 $ WASCAL: The West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use is a large-scale research-focused Climate Service Center mandated to help the countries to tackle the challenges of climate change in West Africa. It was established by its member countries – Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d‘Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo – with the support of BMBF. West African partners: the national meteorological services of Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Côte d‘Ivoire, Mali and Togo. In 2014, the evaluation of existing networks was completed for Togo, Burkina Faso and Cote BMBF d’Ivoire, Mali, Benin and Ghana. The costs for maintenance or upgrading of the stations have been evaluated. As to the densification and modernization of the networks, sites have been identified, together with the NMHSs, for 27 new weather stations in Burkina Faso, Togo and Cote d’Ivoire. As to digital data rescue, the inventory of uninterrupted stations in Togo, Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire was started in 2014 [2012–2017]

In November, the German IHP/HWRP Secretariat organised and supported a workshop on seasonal prediction in Koblenz. 30 participants from all WMO Regions participated. The secretariat further supported a PhD student from Vietnam. 10 participants from downstream countries of the Danube, including Ukraine, were supported IHP/HWRP to participate in the meeting of Danubian hydrological cooperation in Deggendorf, Germany, in September 2014. The secretariat has started to collaborate with Jordan and Brazil towards improved data cooperation in the field of water quality. _ 77,000 $ CAWa project (Regional Research Network “Water in Central Asia”) and the GFZ’s “Global Change Observatory” In the framework of the CAWa project, two training seminars have been held for specialists from Central Asian and Afghan Hydrometeorological services and research institutions: 1. Installation, Operation and Maintenance of CAWa HyMet Hydrometeorological Monitoring Stations; and 2. Operation and Maintenance of CAWa HyMet Hydrometeorological Monitoring Stations. The GFZ (AA) course materials are available as e-learning modules at the project’s e-learning platform. As to infrastructure, one additional automated hydrometeorological monitoring station was installed in Uzbekistan in 2014 as part of the regional hydrometeorological monitoring network of the CAWa project. The station is a multi-parameter station providing meteorological information as well as data on snow characteristics and water level and river discharge information for the Maidantal river. The station was installed in cooperation with the UNDP “Climate Risk Management in Uzbekistan” programme. The modular stations may be extended to complex stations by other sensors, e.g. for early warning purposes. [2008-2017] 102,300 $ KfW project Ecuador: The programme includes a component for the establishment of hydrological and meteorological stations in the province of Tungurahua. In the field of data recording and periodical evaluation, the Provincial Government cooperates with the national KfW meteorological institute (INAHMI). 160,400 $ [2010-2014] GIZ project Lebanon: Protection of Jeita Spring: 5 weather stations were handed over to Litani River Authority. Cooperation with Council for Development and Reconstruction, Ministry of Energy and Water. GIZ / BMZ [2014] 66,000 $ Adaptation to Climate Change in Mozambique: “Community-based flood early warning system in the Mozambican part of the Limpopo Basin”. INAM is involved. Financed by AusAid, UKAid and German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. GIZ/BMZ [2013–2015] 110,000 $ Southern African Development Community (SADC) - Transboundary Water Management; Cooperation with national meteorological services to strengthen WMO-initiated hydro-met system (HYCOS). Special measure: A GIZ development aid colleague works for the GIZ/BMZ Department of Meteorology in Botswana. [2014] ca. 230.000 $

6. Activities in 2015 will mostly cover the same areas and involve the same amounts as in 2014, intensification activity is possible in the following areas:

- WASCAL: Workshop on “Regional Hydro-climate observation network set-up” (ReHCONS) 22-24 January 2015, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The aim of the workshop was to improve the quality of the information provided by the National Meteorological and Hydrological Services of the member countries by connecting regional partners in a hydro-meteorological data collection and infrastructure network. Approximately 80 experts from National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS), research institutions and West African universities participated in the workshop. Maintenance or upgrading of the existing stations is planned for 2015 as well as densification and modernization of the networks with new automatic weather stations. Training on data rescue and paper/microfiches digitization services have been initiated with ACMAD for 2015.

-CAWa project Central Asia: In 2015, the CAWa project partners plan to install a total of 4 new stations in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Furthermore, additional trainings for Hydromet specialists are foreseen.

- Zambia: Climate Monitoring and Early Warning System for Weather-related Disasters: German Development Cooperation supports the establishment of an Integrated Water Resources Management Information System (IWRMIS). Funds will come from the German Energy and Climate fund. Measures: modernization and extension of rain gauging network to around 500 stations, data transmission facilities at meteorological stations, training, digitalization and quality control of historical met. data (ZMD is involved). The establishment of the Water Management Authority (WARMA) as a recipient of IWRMIS was heavily delayed in 2014. Call for bids are underway and most contracts are close to being concluded so that the implementation of the system is supposed to start in 2015. -Madagascar: As a result of the mission of the DWD experts to Madagascar in 2014: The Weather Service of Madagascar will submit a project application to GIZ in Q2 2015, with the objective to use the COSMO model for regional numerical weather prediction in Madagascar.

WMO Voluntary Cooperation Programme – Informal Planning Meeting 2015

1. Country Hong Kong, China

2. Overall national contribution in 2014 (estimate in USD) 3. Overall estimated national contribution in 2015 (in USD)

27,200 USD 28,000 USD

4. List of Activities / Projects / Events in 2014 related to contribution 5. Sources of Funding (I) Workshop on Data Assimilation and Mesoscale Ensemble Forecasting was held on 1-5 December 2014, to introduce the latest data assimilation and mesoscale ensemble Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSARG) forecasting techniques for strengthening the capacity of NMHSs in provision of weather services, in particular the forecasting of high-impact weather events. (II) The revamped World Weather Information Service (WWIS) website, incorporating GIS technology and some new features, was launched in June at a side event of the WMO Executive Council. A mobile version was also included to enhance user experience. (III) Lectures on numerical weather prediction, nowcasting, public weather services and media communication were delivered in the Regional Training Workshop under WMO Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project (SWFDP) held at Manila in June. (IV) The Asian Consortium for NWP Forecasts (ACNF) website was revamped and the forecast products were provided to the participants of the VCP workshop in addition to the existing users.

7. Opportunities for Increased Activity for your Activities / Projects / 6. Challenges in Resource Mobilization for your Activities / Projects / Events Events

Hong Kong, China welcomes additional funding from WMO to assist Members in Hong Kong, China will continue to contribute to VCP and take forward pilot participating in the VCP courses and pilot projects, if required. projects and relevant training/workshops to assist developing countries.

The Workshop provided a good platform for Members to share their knowledge and experience in data assimilation and mesoscale models. Further exchange (Item 4(I)) of experience in the implementation of data assimilation systems and operation of mesoscale models by NMHSs of Members is encouraged. Hong Kong, China also welcomes greater participation of other Members in the pilot projects, as well as WWIS and Severe Weather Information Centre (SWIC) to develop the capacity of Members in need in the provision of public weather services. The VCP and related activities by Japan - report on 2014 and outlook for 2015

1. Overall Japan ’ s Contribution In 2014, through the Japan Trust Fund for Global Frameworks established in 2010 as Japan’s financial contribution to a broad range of WMO programmes and projects, Japan made a cash contribution of US$ 62,000 (after deducting 10% as WMO support cost). Also, Japan provided training courses/workshops and fellowships equivalent to US$ 318,341 during the year. In addition, Japan’s bilateral ODA projects for National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) of developing countries were implemented, mainly in Southeast Asia.

2. Training Issues 2.1 Organization of Training Courses/Workshops  In March 2014, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) hosted the JMA/WMO Workshop on Effective Tropical Cyclone Warnings in Southeast Asia. The workshop was intended to promote understanding among participating countries regarding the latest tropical cyclone (TC) analysis/forecasting and warning services, and to discuss ways to address the challenges including external assistance. It was attended by 9 experts from NMHSs in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, the Philippines and Viet Nam as well as representatives of WMO and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), lecturers from the National Hurricane Centre (NHC), the Central Pacific Hurricane Centre (CPHC) of US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service (NOAA/NWS) and the Joint Typhoon Warning Centre (JTWC).  From July to August 2014, on-the-job training for typhoon forecasters, funded by the Typhoon Committee (TC), was offered to three forecasters from Lao PDR, Malaysia and the Philippines at RSMC Tokyo - Typhoon Centre.  From September to December 2014, JMA conducted a three-month Group Training Course Reinforcement of Meteorological Services with funding support from JICA. The course was attended by eight participants from eight countries (Bhutan; Cook Islands; Indonesia; Lao PDR; Mauritius; Myanmar; Sri Lanka and Vanuatu). This course aimed at reinforcement of meteorological services of the participating NMHSs by applying meteorological data/products such as numerical weather prediction, satellite images, and climate information to their services.  In November 2014, JMA Workshop on WMO Information System Implementation 2014 was held by the Global Information System Centre (GISC) Tokyo. The workshop was intended to promote understanding among participants regarding the WIS Competency Framework, operational guidelines for backup procedures and WIS Monitoring standards. It was attended by 18 representatives from NMHSs in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, the Philippines, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Viet Nam, as well as presenters from GISC Offenbach (Germany), GISC Beijing (China) and the WMO Secretariat.  Also in November 2014, JMA held a technical meeting for two experts from Thailand Meteorological Department as part of the activities of the project, Development of Regional Radar Network endorsed during the 46th TC session in February 2014.  In fiscal year 2014, JMA’s Tokyo Climate Center held the Training Seminar on Global Warming Projection Information from 26 to 30 January 2015 at JMA Headquarters in Tokyo. The event was attended by 13 experts from NMHSs in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Hong Kong (China), Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Viet Nam. The seminar focused on enhancing knowledge regarding global warming and related issues, and on improving individual countries' capacity for the generation of global warming projection information. 2.2 Supports to Training Courses/Workshops  In February and March 2014, Regional Training Workshop on Weather Radar Basis & Routine Maintenance and Real-Time Radar Rainfall Estimation & Forecasting was implemented under ASEAN Sub-Committee on Meteorology and Geophysics (SCMG) framework developed by Thailand and Malaysia in collaboration through Japan-ASEAN integration Fund (JAIF). It was attended by 20 participants from NMHSs in Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam as well as lecturers from JMA, JICA, Kyoto-university and Japanese radar manufacture.

2.3 Expert Missions In 2014, JMA organized the following expert missions to NMHSs of developing countries for technology transfer, capacity development and/or investigation:  Expert mission to the Philippines and Viet Nam to give advises on utilization of GISC system in April 2014  Expert mission to Myanmar to give advises on utilization of GISC system in June 2014  Expert mission to Myanmar to give lectures on producing Probabilistic Forecast Guidance of One-month Seasonal Forecast in June 2014  Expert mission to the Philippines to give lectures on Wave Forecasting and Utilization of JMA’s Storm Surge models in December 2014 In addition, in April 2014, JMA dispatched a total of nine experts to the Post-Typhoon Haiyan Expert Mission to the Philippines jointly orgazied by WMO and the Typhoon Committee, and the mission to Viet Nam organized by WMO, to survey the devastated area caused by Typhoon Haiyan (Yoranda).

3. Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) 3.1 Grant Aid Projects  Grant Aid Project of Improvement of Equipment and Facilities on Meteorological and Hydrological Services (total: US$6 million) was launched in 2014 in Lao PDR for the enhancement of rainfall and thus river flood monitoring skills. The project provides Lao PDR with automated rain-gauge stations, automated water-level gauge stations and a Global Telecommunication System (GTS).  Grant Aid Project of Establishment of specialised medium range weather forecasting centre and strengthening of weather forecasting system (total: US$26 million) was launched in 2014 in Pakistan for improvement the accuracy of weather forecasts and to disseminate forecasts and warnings speedily. The project provides Pakistan with replacement of existing meteorological radar in Islamabad, a wind profiler system and a Global Telecommunication System (GTS).

3.2 Technical Cooperation Projects  Technical Cooperation Project of Capacity Development of GLOF and Rainstorm Flood Forecasting and Early Warning in the Kingdom of Bhutan was launched in 2013 in Bhutan. As a part of the activities of the project, JMA welcomed additional three participants from Bhutan Department of Hydro-Met Services (DHMS) to a part of JICA Group Training Course Reinforcement of Meteorological Services.  Technical Cooperation Project of Enhancing Capacity on Weather Observation, Forecasting and Warning was launched in 2014 in the Philippines. This is for enhancement of capacity on meteorological monitoring, forecasting and warning by Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA). As a part of the activities of the project, a retired seinior official from JMA has been dispatched as a long-term expert.  Technical Cooperation Project of Improving of Meteorological Observation, Weather Forecasting and Dissemination was launched in 2014 in Sri Lanka. This is for improvement the forecasting capability of the Department of Meteorology (DOM) and thereby effectively improving its capacity to minimize the impact of weather hazards. As a part of the activities of the project, a retired senior official from JMA has been dispatched as a long-term expert.  Technical Cooperation Project of Reinforcing Meteorological Training Function of FMS was launched in 2014 in Fiji. As a part of the activities of the project, an ex-member of JMA has been dispatched as a long-term expert.

4. Plans for 201 5 Himawari-8, the next generation meteorological satellite of JMA launched at 7 October 2014, is scheduled to start operation in mid-2015. All imagery derived from the satellite will be distributed to NMHSs via an Internet cloud service. Full sets of data will also be provided to researchers via archive servers operated by the Japanese Science Group on a best-effort basis. The HimawariCast Service will additionally disseminate primary sets of imagery via a communication satellite. By using the Japan Trust Fund for Global Frame Works, with WMO/DRA’s considerable assistances, JMA will provide seven sets of receiving equipment of HimawariCast to NMHSs of the Southeast Asian countries. Also, JICA will provide the system to several NMHSs in the South Pacific Islands. The on-site training for the receiving system accompanied with the installation will be conducted as well as additional trainings on the occasion of the Sixth Asia/Oceania Meteorological Satellite Users’ Conference (AOMSUC-6) to be held in Tokyo in November 2015. Also, a series of follow-up trainings for recipients of the receiving system is being planned. In addition to the direct financial contribution to WMO activities through the Japan Trust Fund for Global Frameworks, JMA will make contribution to capacity developments of developing countries’ NMHSs, through organizing trainings/workshops and expert missions including AOMSUC-6, as well as the Group Training Course Reinforcement of Meteorological Services in cooperation with JICA to be held from September to December 2015. Several Japan’s ODA (Grant Aid or Technical Cooperation) Projects for developing countries’ NMHSs are being planned or planned to be implemented not only in Southeast/South Asia but also in Africa. Holding the fourth JICA-JMA-WMO meeting is under consideration to share relevant information and exchange views at the working level for the enhancement of synergies between Japan’s ODA projects and WMO activities. 1. Country Japan

2. Overall national contribution in 2014 (estimate in 3. Overall estimated national contribution in 2014 (in US$) US$) VCP(F) US$ 0 VCP(ES) US$ 380,341 Unknown VCP(ES) Bilateral arrangement unknown

4. List of Activities / Projects / Events in 2014 related 5. Sources of Funding to contribution WMO ESCAP Typhoon Committee Trust Fund Japan Trust Fund for Global Frameworks US$ 12,000 GCOS Cooperation Mechanism Japan Trust Fund for Global Frameworks CHF 50,000 (US$ 50,000) Group Training Course: Reinforcement of Meteorological Services (Bhutan; Cook Islands; Indonesia; Lao PDR; Mauritius; Myanmar; Sri Lanka JICA and Vanuatu), Tokyo, Japan, September to December 2014 JPY 9,887,000 (US$ 98,870) On-the-job training for typhoon forecasters, 2 weeks, ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee (Lao PDR, Malaysia and the Philippines), Tokyo, Japan, World Meteorological Organization July 2014 JMA/WMO Workshop on Effective Tropical Cyclone Warnings in Southeast Asia (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, the JMA Philippines and Viet Nam; WMO, JICA, NHC, CPHC, JTWC), Tokyo, Japan, February 2014 JPY 5,291,000 (US$ 52,910) JMA Workshop on WMO Information System Implementation 2014 (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, the Philippines, Qatar, Sri Lanka, JMA Thailand and Viet Nam; WMO, GISC Germany, GISC China), Tokyo, Japan, November 2014. JPY 7,080,000 (US$ 70,800) A technical meeting on radar composite map for Thailand Meteorological Department under ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee, Tokyo, Japan, November 2014 Project of Improvement of Equipment and Facilities on Meteorological and Hydrological Services (Grant Aid JICA Project), 2014-, Lao PDR Project of Establishment of specialised medium range weather forecasting centre and strengthening of weather JICA forecasting system (Grant Aid Project), 2014-, Pakistan Project of Capacity development of GLOF and Rainstorm Flood Forecasting and Early Warning in the JICA Kingdom of Bhutan (Technical Cooperation Project), 2013-, Bhutan Project of Enhancing Capacity on Weather Observation, Forecasting and Warning (Technical Cooperation JICA Project), 2014-, the Philippines Project of Improving of Meteorological Observation, Weather Forecasting and Dissemination (Technical JICA Cooperation Project), 2014-, Sri Lanka Project of Reinforcing Meteorological Training Function JICA of FMS (Technical Cooperation Project), 2014-, Fiji Regional Training Workshop on Weather Radar Basis & Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan (Japan-ASEAN Routine Maintenance and Real-Time Radar Rainfall Integrated Fund: JAIF) Estimation & Forecasting (Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam; JICA, Kyoto-university and Japanese Radar Manufacturer), Bangkok, Thailand, February-March 2014. US$ 95761

6. Challenges in Resource Mobilization for your 7. Opportunities for Increased Activity for your Activities / Projects / Events Activities / Projects / Events - Insufficient available experts to dispatch developing countries’ NMHSs for implementation of ODA technical cooperation projects - Need more regular communication between JMA JMA will and the donor agency to develop effective and - organize trainings/workshops regularly, and efficient ODA projects - promote informal discussion with the donor agency - Need mechanisms to share information on to enhance synergies between JMA’s activities, developing countries’ NMHSs between JMA and ODA projects and WMO activities. the donor agency - Need more communication with recipient NMHSs to identify their needs

8. Opportunities for more cooperation with other members / organizations

IPM could be a good opportunity to explore possible cooperation with other Members/organizations if more funding agencies can participate in IPM to share their activities with WMO and developed countries’ NMHSs.

(1 US$ = 1 CHF = 100 JPY)

Activity Report – COUNTRY

1. Country New Zealand

222,200 USD 220k USD

4. List of Activities / Projects / Events in 2014 related to contribution 5. Sources of Funding Observing Programme Support for Pacific Island Countries & Territories Provision of programme management, technical consultancy and engineering support, on a multi-lateral basis in conjunction with the US NOAA PI-GCOS support programme and the UK Met Office Pacific MetService Fund programme (administered by SPREP from 1 April 2014). Includes technical support and advice via remote and in-country visits to Cook Islands, Kiribati, Niue, Tonga, Samoa, Tuvalu, Tokelau, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands US$40k Severe Weather Forecasting and Disaster Risk Reduction Demonstration Project (SWFDDP) – regional coordination by RSMC Wellington, including maintaining the MetConnect Pacific website. MetService US$43k [NB: upgrade to MetConnect Pacific in 2014 was funded (US$58k) by NOAA through WMO – not accounted for here]. SIDS - Online banner placement to support the ‘Weather Together’ campaign at the third UN Conference on Small Island Developing States MetService (SIDS) in Apia, Samoa, 1-4 Sept 2014. NZ$7.6k APN contributing to CAPaBLE - Assistance to the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) contributing to the Capacity Development and Enhancement for Sustainable Development in Developing Countries Programme (CAPaBLE). CAPaBLE builds and NZ MfE enhances scientific capacity in developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region to improve their decision-making in target areas related to climate change, water and food security, and global change that are linked directly to their sustainable development. US$22.7k IPCC - support for “Pacific launch” events to share Pacific-relevant information from the Working Group II and Working Group III contributions to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report with Pacific island NZ MfE stakeholders. These outreach events were held in Fiji and Samoa in May 2014. US$18.9k Continued development of improved Pacific mean sea-level variation forecasts in cooperation. Assessment of new methodologies completed and currently being developed in to an operational system with NOAA / NIWA East-West Center, University of Hawaii, Bureau of Meteorology, CSIRO US$15k ICU - Development of new regional cyclone and water resource products NIWA from the Island Climate Outlook US$10k CLiDESC – Continued development of the CLiDESC climate services product generation tool that links to the CLIDE climate database NIWA developed for the Pacific region by the Bureau of Meteorology. US$50k Underpinning ad hoc advice and collegial support to Pacific Island technical staff involved in meteorological and hydrological monitoring in NIWA Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands, Niue, Tuvalu, Micronesia, and Solomon Islands US$15k

6. Challenges in Resource Mobilization for your Activities / Projects / 7. Opportunities for Increased Activity Events for your Activities / Projects / Events Opportunities may arise from the Finnish- Pacific Project (FINPAC), administered by SPREP. Budget restrictions within New Zealand government agencies will continue to put pressure on funding for voluntary support programmes. Required upgrades to the upper air network ground stations likely to see close collaboration between relevant partners.

MfE’s support for APN will likely continue at the same level. In addition, MfE will continue to look for other opportunities in the Pacific area.

MetService is collaborating with WMO on Pacific in-country training for the SWFDDP (April/May 2015). Activity Report – COUNTRY

1. Country: NORWAY

3. Overall estimated national contribution 2. Overall national contribution in 2014 (estimate in USD) in 2015 (in USD)

~ USD 800.000 ~ USD 900.000

4. List of Activities / Projects / Events in 2014 related to contribution 5. Sources of Funding Met. capacity building projects (supported and funded by The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs – MFA) in:  Bangladesh – BMD ~ USD 200.000

 Myanmar – DMH ~ USD 200.000 The Norwegian MFA

 Vietnam – NHMS ~USD 200.000

Oceanographic/Met capacity building project (funded by MFA) at Cuba. Budget: ~ USD 150.000. Collaboration with 3 Cubanian institutions:  INSMET

 CIP The Norwegian MFA

 IDO

Project “INDICE”: Capacity building in Calcutta India in empirical- The Norwegian MFA and The Research statistical downscaling in collaboration with TERI and Uni Res in Dehli. Council of Norway

6. Challenges in Resource Mobilization for your Activities / 7. Opportunities for Increased Activity for Projects / Events your Activities / Projects / Events

Possible collaboration with Met Office So far mainly projects supported and funded by MFA. (UK) on capacity building in Mozambique.

Possible collaboration with Met Office (UK) on capacity building in Mozambique. Planning phase. WMO Voluntary Cooperation Programme – Informal Planning Meeting 2015

1. Country Republic of Korea

2. Overall national contribution in 2014 (estimate in USD) 3. Overall estimated national contribution in 2015 (in USD) 3,726,000 USD 4,235,000 USD

4. List of Activities / Projects / Events in 2014 related to contribution 5. Sources of Funding Capacity Development Program, Multi-year Capacity KOICA Development Program on ICT for meteorological service * Korea International Cooperation Agency – 15 staffs(Philippines, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, 93,000$) Capacity Development Program, Multilateral KOICA Capacity Development Program on ICT for meteorological service – 15 staffs(Haiti, Malaysia, Fiji, El Salvador etc, 93,000$) Capacity Development Program, KMA Training course on Weather Radar Operation and Data Utilization – * Korea Meteorological Administration 17 staffs(Indonesia, Mongolia, Ethiopia, Uganda etc, 97,000$) Capacity Development Program, KMA Training Course on weather forecasting for operational meteorologist -10 staffs (Myanmar, Lao PDR, Kenya, Ethiopia etc., 97,000$) Dispatching the retired meteorological experts – NIPA 3 countries: Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Mongolia * National IT Industry Promotion Agency(Korea) Modernization of Forecasting and Warning KMA System for Natural Disaster in Vietnam ('14~'16, 4,000,000$) 486,000$(’14) Project for Disaster Risk Reduction KOICA through Installation of Meteorological Observation and Early Warning System in Ethiopia (’14~’17, 4,000,000$) 1,000,000$(’14) Project for Improving Monitoring Capacity for Sand and Dust Storm KOICA (SDS) / Particulate Matter in China ('14~'16, 3,000,000$) 1,000,000$(’14) Feasibility study for "Master plan for modernization meteorological KMA service in Myanmar" (200,000$) Support the TAPS(Typhoon Analysis and Prediction System) in Lao PDR KMA (5,000$) Establishment of Communication, KOICA Ocean, and Meteorological Satellite Analysis System in Philippines (2013- 2014) WMO-KMA Cooperation Project (ES) – KMA Modernization of Aviation Meteorological Center of Mongolia for Improving the aeronautical weather services (655,000$) WMO-KMA Cooperation Project (ES) KMA – Climate Data Restoration Project in Uzbekistan (2013-2015) WMO-KMA Cooperation Project (ES) – KOICA

Development of an Integrated Coastal Inundation Forecasting System in Fiji, (2012-2013) Supporting the COMS data to 30 developing KMA countries and Numerical Data to 30 developing countries for free Invitation and consulting meteorological technology KMA – Indonesia Delegation’s Visit to KMA, Equipment and Technical Support for practical use of the COMS Data (Philippine, Sri Lanka, Lao PDR, etc.), Asia Meteorological Partnerships and Cooperation Enhancement Workshop

6. Challenges in Resource Mobilization for your Activities / Projects / 7. Opportunities for Increased Events Activity for your Activities / Projects / Events Government’s ODA budget is increasing, but the meteorological ODA The number of requesting from budget is unstable compared with other areas such as Civil Engineering, developing Health etc. countries for getting ODA projects is The most important thing for secure ODA budget from KOICA or other increasing, resource mobilization is the wiliness of the recipient countries for getting and the Korea’s budget administration the projects, but almost recipient countries doesn’t consider the understands Meteorological area a high priority. the importance of meteorological and hydrological ODA projects.

8. Opportunities for more cooperation with other members / organizations Because the total fund of ODA in Republic of Korea is increasing now, KMA expects the meteorological and hydrological ODA funds also increase. KMA is cooperate with KOICA continuously, and extends the own ODA budget for immediate responding from developing country’s request. KMA would like to continuously cooperate with WMO for supporting the developing countries, so KMA dispatched a staff to WMO for organizing and implementing the cooperate ODA projects. KMA explains and persuades the importance of meteorology and hydrology areas with credit assistance organizations in KOREA such as EDCF, and will cooperate with the organizations. KMA would like to cooperate with WB, ADB and AfDB. VCP report for Spain 2014-2015

(a) Summary report on the VCP technical cooperation activities carried out by your country in 2013 and prospects for 2014;

Spain doesn’t carry out technical cooperation activities through VCP. All cooperation activities are bilateral or multilateral.

(b) Brief summary of related bilateral/multilateral technical cooperation activities.

Both activities during 2014 and prospects from 2015 in the Ibero-American Cooperation Programme are outlined in the CIMHET-XI Quito meeting declaration (2013) and the Quito action plan (2014-17) and refined and updated in the CIMHET-XII Cartagena meeting declaration (2015). The strategic alliance between AEMET and AECID (the Spanish Aid Agency) has been deepened and reinforced, securing thus most of the Capacity Development Activities until 2017. The West African Cooperation Programme follows the guidelines established in the AFRIMET meeting declaration of Boadilla (2012), although this programme has experienced some redesign and internal work both at AEMET and WMO and is expected to be actively revamped during 2015.

The Izaña Atmospheric Research Centre has continued its training and maintenance activities related to the aerosol observation network in Northern Africa, the Barcelona Dust Forecast Centre has become fully operational as WMO RMSC-ASDF and has carried organized a training workshop for its North African users and MedCOF has gained cruise speed and AEMET is supporting the participation of the North African NMHSs in this COF as well as organizing and supporting the COF itself.

ACTIVITIES DURING 2014 CIMHET (Ibero-American Cooperation Programme) Governance, coordination, information  Maintenance and update of www.cimhet.org webpage  Enhancement of coordination with RA III and CSB; side event in RA III-XVI, Asunción (Paraguay)  Coordination with CODIA (Ibero-American Network of Water Services), Antigua (Guatemala) GFCS-related activities  Support to the Climate Outlook Forums of Central America and S South America.  Support to the Regional Workshop on Climate Services at the National Level for Latin America. San José (Costa Rica) (1)  Organization of the Regional Workshop on Drought and its effects in South America. Santa Cruz (Bolivia) (2).  Organization of the Workshop on advanced capacities of the MCH database management system. Madrid (Spain) (3). Education and Training activities  Course on applications of satellite meteorology to tropical latitudes forecasting and weather watch. Antigua (Guatemala) (4).  Course on the management of hydrometeorological automated networks for NMHSs. Santa Cruz (Bolivia) (5).  Course on observation and forecasting of air quality for NMHSs. Antigua (Guatemala) (5).  Training on the product use and interpretation of ECMWF NWP for DMN Chile. Santiago (Chile).  Distance (on-line) Training course for aeronautical forecasters (COMET-Based)  Support to the Workshop on the evaluation of the aeronautical competences of the NMHSs. Buenos Aires (Argentina). Total trainees in 2013: 124 (plus 25 on-line) Support to horizontal cooperation  Spanish expert to DMH-Paraguay for consultancy on the new institutional framework.  Support to Ibero-American experts to ONAMET-Dominican Republic and INSUVUMEH-Guatemala on the installation of the MCH database management system.  Support to Mexican, Dominican and Venezuelan experts to attend the Workshop on calculation, interpretation and forecasts of the SPI drought Index in Costa Rica.

(1) Together with WMO-GFCS, SMN and CONAGUA (2) With support from AECID and GWP (3) WMO funded, participants from America, Africa and Eastern Europe (4) With support from EUMETSAT and AECID (5) With support from AECID

AFRIMET (West African Cooperation Programme) MARINEMET project  Different consultancy tasks in order to finish the pilot stage of the project and complete the transfer of operational duties to the countries (ongoing)  Maintenance of the installed equipments (AWS and tide-gauges)  Delivery of products in the webpage www.afrimet.org/marinemet/.

METAGRI OPS project In-kind participation in the EUMETSAT Workshop on use of Satellite Products for Agrometeorology, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso). Other activities Maintenance and update of the trilingual webpage of the Conference of the W African Directors of NMHSs (AFRIMET) www.afrimet.org.

SDS-Africa and GAW-Sahara Cooperation activities from the Izaña Atmospheric Research Centre

 Quality assurance of SDS observations and capacity development for the AERONET Stations of Tunis-INM (Tunisia), Cairo-EMA (Egypt) and Tamanrasset GAW Station (Algeria)

Total trainees in 2014: 4

Other activities  Currently AEMET is co-responsible for the ozonesonde program at the GAW Ushuaia (Argentina) station, providing a receiving radio/ozone sonde station. Data provided by this program, which has been run throughout 2014, are fundamental for the monitoring of the evolution of the ozone layer in the Antarctic.  Management of the photometers network in North Africa, comprising measurements from the Canary Is. (Spain), Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt.

SDS-WAS regional node for North Africa, Middle East and Europe (BDFC-Barcelona Dust Forecast Center)

AEMET, together with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) host and run this WMO Regional Meteorological Specialised Centre in Atmospheric Sand and Dust Forecasts (RMSC-ASDF), that turned operational in 2014 http://dust.aemet.es

BDFC provides operational forecasts on atmospheric sand and dust for North African (N the Equator), Middle East and European countries, and also develops capacity development activities such as the 4th Training Course on WMO SDS-WAS products, Casablanca (Morocco), November 2014, co-sponsored by AEMET, EUMETSAT and MeteoMaroc. (Total trainees: 13)

CIIFEN-related activities AEMET keeps supporting the operations of the International Centre for Research on El Niño (CIIFEN) in Guayaquil (Ecuador), by mainly funding the fees of its International Director. Besides, AEMET held in 2014 the Chairmanship of the International Board of CIIFEN and is allowing the participation of this RCC for Western South America in the pertinent fora (such as CIMHET).

ACMAD-related activities Support of 4 North African experts (from Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt) to attend the Third Session of the Mediterranean Climate Outlook Forum (MedCOF-3) in November, Antalya( Turkey). Spain (AEMET) is supporting this initiative, using the ACMAD TF in WMO to support African participation in this forum http://medcof.aemet.es

PROSPECTS FOR 2015 CIMHET:

ETR/Capacity Development  Reinforcement of on-line training:  Launch of the mixed on-line/attending BIP-M authorizing course (June 2015)  Strategic alliance with AECID through the new Theme Knowledge Communities (CTC). AEMET is partner in two CTCs: Environment and Climate Change and Water and Sanitation. This grants AECID support to CIMHET CD activities and Conference Meetings until 2017 (included). Resource mobilisation/GFCS related activities  Design of regional-scope demonstration projects to be funded by the Latin American Investment Found (LAIF), EC-IADB-AECID: Data rescue, assimilation and generation of CC scenarios; early warning multi-risk systems (Central America).  Strengthening of links with other stakeholders in cooperation, regional networks, etc. AFRIMET: Change in the programme management at AEMET in 2015. General revamp of the Programme presented in RA I-16 Cape Verde, currently on-going the redesign phase.

MARINEMET project: Completion of the demonstration stage.  Organization of a workshop with the current stakeholders to determine a roadmap for the completion of the demonstration stage.  Finish the configuration of computers and software and delivery to the countries, especially to the Dakar RSMC.  System operation, currently working at AEMET HQs is expected to be transferred to Dakar RSMC in 2015.  Finish the modellisation in port areas.  Change the webpage design and products delivered.  In-situ training after delivery of equipments. Workshops with end users.  Consideration of extension of the area modelled to the Gulf of Guinea. METAGRI OPS project  New projects to be presented at the Afrimet-VI meeting  Linkages to WASCAL? HEALTHMET  Currently linked with WMO-WHO joint office to look for synergies  Reinforcement of synergies with SDS and HEALTHMET programmes. Workshop on health and dust together with WHO and USAid(?) for 4T 2015-1T 2016  Linkages to WASCAL?

Other  Organization of the AFRIMET-VI meeting for 4T 2015 (venue tbd).

SDS-Africa and GAW Sahara:  After the completion of both projects, work will continue along two main lines: capacity development related to SDS-WAS and maintenance of the GAW-Sahara/AERONET current network. Funding will be provided with the Spain TF for ACMAD.  Twinnings with GAW stations in Ushuaia (Argentina) and Tamanrasset (Algeria) are expected to continue. CIIFEN: Spain involvement in CIIFEN has evolved to a more active participation in the Scientific Board of CIIFEN, and a broader strategic alliance within the CIMHET framework and the RCC-WSA. AEMET has chaired the International Board of CIIFEN during 2014 and has transferred the chairmanship to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador at the IB meeting of March 2015 in Cartagena (Colombia). ACMAD: The cooperation of Spain with ACMAD is active along two main lines: SDS and GAW activities in North Africa and support to MedCOF for North African countries.

(c) Estimated financial value of those contributions for VCP in 2013 (USD) through the VCP- Equipment and Services (VCP(ES)), Training/Fellowships and also equipment and services by bilateral/multilateral arrangements; CIMHET (Ibero-American Cooperation Programme) Governance, coordination, information: 8,500 USD GFCS-related activities: 32,500 USD ETR activities: 185,000 USD Horizontal cooperation: 15,000 USD Total 2014: 241,000 USD Note: This expense is directly attributable to the TF created by AEMET in WMO and estimates of AECID expenses.

AFRIMET (West African Cooperation Programme) Total 2014: 8,100 USD

SDS-Africa and GAW-Sahara Total 2014: 14,000 USD

BDFC Activities Capacity Development (from ACMAD TF): 40,000 USD Direct AEMET support to BDFC: 18,600 USD

MedCOF (from ACMAD TF) Total 2014: 15,000 USD

CIIFEN Total 2014: 76,206 USD

TOTAL SPAIN 2014: 412,906 USD

Note: These quantities are subject to final cross-check with WMO FIN. Report on Swiss contributions to the WMO Voluntary Cooperation Programme (VCP) and relate d Technical Cooperation Programmes

Swiss contributions in 2014 and planned Swiss contributions for 2015

USD* 2015, USD* 2014 Planned Voluntary cash contribution to the international part of the GAW Programme: GAW Quality Assurance and Science Activity Centre (QA/SAC) for ozone, carbon dioxide and methane 89’500 89’500 World Calibration Centre (WCC) for ozone, carbon monoxide and methane 263’200 263’200 GAW Station Mount Kenya, Equipment and personnel expenses including Kenya-Switzerland Trust fund 3’400 105’300 World Radiation Centre (PMOD/WRC), including World Infrared Calibration Centre, World Optical Depth Research and Calibration Centre, and World UV Calibration Center 1’438’800 1’438’800 World Climate Conference III follow up, Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) 105’300 105’300 Contribution of the Swiss Government to the WMO GFCS Trust Fund toward the costs of conference facilities of the Second Meeting of the Intergovernmental Board on Climate Services 157’900 0 SPARC International Project Office 52’600 52’600 WMO-different contribution, CIMO Trust Fund, Regional Office Europe 105’300 105’300 Historical Climate Database Euro-Climhist 90’500 90’500 World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) 298'000 298'000

Total contributions 2’604’500 2’548’500 * Exchange rate: 1 USD = 0.95 CHF Report on the VCP and related co-operation activities in 2014 and outlook 2015

Switzerland continuously operates the following central facilities in favour of the GAW Programme: o World Calibration Centre and Quality Assurance/Science Activity Centre for ozone, carbon monoxide and methane at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (Empa, Dübendorf): Empa provides calibration services, station audits, trainings and operational support of the global GAW network o World Radiation Centre in Davos (PMOD/WRC), including the Infrared Radiation Centre (IRC), World Optical Depth Research and Calibration Centre (WORCC) and the World UV Calibration Centre (WUVC). Switzerland is involved with the World Radiation Centre in Davos, which is jointly financed by the Swiss Federal Government, the Canton of Grisons, and the town of Davos. MeteoSwiss regularly provide capacity-building and consumables to the Nairobi ozone sounding station. Switzerland contributed to the Secretariat of the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) at WMO. The annual contribution for 2015 will be of 105’300 USD. A contribution of the Swiss Confederation amounting to 157’900 USD has been made to the WMO GFCS Trust Fund towards the costs of conference facilities of the Second Meeting of the Intergovernmental Board on Climate Services IBCS-2. Switzerland secures the continuous operation of the following International Data Centres (with funding from GCOS Switzerland): o Historical Climate Database Euro-Climhist o World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) The Swiss voluntary contributions for 2015 will be in approximately the same order as in 2014. The Swiss Confederation continues to finance an array of capacity-building projects in the areas of weather, climate, and water. WMO Voluntary Cooperation Programme – Informal Planning Meeting, Hamburg, April 2015

58 UK VCP report: January-December 2014

1. Country: United Kingdom

2. Overall national contribution in 2014 (estimate in USD) ~$ *1,427,767 *Mainly bilateral activity

3. Overall estimated national contribution in 2015 (in USD) ~$ *1,300,409

Funding overview: The main UK contribution to WMO VCP is funded as part of the UK Public Weather Service (PWS). In addition, we seek to mobilise resources from other donors, where possible, in particular for match funding.

Projects highlights from 2014

Project area – Observations Records of the global climate are essential for monitoring climate change, but maintaining them requires effective observations to be taken all over the world. These observations are also highly valuable for both local and global weather forecasting. While most contributing countries can support surface observations, the upper-air component can be very expensive to maintain. Recognising this is the case for developing country National Met Services (NMSs), UK VCP works in partnership to help to support and maintain a number of remote sites.

 Continued support was provided to GUAN (GCOS Upper Air Network) stations in the Pacific (including Funafuti and Tarawa) and the GSN (GCOS Surface Network) station at Pitcairn, through our ‘Pacific Fund’. Additional support was provided to the GUAN station at Rarotonga,

59 Cook Islands, and with agreement that consumables would be funded by UK VCP up to September 2016. Management of the fund was transferred to SPREP (Secretariat for the Pacific Regional Environmental Programme) in July ‘14 from MetService New Zealand, whilst MetService has continued to provide important technical support.  Through provision of consumables, and the installation of a new Intermet system, UK VCP continued to support the GUAN site at Gough Island, in cooperation with SAWS (South Africa Weather Service).  UK VCP continues to support the GUAN station at St Helena through an MOU with the St.Helena Government. A new MMS (Met. Monitoring System) was installed in March 2014. Observer training was also undertaken.  Support for the GUAN station in the Seychelles continued with the provision of consumables. UK VCP also supported the technical assistance required for major maintenance of the hydrogen generator.  Emergency consumables were donated to the GUAN station at Yerevan, Armenia in May 2014.  UK VCP are in the process of providing assistance (equipment and training) to the upper air station at Gan, Maldives, in partnership with GCOS, to enable this station to get back up and running after a pause in observations.

Project Area – Forecast Delivery Provision of model data and products, and training of meteorologists in their interpretation and use, is another important element in which UK VCP works in partnership with developing country NMSs, in particular to assist with DRR.

 Continued support was provided to the WMO SWFDP (Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project) through the delivery of Global Centre products to the Southern Africa, Eastern Africa and Pacific projects.  Further training (NWP and PWS) assistance was also provided to the annual East Africa SWFDP workshops by a Met office forecaster and PWS Advisor. Training support to the Pacific SWFDP is also planned for 2015.  Through UK VCP we are able to continue to provide forecast model information to African forecasters via our webpages. This includes fields from an Africa ‘cut-out’ of the Global Model (at 25km resolution, which is due to be upgraded to 17km in 2015), a 4km model over the Lake Victoria Region, and an ATD lightning product. In the very near future, model output from the extended 4km model over East Africa (covering the SWFDP-EA countries) will be available on our website (see new model domain below).  We continue to work on an improved website/user interface during 2015 and are aiming to release this in summer 2015 to provide improved, and more interactive, access to our model products.  A ‘cut-out’ from the Global model (25km) for the whole of Africa with ATD lightning data (15 minute) continues to be transmitted as GRIB data via satellite/ EUMETCAST. We are working with EUMETSAT in the hope of transmitting the updated Global model (17km) and 4km East Africa model data via EUMETCAST later this year.  Following a feasibility study looking at the benefits of expanding the current Lake Victoria 4km model to a larger area across the East Africa Region, the expanded model coverage was released in 2014. Further studies to evaluate the model performance in relation to storms over East Africa are planned during 2015.  Work is ongoing in partnership with Kenya Met Service to utilise marine buoy observations in Met Office models, including the 4km model, to help improve modelling, and forecasting information, across Lake Victoria.

60 Expanded domain of the Met Office 4km model over East Africa

(red line). The original Lake Victoria 4km domain is within the blue boundaries.

 The annual Met Office/WMO Aviation Seminar was developed and delivered by two trainers from the Met Office College to 9 delegates at the Regional Training Centre in Doha, Qatar. The training covered AMF (Aeronautical Met. Forecaster) competency requirements and basic assessment techniques, aviation hazards, and competence assessment best practice & QMS. Considering the importance of Aviation services to NMSs, and challenges faced e.g. cost recovery, we will explore further ways to support Aviation provision by NMSs in 2015.

Project area – Climate Data Management The development of a sustainable, flexible and user friendly Climate Data Management System option, whilst also looking to build a user community of support and IT skills, has been the focus of UK VCP support in 2014, in particular through the development of CLIMSOFT.

 The inaugural CLIMSOFT Steering Committee meeting was held in July 2014 in Nairobi, chaired by Zimbabwe, followed by the initial Technical Advisory Group meeting. It discussed, amongst other things, the continuing requirement for the implementation of CDMS in developing country NMSs, the revised WMO Specifications document for CDMS and how it should be considered in the implementation and management of CLIMSOFT, and the roadmap for CLIMSOFT development. It agreed that open source development was the appropriate way forward for CLIMSOFT and set a target of developing the open source version of CLIMSOFT (V4) by mid 2015.  As part of the ongoing developments, UK VCP supported the visit to the UK by the two main CLIMSOFT developers (from Kenya and Zimbabwe) to complete the requirements for V4 before starting development in 2015. This visit was also attended by SASSCAL who are also assisting with the CLIMSOFT project. The developers plan to return to the UK in April 2015 to undertake core development of V4.  Whilst CLIMOSFT v4 is being developed, an updated and interim version (v3.2) was developed by the developers during 2014 with support from UK VCP, including the development of guides and videos (in English, French and Portuguese) for the CLIMSOFT support website.  Support was also provided to Bhutan, Lesotho and Sudan in 2014, in partnership with WMO, to support their climate data management efforts, including visits/training by the CLIMSOFT developers.

61  In conjunction with Reading University and the ‘African Maths Initiative’ in Kenya, work on R products for CLIMSOFT was supported. This work will now be incorporated into the CLIMSOFT developments in 2015.  Continued support was provided to the E-SIAC (Statistics in Applied Climatology course) run by Reading University. This aims to help participants, many from NMSs, to develop skills in the interpretation and application of climate statistics, particularly for agriculture. This included support for updates to the course and participation of a number of students. In total 183 participants took part in the course from over 40 countries (with additional support from WMO) with good feedback.

Project area – Media/Communications UK VCP recognises the importance for an NMS to have the capability to effectively communicate its forecasts to the public and to key stakeholders. This helps NMSs to fulfil one of its main Public Weather Service objectives: to protect the life and property of its citizens. TV presentations can also give the NMS a higher profile and help to raise reputation both with the public and with the government, which in turn can help support further investment.

Presenter training in Uganda 2014

 UK VCP continues to provide support for TV weather presentation delivery by NMSs. This includes support for TV users on our e-learning support website: http://www.met- elearning.org/moodle_v2/. The website provides advice and discussion forums on all aspects of the media studios including the use of “WeatherEye-PC”, the TV graphics package provided free from the Met office to developing country NMSs.  In partnership with the WMO PWS Programme, and Uganda National Meteorological Authority, the media studio in Uganda was extensively refurbished and training delivered in May 2014. This enabled Uganda to resume broadcasting after a break of some years. Again this has been noted at high level: “...the Minister of Information shared our presentation on her face book because of the contents in the Presentation. Also the Ministry of Disaster Preparedness in the Office of the Prime Minister has now requested me to include their email to be receiving daily TV Weather presentations”.  Again in partnership with the WMO PWS Programme, a new TV studio was installed and technical and presenter training provided in Burundi in September 2014. The installation and delivery in Burundi was provided entirely by regional experts from Kenya Met Service and Rwanda working in partnership with UK VCP.

62  UK VCP funded regional experts from Swaziland Meteorological Service to deliver technical and presenter training in Lesotho in June 2014. They also delivered training in Mozambique in September 2014.  UK VCP funded a technical expert from Kenya Met Service to upgrade the media studio in Comoros Island and provide training in November 2014.  Hardware components were replaced at a number of sites including Namibia and Malawi.  The new media studio provided to Dominica in 2013 continued to be supported remotely following installation in 2013. The studio is operating successfully and the met service has confirmed that it receives very good feedback from the government, the public and TV companies. Positive comments such as "Good improvement"..."You all are doing a very good job....keep it up" have been received!  In collaboration with WMO, the Nigerian and Sierra Leonean Meteorological Services, UK VCP is assisting in the provision of TV weather service in Sierra Leone. The presentations will be created in Nigeria, sent to Sierra Leone for text to be added before being passed to the TV company. UK VCP provided a laptop to the PR of Sierra Leone in February 2015 to assist with this work. It is expected that the broadcasts will commence in the very near future.  UK VCP plans to conduct software and presentation training in the Maldives in May 2015. A number of other NMSs who have made requests for studio equipment, training and upgrades will be reviewed, and implemented where possible, during 2015.  As part of a larger DFID funded project on communication of weather and climate services in Kenya, UK VCP is supporting the installation of software to enhance the quality of radio broadcasts of weather and climate information in Kenya. The work began in September 2014 and is ongoing. Depending on the feedback and outcomes of this pilot project, we will potentially look to implement in partnership with other countries, in particular those who have studio equipment in place.  UK VCP has organised the production of 4 short videos and 8 guidance sheets for WMO on how Members can effectively communicate with, and relate to, the media. They cover topics such as interview techniques for radio and TV, communicating uncertainty, handling difficult questions, press briefings, newspaper interviews and communicating climate change.

Project area - Human Resource Development

 Four students (from Ghana, Indonesia, Malaysia and Mauritius) are being sponsored by UK VCP and WMO Education and Training Department (ETR) to undertake the “MSc in Applied Meteorology and Climate with Management” course at Reading University, having started in September 2014. It is recognised that, as well as development of scientific skills, there is also a need to support management training for NMSs, and hence the addition of management into the MSc in the last couple of years.  Six students (from Zambia, Moldova, Gambia, Uganda, Trinidad &Tobago and Bhutan) completed the MSc course in September 2014.  UK VCP continues to run a facilitated, online management training course, “Essentials of Management ” (EOM) each year. The last course finished in June 2014 and was completed successfully by 24 students (from 13 different developing country NMSs). More good feedback was received: “This has really helped to refine my character and way of relating with my colleagues. The course has taught me all the skills I need to be a good manager....”  The current EOM course started in November 2014 and is scheduled to end in April 2015. A record number of 125 applications to participate in this course were received. 54 candidates (from 30 different NMSs) were selected to participate.  In response to the feedback from a number of past EOM courses, UK VCP funded the development of additional training material that specifically focussed on finance and project

63 management. This was released in August 2014 and made available as optional courses for applicants to cover in their own time.  Under a new scheme, the WMO ETR and UK VCP support is enabling two meteorologists from Ethiopia and Tanzania to participate in the Initial Forecasting Course at the Met Office College in Exeter in April 2015. This will cover the basic meteorological knowledge in the WMO Basic Instruction Package for Meteorologists, BIP-M and enable them to gain the fundamental forecasting skills needed by new forecasting staff. Further students will look to be supported in 2015.

Secondments  In partnership with GCOS, UK VCP continues to fund the secondment of Mr Tim Oakley as the GCOS Implementation Manager.  Aileen Semple began her secondment to the WMO Education and Training Programme in May 2014, supported by UK VCP.

64 Activity Report – USA

1. Country United States of America

3. Overall estimated national 2. Overall national contribution in 2014 (estimate in USD) contribution in 2015 (in USD) @ $6.5 million from USNWS programs; @ $4.5 million from USNWS programs; significant (unidentified) significant additional contributions directly additional contributions directly from USAID, USGS, and others from USAID, USGS, and others

4. List of Activities / Projects / Events in 2014 related to contribution 5. Sources of Funding WMO Gender Conference VCP Hispaniola Coastal Inundation (WMO) VCP CARICOF (Caribbean) VCP GFCS Compendium VCP RA IV Task Teams VCP Contributions to three Post-Thorpex Projects South Sudan Capacity Development AMS Support (International Day) ESCAP (Caribbean Upper Air Maintenance) Hurricane Attachment Program LAPS for S Africa (Pilot project for Comms) Tropical Cyclones Workshop COMET Central America River Flood Forecasting All VCP Pacific International Training Desk Chatty Beetle Small Unit Development VLab SPREP

Climate Training Workshop Below: all USAID Provision of International Products and Services Tropical Training Desk Africa Training Desk RANET Hurricane Handbook for Marshall Islands Training and Translations of Flash Flood Materials RapidCast Ground Station Expansion Tsunami Training Central America Flash Flood Training Workshop Vietnam Capacity Development ICIMOD/Himilaya

6. Challenges in Resource Mobilization for your Activities / Projects / 7. Opportunities for Increased Activity Events for your Activities / Projects / Events

USAID funding is stable—even Declining VCP budgets due to lack of new budgets from Congress and growing; federal government finally general spending reductions in the domestic sectors has a budget for next year

8. Opportunities for more cooperation with other members / organisations: How about quarterly virtual meetings among major donors and WMO to discuss progress and plans?

65 66 Ms Mary POWER Mr Jean-Paul GAUDECHOUX Director Senior Programme Manager Office for Resource Mobilization and Office for Resource Mobilization and Development Partnerships Development Partnerships WMO WMO Tel.: +41 22 730 8306 Tel.: +41 22 730 8309 Fax: +41 22 730 8047 Fax: +41 22 730 8047 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Mr Tim OAKLEY Ms Lina SJAAVIK GCOS Implementation Manager Project Officer GCOS Office for Resource Mobilization and WMO Development Partnerships Tel.: +41 22 730 8368/ +44 (0) 775 388 0322 WMO Fax: +41 (0) 22 730 8052 Tel.: +41 22 730 8477 Email: [email protected] Fax: +41 22 730 8047 Email: [email protected]

Mr Jeffrey WILSON Ms Aileen SEMPLE Director Senior Programme Manager Education and Training Education and Training WMO WMO Tel: +41 (0) 22 730 8294 Tel: Tel: +41 (0) 22 730 8063 Fax: +41 (0) 22 730 8052 Fax: +41 (0) 22 730 8052 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Mr. Bruce MULLER Mr. Christoph FELDKÖTTER Senior ID and Production Manager Head of Competence Center Climate Change COMET Deutsche Gesellschaft für Tel: +1 303-497-8478 Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Email: [email protected] Tel: +49 6196 79-1299 Fax +49 6196 7980-1299 Email: [email protected] Dr Gerhard RAPPOLD Consultant for International Policies on Water and Infrastructure Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit Tel : +49 30 338424-543 Fax: +49 30 33842422-543 Email : [email protected]

67 Annex II WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION ______

INFORMAL PLANNING MEETING OF THE VOLUNTARY COOPERATION PROGRAMME

Hamburg, Germany 15-17 April 2015

IPM/2015/Doc. 1 ______

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Original: ENGLISH

Agenda

68 PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

Wednesday, 15 April

10:00 Agenda point 1: Opening of the meeting 10:20 Agenda point 2: Adoption of the agenda and working arrangements for the meeting 10:30 Agenda point 3: Report of the VCP and development projects 2014 11:20 Coffee break 11:40 Agenda point 4.1: Overview of Regional Projects Managed by WMO Sec., GFCS and GCOS 13:00 Lunch break 14:00 Guided tour of DWD Branch Office in Hamburg 15:00 Agenda point 4.6: ETR and global campus as tools for the development of NMHSs 15:50 Coffee break 16:10 Agenda point 4.2: Overview IPM Member Bi-lateral Technical Cooperation Activities 17:30 End of the day

Thursday, 16 April

09:00 Agenda point 4.2 (cont.) 10:40 Coffee break 11:00 Agenda point 4.3: Overview of other stakeholders’ relevant activities / programmes 13:00 Lunch break 14:00 Agenda point 4.4: Consideration of sustainable development goals and processes 14:45 Agenda point 4.2 (cont.) 16:30 Field excursion and dinner (hosted by DWD)

Friday, 17 April

09:00 Agenda point 4.7: NMHSs and climate financing 10:30 Coffee break 10:50 Agenda point 4.9: IPM issues at WMO Cg-17 11:20 Agenda point 4.8: DISCUSSION 12:45 Agenda point 4.10: AOB 13:00 Closure of the meeting

69 IPM/2014/Doc. 2 WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION ______ITEM 2.1

Original: ENGLISH INFORMAL PLANNING MEETING VOLUNTARY COOPERATION PROGRAMME

Deutsche Wetterdienst HAMBURG, GERMANY 15-17 MARCH 2015

VCP TRUST FUND AND VCP COORDINATED ACTIVITIES 2014

(Submitted by the Secretary-General)

Summary and Purpose of Document

This document provides information on Voluntary Cooperation Programme Activities during 2014 including VCP Coordinated Programmes.

ACTION PROPOSED

The meeting is invited to consider the information on VCP Activities during 2014 including VCP Coordinated Programmes as a guide to donor members in planning their support to VCP during 2015 and their technical assistance programmes more broadly.

70 1. Management of the Voluntary Cooperation Programme

1.1 VCP Management Activities in 2014 focused on:

 Enhancing the visibility of capacity development of the VCP Programme, and ensuring the cost-effective and efficient management of the VCP Programme and the timely distribution of the relevant information to Members;  More rapid response to VCP Members’ requests for assistance using the VCP(F), the Emergency Fund or through the VCP Coordinated Programme;  Strengthening working relationship with Scientific Departments and Regional Offices for support of VCP projects;  Resourcing the Fellowship Fund.

1.2 Report of the 2014 Informal Planning Meeting on the VCP and related Technical Cooperation and the Development Partners Round Table

7.2. The Informal Planning Meeting (IPM) of the Voluntary Cooperation Programme (VCP) met in Seoul, Republic of Korea from 25 to 27 March 2014, in parallel with the 26th Session of the Executive Council Panel on Education and Training (EC Panel). The IPM was hosted by the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA). The meeting was chaired by Mr Francisco (Paco) Espejo (AEMET) and attended by representatives of Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Republic of Korea, Russia, Spain, United Kingdom, United States of America and the VCP and GCOS Secretariat. Other invited participants included the Asian Centre for Disaster Preparedness (ADPC), the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Climate Centre (APCC), Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), The Green Climate Fund (GCF) and UNESCAP.

The IPM members shared information on a broad range of development assistance being provided through bi-lateral means by Donor Members to improve the delivery of climate, weather and water related service in developing country member states. The presentations included the efforts of Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Republic of Korea, Russia, Spain, United Kingdom and United States of America.

The discussions that followed the presentations on WMO major regional development projects and IPM Member bilateral projects highlighted the following: i) the need for alignment of WMO fellowship programmes with those of IPM Members, with the aim to develop a country- oriented approach and avoid duplication and isolation; ii) the growing interest by IPM Members and development partners about hydro meteorological investments is to be leveraged in order to provide greater support to high-impact multi-country projects; iii) the need for enhanced collaboration for project implementation and coordination; and iv) the establishment by WMO Secretariat of project structures through the Project Management Board and the Project Coordination Unit together with the fast-track recruitment process of project staff and improvement of procurement procedures, constitute a response to the growing development project portfolio.

2 WMO Voluntary Cooperation Programme – Activities supported in 2013

In 2014, the VCP Secretariat received eleven requests for support (Appendix 1) from nine countries. Of these five were supported through the VCP-F as they fitted within the VCP-F guidelines. From the remaining requests, one was covered through another WMO Development

71 programme (GFCS: Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in Africa), and four were circulated directly among the potential donors and IPM members through VCP (ES) Coordinated process. Of those circulated two projects will be supported through VCP Coordinated. Overall, 70 % of all new requests were given a positive response. The unsupported projects were outside the financial frame of WMO VCP projects.

For an overview of on-going projects, outstanding requests and links to partners and donors, please check our website at http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/dra/vcp/on-going.php

2.1 VCP (F) Supported Activities

The following projects were supported through the VCP-F in 2014:

Expert Missions and services (predominantly Cost Recovery and Business Plan development)  Develop a proposal on a new institutional structure for the NMHS - Paraguay  Fact finding Mission for a Strategic Plan for the Fiji Meteorological Service (Initiated in 2014, completion in 2015)  Strategic Plan for the Meteorological Services of the Meteorological Services of the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources – Trinidad and Tobago (Initiated in 2014, completion 2015)  Drafting a Meteorology Bill – Tuvalu  Consultancy to develop a Strategic Plan for the development of the meteorological services in Djibouti.  Consultancy to develop a Strategic Plan for the development of the meteorological services in S Sudan

VCP Equipment  EUMETSAT Dawbee Satellite Receiving Station – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Banja Luka

In summary, the trend from 2013 when a large percentage of the requests were centred on supporting NMHSs in developing countries to develop strategies for long term hydro meteorological development, including cost recovery schemes and QMS as well as training programmes continues. A trend towards more and more NMHSs requesting support for 3-5 year Business Plans and cost recovery has been observed. This is positive sign for sustainability and NMHS longer term development. The number of VCP requests received in 2014 is lower than previous years; however, several requests that would earlier be covered by VCP are now covered by national and regional development projects for NMHS.

Education and Fellowship Activities See section 2.8

2.2 VCP- F Expenditure for 2014

Full details on VCP-F expenditure for 2014 are provided in Appendix 2 and summarized in Table 1 below.

Table 1 - VCP (F) Activities Supported in 2013 (incl. requisitions) USD

1 Expert services 84,929

72 2 Fellowships & Training activities 97,799 3 VCP Spares and Shipping of Equipment 15,822 4 Group Training Activities 13,559 5 Project Development and Related Activities 7,049 TOTAL 219,158

In 2014, an amount of 219,158 USD was spent from the VCP (F), with most of the expenditure provided to fellowship and training activities (44%) and expert services (38%).

VCP-F Expenditure Trends

The trend of VCP (F) expenditure over the recent years shows a shift of focus with an increased investment on soft activities related to fellowship and training, project development and expert services.

Table 2 indicates VCP-F expenditure trends over the period 2009 to 2013.

Table - 2 VCP(F) Expenditure 2009-2013 (USD)

Activity Area 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Project Development Activities 4,236 2,422 79,475 7,049 VCP spares/shipping/equipment 64,255 39,076 52,908 32,584 15,822 Expert services 52,407 61,819 52,541 38,040 84,929 Short-term fellowships 62,928 94,930 92,097 43,713 Group Training Activities 27,775 13,559 Upper-air stations GCOS Stations Support to CDM / DARE 62,774 7,485 7,881 Emergency Disaster Assistance* 218,741 Internet capabilities 11,815 9,763 20,769 Long-term fellowships 4,233 29,948 13,377 Support to LDCs Public Weather Services 25,276 42,495 Fellowships & Training activities 33,562 39,832 105,474 155,606 97,799 VCP Management 29,006 10,979 Total 569,233 314,122 263,325 378,824 219,158

*Additional to use of Emergency Assistance Fund

2.3 VCP (ES) Coordinated

In 2014, an LoA was signed between WMO and UK Met Office regarding the development of the fourth version of CLIMSOFT. Further UKMO – WMO collaboration under Public Weather Services refurbished the media studio in Uganda and installed a new TV studio in Burundi.

Ongoing projects from 2013 include the KMA support to the NMHS of Rwanda, Burundi, Lao and Uzbekistan mainly focused on climate data restoration and communication satellite systems.

73 GCOS

The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)’s Support to VCP was focused on ensuring that all users have access to the climate observations, data records and information which they require to address pressing climate-related concerns. GCOS users include individuals, national and international organizations, institutions and agencies. Recent initiatives to revitalize the GCOS upper-air and surface networks (GUAN & GSN) and to improve the overall performance of these important baseline networks since last year include direct renovation projects, the activities of the CBS (Commission for Basic Systems) Lead Centers for GCOS, and various training workshops. Some key points:

 As a continuation of the support from 2013, the operations of the GUAN station at Yerevan, Armenia have been provided by Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA). This support will continue in 2015.

 On-going support and a technical visit for the upgrade of the Climate Stations and centralized processing in Madagascar.

 The planned support for 2015 through GCOS amounts to USD 85,000 and includes the continuation of the support to the GUAN Station in Armenia (JMA); A consultant based in Zimbabwe, working on GCM projects in the region, issues with climate data and specific

2.4 Members Related Technical Cooperation Activities

See IPM/2014/Doc. 3 for a full inventory of Members bi-lateral cooperation activities.

2.5 Major Development Projects managed by WMO Secretariat

See IPM/2014/Doc. 4 for a full inventory of major projects managed by the WMO Secretariat.

2.6 WMO Voluntary Cooperation Programme – Total 2014 Financial Contributions

The total Members’ contributions to the WMO Voluntary Co-operation Programme in 2014 are shown in Table 3 below in terms of VCP (ES) and VCP (F) and reported bi-lateral support.

In 2014, 4 Members (China, Korea, Maldives and Mauritius) made cash contributions to the VCP Fund (VCP(F)), amounting to approximately USD 42,500 while USD 413,341 and equivalent support was provided to VCP Coordinated Projects through WMO; some USD 31,935,871 equivalent through bi-lateral arrangements, giving a total investment of USD 32,391,7121. Reported bi-lateral figures are of course very indicative. There are some difficulties with representing “Reported” figures and it is likely that not all IPM members have reported similar activities under this section.

2.7 Trends in Contributions to WMO VCP Programme

The trends in contributions to VCP (F) over the past six years show a decrease in the financial support of the VCP (F) and of VCP (ES) through the WMO (Table 4 below).

1 This does not represent full value of WMO inter-member cooperation support but only as reported to WMO Secretariat by members- 74 Overall in any given year, four to five countries account for over 90% of the VCP-Funds contribution as illustrated in Table 5 below. This poses the risk of over-reliance on a small number of donors, which may impact on overall delivery objectives for VCP. An increased participation from other countries to diversify the base of the programme is highly desirable.

However, the decrease in contributions to the VCP (F) is partially compensated by the very positive move towards support by members for major development programmes and a generally increasing trend in other technical cooperation trust funds. WMO overall budget from voluntary contributions (extra-budgetary funding) for 2014 accounts for approximately 40% of total annual budget. This shows the strong commitment from WMO Members to provide extra-budgetary funding for specific projects and programmes. But this also comes with challenges related to the uncertainty to mobilize voluntary contributions over time and difficulties to hire project staff.

However, the VCP TF is a very important rapid response mechanism and the Secretariat will make significant effort for replenishment of the VCP TF in 2015 and beyond and would encourage al IPM members to consider contributing.

Table 3 - Total VCP Contributions in 2014 (USD)

Bi-Lateral VCP(F) VCP(ES) As Reported Total Member

Equipment

and Services

through WMO Australia Canada 10,289,243 10,289,243 China 10,000 1,755,245 1,765,245 Hong Kong 27,200 27,200 Finland 1,814,370 1,814,370 France 1,788,000 1,788,000 Germany 33,000 2,570,640 2,603,640 Indonesia Japan 380,341 380,341 Maldives 1,000 1,000 Mauritius 1,500 1,500 Myanmar New Zealand 220,000 220,000 Norway 800,000 800,000 Republic of Korea 30,000 3,726,000 3,756,000 Russia Spain 412,906 412,906 Switzerland 2,604,500 2,604,500 UK 1,427,767 1,427,767 USA 4,500,000 4,500,000 Total 42,500 413,341 31,935,871 32,391,712

75 Table 4: Total investment (VCP (F&ES)) 2010 - 2014

2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Donor VCP(F) VCP(ES) Total VCP(F) VCP(F) Total VCP(F) VCP(ES) Total VCP(F) VCP(ES) Total VCP(F) VCP(ES) Total Member Equipment Equipment Equipment Equipment Equipment & Services & Services & Services & Services & Services through through through through through WMO WMO WMO WMO WMO

Australia 50,000 50,000 52,022 52,022 51,774 51,774 41,731 41,731 Canada China 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 145,000 155,000 10,000 107,754 117,754 10,000 27,000 37,000 Finland 263,750 263,750 150,000 150,000 France 24,700 24,700 Germany 33,000 33,000 41,100 41,100 38,700 38,700 40,800 40,800 Ireland Japan 380,341 380,341 278,050 278,050 50,000 524,472 574,472 54,230 608,663 662,893 128,000 514,300 642,300

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Maldives 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 Mauritius 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,500 1,674 1,674 1,674 1,674 1,537 1,537 Myanmar 375 375 486 486 Netherlands 133,000 133,000 270,000 270,000 133,620 133,620 Norway Pakistan

Republic of Korea 30,000 30,000 31,731 1,310,000 1,361,731 30,000 335,000 365,000 30,000 30,000 30,000 30,000

Russian Federation 25,812 25,812 40,000 40,000 Spain 53,448 53,448 Switzerland 200,000 200,000 53,448 53,448 UK 38,701 38,701 USA 697,087 697,087 410,867 410,867 812,606 812,606 Total 42,500 413,341 455,841 119,306 1,629,150 1,768,456 144,696 1,965,309 2,174,517 148,678 1,788,084 1,936,762 212,754 1,673,123 1,885,877 Table 5: Bi-lateral VCP Support 2011 - 2014 (USD)

Amount listed includes contributions for Equipment & Services and Fellowships & Training and Development Projects, as reported by the members

Member 2011 2012 2013 2014

Argentina 69,214 8,300 Australia 7,559,226 5,416,978 8,932,000 Canada 546,700 4,397,500 **1,323,000 10,289,243 China 2,181,030 1,686,511 10,000 1,765,245 Hong Kong 35,000 30,800 27,500 27,200 Finland 2,250,000 1,859,925 1,967,350 1,814,370 France 1,054,535 2,086,000 2,417,000 1,788,000 Germany 1,777,911 3,314,800 3,542,100 2,570,640 Indonesia 70,945 Japan 335,000 335,000 335,000 Unknown Maldives 1,000 1,000 1,000 1,000 New Zealand 1,906,817 333,000 223,500 220,000 Norway 2,500,000 2,500,000 ++ 800,000++ Republic of Korea 1,655,094 1,320,094 6,210,731 3,726,000 Russia 318,043 Spain 2,600,000 300,000 596,995 412,906 Switzerland 188,500 2,393,200 2,615,500 2,604,500 UK 1,448,619.10 1,718,126 1,427,687 1,427,767 USA 1,679,133 1,392,910 &&1,986,000 4,500,000

Total 24,952,779 28,830,089 31,860,331 31,935,871  * *not including 12.6M CAD Agreements (Haiti and GFCS)  ++ not including 20M GFCS Projects  && not including 10M USD DRR 77 2.8 Education and Training Fellowship Activities

The WMO fellowship programme continues to evolve in order to better meet the changing needs of WMO Members. Over the last five years new partnerships have been created, existing partnerships strengthened, award processes streamlined, fellowship opportunities better aligned with the WMO High priority areas and more attention given to support for the fellows before, during and after they undertake the fellowship. In addition, new funding sources have been developed as a result of actions from the Office for Resource Mobilization and Development Partnership.

2.8.1 VCP-F

VCP(F) funds continue to be used to support very short-term training activities offered by WMO RTCs and Member countries in areas such as WMO Information System (WIS), tropical cyclones, agricultural meteorology, aeronautical meteorology, climate analysis and applications, numerical weather prediction, weather modification, and climate prediction. In 2014, 64 participants from 40 countries were supported to attend 26 courses and workshops.

VCP (F) funds were also used to assist with the development of a publication dealing with Conceptual Models of Southern Hemisphere Weather Systems. This project was carried out in conjunction with EUMETSAT and used the WMO Virtual Laboratory Centres of Excellence for the work. EUR 20,000 was provided by VCP (F), EUMETSAT contributed EUR 10,000 to cover a contract project manager and EUMETSAT also provided at least EUR 10,000 in-kind contribution. The funds were used to support the developments costs of the CoEs. The project output uses the established SATMANU format from EUMETSAT and provides examples of different weather systems, from a satellite viewpoint, dynamic meteorology perspective plus weather descriptions. The publication is nearly ready to go online. A phase II of this project to deal with further examples is under consideration.

2.8.2 US VCP Training Desks

During 2014 the arrangements through the USA VCP Fund enabled WMO to support a total of 18 new fellowships from 17 countries; the total amount to cover the students was of USD 128,622.

Cost Beneficiary No. FUND HOST_COUNTRY (CHF) USA Angola 1 9511 United States VCP USA Angola 1 7738 United States VCP USA Argentina 1 6150 United States VCP USA Brasil 1 6121 United States VCP USA Chad 1 6879 United States VCP USA Chile 1 6533 United States VCP USA Congo 1 8718 Malta VCP USA Costa Rica 1 6157 United States VCP 79

Cote d’Ivoire 1 8719 VCP United Kingdom USA Dominican Republic 1 6497 United States VCP USA El Salvador 1 6030 United States VCP USA Ethiopia 1 8083 United States VCP USA Ghana 1 7606 United States VCP USA Kenya 1 8459 United States VCP USA Mali 1 8294 United States VCP USA Mexico 1 4426 United States VCP USA Peru 1 6028 United States VCP USA St Lucia 1 6673 United States VCP

In promoting research and training in meteorology, WMO has accorded a high level of importance to education and training through its fellowship scheme. The WMO Regular Budget has been the primary source of fellowship funds but these funds are complemented by considerable in-kind resources from our partners. Partner contributions are typically waiver or reduction of tuition fees and/or other support for the fellows through accommodation, work experience etc. Through a concerted effort to reach out to partners, and as a result of increased confidence in the work of WMO, it has been possible to leverage more bilateral resources for funding of fellowships activities in least developed and developing countries. The support not only increases the number of fellowships awarded, but very importantly contributes to the diversity of courses on offer, and promotes gender equality. Thus, there is a need of enhancing WMO’s support to those countries in need, especially the least developed ones.

To enhance the delivery of WMO fellowships activities, ETR Office continues to:

● Further develop and consolidate cooperation with partners, especially with the aim of rendering more support to least developed and developing countries;

● Further develop and implement group training/fellowship activities to enhance expertise in WMO High Priority areas;

● Investigate options for targeting short term fellowships in on-the-job training to selected NMHS experts for cost-effective and sustainable development of capacity at national level;

● Further streamline the fellowship process to ensure efficiency and transparency in the management of the programme, and conformity with the WMO strategies for Service Delivery and Capacity Development;

● Engage current and former fellows to develop a network among meteorological professionals that improves the visibility of the WMO fellowship programme, helps them keep abreast of international issues of relevance to their duties and could lead to longer term support for the programme.

2.8.3 Global Campus

The purpose of the WMO Global Campus is to provide a framework or mechanism for the WMO RTCs and WMO affiliated institutions involved in providing education and training support to Members to learn from each other, coordinate courses and training resources and collaborate to develop and deliver courses in multiple languages for Members. The concept of a WMO Global Campus was first discussed at the WMO Education and Training Symposium in Toulouse in September 2013 and was included in the recommendations of an EC Panel of Experts on Education and Training task force looking at the future roles and operations of WMO RTCs in 2014. The EC Panel of Experts on Education and Training and the steering committee it has formed on the feasibility study have worked hard to fully involve the WMO education and training community in the development of the WMO Global Campus proposal. The feasibility study is reaching out to new partners whose input could complement those provided by institutions such as RTCs and support WMO Members and their NMHSs in developing further capability in the high priority areas for the 2016–2019 financial period.

In October the WMO Global Campus concept was further elaborated on by more than 20 representatives in the WMO education and training community (RTC Directors, heads of national training institutions and representatives from WMO partner organisations such as EUMETSAT, EUMETNET and UNESCO-IOC) meeting in Geneva. More recently it has been the focus of a meeting of RTC Directors (Langen, Germany, March 2015). The outcomes from the October 2014 meeting included support to the feasibility study and, following an active and lengthy debate, an endorsement of the name WMO Global Campus. In March 2015 the RTC Directors discussed the concept at length, identifying potential benefits for the Members and challenges in implementing the concept. The RTC Directors made suggestions to the WMO Global Campus steering committee regarding the desirable features for a phase one implementation and prioritised the challenges that the WMO Global Campus steering committee should investigate in order to deliver the desired features for phase one which could occur in the financial period following Cg-18 in 2019. The WMO Global Campus steering committee also agreed on a set of guiding principles for involvement of WMO RTCs and WMO affiliated institutions in the WMO Global Campus. The EC Panel of Experts on Education and Training will further discuss the guiding principles at their next session in March 2016.

The WMO Global Campus steering committee subsequently endorsed the suggestions from the RTC Directors regarding the desirable features for a phase one implementation of the WMO Global Campus and these recommendations were subsequently accepted by the Chair of the EC Panel of Experts on Education and Training. The WMO Global Campus steering committee have recommended the development of three demonstration activities prior to EC-70 in 2018 as part of the extension of the feasibility study: a searchable online calendar that bring together the education and training activities offered by WMO RTCs and WMO affiliated institutions to assist Members in identifying education and training opportunities for the staff of their NMHSs; further development and delivery of teaching and learning resources that would result in a course or courses supporting aeronautical meteorological personnel competencies in multiple languages suitable for face-to-face and/or online delivery; and, commence the development of a course or courses supporting climate services in multiple languages suitable for face-to-face and / or online delivery. The climate services course or courses, initially focusing on climate and adaptation issues would build upon the

80 81 lessons learnt from the existing collaborative developments, further enhancement of the aeronautical meteorological course(s) and outcomes from the Commission for Climatology regarding competencies for personnel involved in the provision of climate services. The WMO Global Campus steering committee anticipated that these activities would be funded through focussing of activities already planned under the WMO regular budget and supplemented by voluntary resources where possible.

Whilst the feasibility study was already showing positive benefit for WMO and its Members, further work was needed before the introduction of a WMO Global Campus could be formally considered. A number of Members have contributed to the feasibility study, particularly the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for the contribution of a seconded officer to support this work. Congress will be requested to extend the feasibility study to Cg-18 in 2019. It is expected that Congress will request that progress on the feasibility study be monitored and reviewed by the Executive Council with the view of a fully developed proposal being considered at the Eighteenth World Meteorological Congress in 2019.

Appendixes

Appendix 1: VCP (F) requests received in 2013

Appendix 2: VCP (F) Expenditure in 2013

81 Appendix 1: VCP (F) requests received in 2013

COUNTRY PROJECT TITLE STATUS DONOR Bosnia and EUMETSAT DAWBEE Satellite Receiving Station Ongoing VCP (F) Herzegovina (Banja Luka) Bosnia and Forecaster Workstation Synergie Request Herzegovina Burundi Training Presentation Skills for TV Presentations Completed Norway through GFCS Adaptation and DRR in Africa Cameroon Meteorological Library Request France Fiji Fact-Finding Mission for a Strategic Plan for the Fiji Meteorological Service Ongoing VCP (F)

Guinea-Bissau Acquisition of Messir Multimedia System Request Liberia Request for Technical Assistance from WMO for the Implementation of Liberia EWS Project Outside VCP Paraguay Expert Services – Develop a Proposal on New Institutional Structure for the NMHS Completed VCP (F)

Trinidad and Tobago Strategic Plan for the Meteorological Services of the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources Ongoing VCP (F) Tuvalu Strategy Implementation Plan Request

Tuvalu Drafting a Meteorology Bill Ongoing WMO Voluntary Cooperation Programme – Informal Planning Meeting 2015

Appendix 2: VCP (F) Expenditure in 2014

VCP (F) Activities Supported in 2014 (not including requisitions) USD 1 Expert Services Expert Mission to Botswana for Development of Cost Recovery Plan 20,221

Expert Mission to Guyana to Develop Long-Term Strategic Plan 2,212 Expert Mission to the Regional Training Workshop on Weather Radar Basis & Routine Maintenance and Real-Time Radar Rainfall Estimation and Forecasting (Dr. Ishihara) 4,302

Expert Mission to Botswana for Workshop to Review the Draft Report 5,706 Expert Mission to Djibouti for Improvement of Service Delivery and Overall Operations at the Djibouti National Meteorological Agency 13,248 Implementation of Quality Management Systems based on ISO 9001:2008 for Ghana Meteorological Agency 29,330

Expert Services to develop New Institutional structures for the NMHS of Paraguay 9,575 Others 335 Total Expert Services 84,929

2 Project Development

Strategic Project Development South Sudan 7,049

Total Project Development 7,049

3 Fellowships and Training Activities NARANJO DIAZ_JUAN DIEGO MR, Costa Rica (expert) -January 2014 WRF Tutorial, 23-31 January 2014, Boulder USA 3,464 NAIDU, Ashwindra, Mr - Aviation Training of Staff in TAF Preparation, Honiara, Solomon Islands, 13-20 Jan 2014 - individual mission upon VCP Request 4,959 NAIDU, Ashwindra, Mr, Expert - in junction with requisition 20115069 -Aviation Training of Staff in TAF Preparation, Honiara, Solomon Islands, 13-20 Jan 2014 - individual mission 1,116 Hernan Matias CIMINARI MR (Argentina) - Weather Simulators for Instruction and Assessment Workshop, 3-7 February 2014, DWD Langen, Germany (IND) 1,920 Enrique AGUILAR MR (Spain) - Third Edition of 'Climatology a Foundation for Climate Services to be held in Toulouse from 24-26 March 2014 (IND) 1,047 Mr Khanmany KHOUNPHONH, Lao PDR, Climatology, foundation for climate services, Météo France, Toulouse, France, 17-28 March 2014 IND 1,990 Mrs Yuwandee SUWANMANEE, Thailand, Climatology, foundation for climate services, Météo France, Toulouse, France, 17-28 March 2014 IND 1,193 W. S. R. LIKEBA LOUAMBA, Mr, Republique du Congo, Climatology, foundation for climate services, Météo France, Toulouse, France, 17-28 March 2014 IND 1,422 Kairi VINT, Mrs, Estonia, Climatology, foundation for climate services, Météo France, Toulouse, France, 17-28 March 2014 IND 566

83 WMO Voluntary Cooperation Programme – Informal Planning Meeting 2015

Maimuna U. Borno, Mrs, Nigeria, Climatology, foundation for climate services, Météo France, Toulouse, France, 17-28 March 2014 IND 1,221 TRAORE/OULEMATOU MRS, MALI, Climatology, foundation for climate services, Météo France, Toulouse, France, 17-28 March 2014 IND 1,428 Mr Juan Antonio RIVERA, Argentina, WCRP LAC Conference, Montevideo, Uruguay, 17-21 March 2014, WCRP – MF 70353 899 HOVHANNISYAN/DIANA MS, Armenia, Climatology, foundation for climate services, Météo France, Toulouse, France, 17-28 March 2014 IND 1,050 KRETOVA/ZOIA MS, Kirghystan, Climatology, foundation for climate services, Météo France, Toulouse, France, 17-28 March 2014 IND 668 Ms Vanessa Pantano, Argentina, WCRP LAC Conference, Montevideo, Uruguay, 17-21 March 2014, WCRP – MF 70353 870 Artis Kabuci, Mr, Latvia, Climatology, foundation for climate services, Météo France, Toulouse, France, 17-28 March 2014 IND 574 ALY OMAR/AHMED ATTIA MR, Egypt , Climatology, foundation for climate services, Météo France, Toulouse, France, 17-28 March 2014 IND 691 NURMAYATI/TRI MS, Indonesia, Climatology, foundation for climate services, Météo France, Toulouse, France, 17-28 March 2014 IND 1,569 Mr S. Jitarerat,Thailand, 6th International Workshop on Verification Methods (New Delhi, India from 13 to 19 March 2014) Tutorial Session on Verification Methods (13-15 March 2014) and Science Meeting (17-19 March 2014) RESAREIWWR- MF 40038 1,546 ADAM/IBRAHIM MOHAMMED HUSSEIN MR , Sudan, Climatology, foundation for climate services, Météo France, Toulouse, France, 17-28 March 2014 IND 886 Mr Antonio JOYETTE, Barbados , WCRP LAC Conference, Montevideo, Uruguay, 17-21 March 2014, WCRP – MF 70353 2,324 Mr Marcelo SCHNEIDER, Brazil, WCRP LAC Conference, Montevideo, Uruguay, 17-21 March 2014, WCRP – MF 70353 1,106 Mr. Stanley Kinyua (Kenya) - international training course on “Short-term Climate Prediction Methods” in Beijing, China, from 14 to 25 April 2014 (IND) 996 LEV/NADEJDA MS (Uzbekistan) - International training course on “Agrometeorology” in Nanjing, China, from 19 to 30 September 2014.(IND) 1,152 SALETRERO Netherlen (Ms) (Philippines) - International training course on “Thunderstorms and Severe Convection Nowcasting", Beijing, China, 13-23 May 2014 987 MWANGI Mercy Wanjiru (Ms) (Kenya) - International training course on “Thunderstorms and Severe Convection Nowcasting", Beijing, China, 13-23 May 2014 990 RASHEED Ahmed (Maldives) - International training course on “Tropical Cyclone Forecast", Nanjing, China, 15-26 May 2014 1,857 SAMU-WAMBOTE Dieu Merci (Congo, DR) - International training course on “Thunderstorms and Severe Convection Nowcasting", Beijing, China, 13-23 May 2014 349 MASAMBAYA NDUKWE Fredrick (Kenya) - International training course on “Tropical Cyclone Forecaste", Nanjing, China, 15-26 May 2014 1,383 MASAMBAYA NDUKWE Fredrick (Kenya) - International training course on “Tropical Cyclone Forecaste", Nanjing, China, 15-26 May 2014 1,858 OCHIENG, Phillip Okello (Mr, nominated expert) - "Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Jump-Start Workshop” and “CAP Implementation Workshop”, Negombo, Sri Lanka, 16 and 17-18 June 2014; Individual Travel; Ref.: App. MF 40539/2014 1,761 KHAN, Azmat Hayat (Mr, nominated expert) - "Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Jump-Start Workshop” and “CAP Implementation Workshop”, Negombo, Sri Lanka, 16 and 17-18 June 2014; Individual Travel; Ref.: App. MF 40539/2014 1,502 ABDELBAKY AWIS/HOSAM, Egypt (Mr, nominated expert) - international training course on "climate change impacts on Agricultural systems in Africa" which will be held in Florence, Italy from 9 to 13 June 2014 1,727

SHANAAH/HASSAN MOHAMMAD ALI (Mr, nominated expert) - international training course on "climate change impacts on Agricultural systems in Africa" which will be held in Florence, Italy from 9 to 13 June 2014 1,886 ARMOUSH/AMER MOUSSA JODEH, Jordan (Mr, nominated expert) - International Training Course on Aeronautical Meteorology Services, Beijing, China, 16 to 27 June 2014 1,283 SALAH/MOHAMMAD MR, Palestine (nominated expert) -International Training Course on “Use of Meteorological Instruments”, from 5 to 16 June 2014, Nanjing, China 1,299 TOSHPULATOV_KHURSHID (Mr), Uzbekistan (nominated expert) -International Training Course on “Use of Meteorological Instruments”, from 5 to 16 June 2014, Nanjing, China 1,387 TOORUA, Ueneta (Mr, nominated expert) - "Lead Auditor Training”, Melbourne, Australia, 2-6 June 2014; Individual Travel; Ref.: App. MF 40592/2014; Ref.: Requisition: 20117559 – DRA 4,868 SUNTAXI UMATAMBO_EDGAR SANTIAGO MR, Ecuador (nominated expert) -International Training Course on “Use of Meteorological Instruments”, from 5 to 16 June 2014, Nanjing, China 2,884 CIZMIC_INES MRS, Bosnia and Herzegovina (nominated expert) the advanced workshop on “Climate Change and Agriculture”, to be held from 9 to 19 June 2014 by RTC Bet-Degan, in Shefayim, Israel 585 TALCHABHADEL_ROCKY MR, Nepal (expert)_ World Weather Open Science Conference (MONTREAL, Canada, 14-23 August 2014) 1,697 SAL/NDEYE AMY MRS, Senegal (expert)_International training course on “Climate change impacts on agricultural systems in Africa”, CNR-IBIMET, Florence, Italy, 9 – 13 June 2014 2,135 ELHAJ AHMED ALAWAD/ENTSAR MRS, Sudan (nominated expert) - International Training Course on Aeronautical Meteorology Services, Beijing, China, 16 to 27 June 2014 1,168 KHAMPHOUMY/PHAPANY MR , Lao (nominated expert) -International Training Course on “Use of Meteorological Instruments”, from 5 to 16 June 2014, Nanjing, China 648 Mr El Hou, Morocco (nominated expert) - IOC/IODE African summer school, Ghana, 9-13 June 2014 1,217 (Staff) - TOORUA, Ueneta (Mr, nominated expert) - "Lead Auditor Training”, Melbourne, Australia, 2-6 June 2014; Individual Travel; Ref.: App. MF 40592/2014; Ref.: Requisition: 20117559 - DRA 1,597 MENDES/CHERNOS LUIS MR, Guinea Bissau (nominated expert) the advanced workshop on “Climate Change and Agriculture”, to be held from 9 to 19 June 2014 by RTC Bet-Degan, in Shefayim, Israel 1,745 SHULGINA/NATALYA MS , Uzbekistan (nominated expert) the advanced workshop on “Climate Change and Agriculture”, to be held from 9 to 19 June 2014 by RTC Bet-Degan, in Shefayim, Israel 1,141 SYED/ABUL HASANAT MR , Bangladesh (nominated expert) - International Training Course on Aeronautical Meteorology Services, Beijing, China, 16 to 27 June 2014 807 Mr El Hou, Morocco (nominated expert) - IOC/IODE African summer school, Ghana, 9-13 June 2014 943 Mr Patrick MUSA, Sierra Leone (nominated expert)_ the advanced workshop on “Climate Change and Agriculture”, to be held from 9 to 19 June 2014 by RTC Bet-Degan, in Shefayim, Israel 4,438 Mr PUNZALAN Bernard, Philippines (nominated expert)_ the advanced workshop on “Climate Change and Agriculture”, to be held from 9 to 19 June 2014 by RTC Bet-Degan, in Shefayim, Israel 2,206 TATISHVILI/MARIKA MRS, Georgia (nominated expert)_ the advanced workshop on “Climate Change and Agriculture”, to be held from 9 to 19 June 2014 by RTC Bet-Degan, in Shefayim, Israel 522 NIMA/TSHERING Mr, Bhutan (nominated expert) - International Training Course on Aeronautical Meteorology Services, Beijing, China, 16 to 27 June 2014 869 SAL/NDEYE AMY MRS, Senegal (expert)_International training course on “Climate change impacts on agricultural systems in Africa”, CNR-IBIMET, Florence, Italy, 9 – 13 June 2014 1,100 Mr Ignace MFUTILA MUTEBA, DR Congo (nominated expert) - International Training Course on Aeronautical Meteorology Services, Beijing, China, 16 to 27 June 2014 1,838 LEV/NADEJDA MS (Uzbekistan) - International training course on “Agrometeorology” in Nanjing, China, from 19 to 30 September 2014.(IND) 552 Mr Asif HUSSAIN, Pakistan (nominated expert) - Training Course on WIS and Tehran GISC, 641

Tehran, Iran 4-6 August 2014 Mr Jeanlouis EBENGOBAKELE, DRCongo (nominated expert) - Workshop on "Techniques et organisation de la prévision ", Toulouse, France, 8-12 Septembre 2014 2,500 Mr Jainendra YADAV - Training Course on WIS and Tehran GISC, Tehran, Iran 4-6 August 2014 1,053 Mr Mohamed ElL HOU(expert) To attend the 2nd Workshop of African Summer School on Application for Ocean & Coastal Data, Nairobi, 18-22 Aug 2014 3,321 Mr Ho Rim HA, DPR Korea (nominated expert) - Seminar on meteorological disaster management for officials from developing countries, Beijing, China, 15-26 September 2014 535 Mr Hyon Min KIM, DPR Korea (nominated expert) - Seminar on meteorological disaster management for officials from developing countries, Beijing, China, 15-26 September 2014 535 Mr Hyon U KIM, DPR Korea (nominated expert) - International training course on agrometeorology, Nanjing, China, 19-30 September 2014 747 Mr SungChol NAM, DPR Korea (nominated expert) - International training course on agrometeorology, Nanjing, China, 19-30 September 2014 747 Mr Anvarsho DORGAEV , Tajikistan (nominated expert) - Seminar on meteorological disaster management for officials from developing countries, Beijing, China, 15-26 September 2014 958 Mr Abdel Haleem ALQASRAWI, Palestine (nominated expert) - International training course on agrometeorology, Nanjing, China, 19-30 September 2014 1,742 Mr Hamadache Rafik, Algeria (Expert), the International Training Course on Seasonal Forecasts for Agriculture in the Mediterranean, Florence, 22-26 September 2014 1,649 Mr Hamidou COULIBALY , Mauritania (Expert), the International Training Course on Seasonal Forecasts for Agriculture in the Mediterranean, Florence, 22-26 September 2014 3,421 Mrs Chansouk SIOUDOM , Lao (nominated expert) - International training course on agrometeorology, Nanjing, China, 19-30 September 2014 1,214 Ms. Emmah Mwangi, 3 months Kenya 182 Ms Siri Seetha RUWANPATHIRANA (Sri Lanka), (PRIOR YEAR F2F13) 2,495 Ms Chenai SITHOLE, 2 years, Zimbabwe, (PRIOR YEAR 3FD59) 1,740 SHAREEF, Ali Mr - To attend the 41st session of the WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones (PTC-41), Dhaka-Bangladesh, 2 to 6 March 2014 1,843 ZIN AUNG, Mr - To attend the 41st session of the WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclones (PTC- 41), Dhaka-Bangladesh, 2 to 6 March 2014 - individual request 1,813 HINGANO, Reginald Phillip (Mr, nominated expert) - "RA V - SW Pacific Lead (Quality) Auditor Training Workshop", Nadi, Fiji, 28 April 2014 - 2 May 2014 - Approved MF 40592/2014 1,945 TOORUA, Ueneta (Mr, nominated expert) - "RA V - SW Pacific Lead (Quality) Auditor Training Workshop", Nadi, Fiji, 28 April 2014 - 2 May 2014 - Approved MF 40592/2014 2,430 SAMMY, Solomon (Mr, nominated expert) - "RA V - SW Pacific Lead (Quality) Auditor Training Workshop", Nadi, Fiji, 28 April 2014 - 2 May 2014 - Approved MF 40592/2014 2,177 TUKUTAMA, Sean Billy (Mr, nominated expert) - "RA V - SW Pacific Lead (Quality) Auditor Training Workshop", Nadi, Fiji, 28 April 2014 - 2 May 2014 - Approved MF 40592/2014 4,059 FALETIUTE, Tinapa (Mr, nominated expert) - "RA V - SW Pacific Lead (Quality) Auditor Training Workshop", Nadi, Fiji, 28 April 2014 - 2 May 2014 - Approved MF 40592/2014 3,967 Others -3031

Total 111,358

4 VCP Spares/shipping of equipment Purchase of Upgrade to the METLAB data acquisition/display platform 21,227 Return Unspent Balance 2013 -5404 Total 15,822

Total 219,158