Meropi PANELI Senior Policy Officer, DEVCO C6, Sustainable Energy and Climate Change, European Commission

1. Development
Cooperation
Meropi Paneli
Senior Policy Officer
European Commission
DG DEVCO
Unit C6 -Sustainable Energy & Climate
Change
e-Weather/e-Climate Information Services for
Sustainable Development in Africa Infor
):
Examples of European Commission support for climate
smart agriculture and food security
Brussels, 27/11/2018ble

2. PolicyDevelopment
Cooperation
 Increasing agricultural productivity, profitability and resilience
to climate change while ensuring food security all requires
access to reliable, customized, and consistent
information including weather forecasts, early warning of
extreme weather events and agronomic advisory services
 Nowadays technology enables to:
 harness advanced remote sensing technologies (e.g. EU
Copernicus satellite weather/climate data) and
 in-situ sensing technologies,
 both combined with mobile technologies
 to support climate-smart agriculture effectively and ensure food
security in a changing climate

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Cooperation
EU-Africa R & I cooperation on Climate Change
 The 2014 (4th) Summit of the Africa-EU Heads of
State, adopted a roadmap, which identifies 'climate
change and environment' as one of the key areas for
cooperation.
 The 2017 (5th) Abidjan Summit launched at the
highest political level a new AU-EU R&I Partnership
on Climate Change and Sustainable Energy (item 29
of the Summit Political Declaration)
 This new Partnership and its roadmap extends the co-design and co-
ownership approach already taken with the first AU-EU R&I Partnership
on Food, Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture launched by the
2014 Africa-EU Summit.
Partnership Policies are in place

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Cooperation
 The EC supports these Partnerships through various funding
instruments:
Financial Support as well
In the area of Climate Services
 The EU R & I Frameworks e.g. Horizon 2020
 DG DEVCO funds,
 Copernicus funds (DG GROW)
 Agriculture funds (PAEPARD II / FARA / RUFORUM Net
/Agrinatura)
RUFORUM – Support to the strengthening capacity of
African universities to develop proposals

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Cooperation
 Since 2001, the EC supports African countries to strengthen their
capacity for weather forecasting and climate predictions as well as
for early warning systems
 Through 3 consecutive programmes, PUMA, AMESD, MESA (overall
financial contribution around €70 million) the EC in partnership with
EUMETSAT and the European Space Agency (ESA) capacitates with
infrastructure, training and technical assistance the:
• National Meteorological Services,
• Regional Climate Centres (ECOWAS-RCC, IGAD-RCC, SADC-RCC, North African RCC-Network and
Central African RCC),
• the African Union Commission and the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for
Development (ACMAD)
• Ministries, Universities,
 to provide access to satellite data for weather forecasting and for
climate and environment monitoring
Financial Support as well
In the area of Climate Services
Examples of Projects funded by DG DEVCO

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Cooperation
The EC continues the support for CS to
ACP countries through:
 The current GMES and Africa Support Programme (2016 –
2020), WASCAL and SASSCAL are members of this
Network/Programme
 The SAWIDRA Programme (implemented by AfD
Bank/ClimDev)aiming to strengthen the core capacities of the
RCCs) to meet the needs of disaster risk management
agencies, notably through exploiting data from meteorological
polar-orbiting satellites
 EuroClima+ (Caribbean / Latin America) -
http://euroclimaplus.org/index.php/es/
 The up-coming Intra-ACP CS Programme: RCCs to get
GFCS accredited

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Cooperation
AU Commission-HRST
African Space Policy and Strategy
Pan-African
11+2 Regional Consortia
Environmental monitoring
services
• Water
• Natural Resources
• Marine
AU Commission-DREA
African Integrated Strategy on
Meteorology
African, Caribbean and Pacific
5+2 Regional WMO certified centers
Climate Information services
• Water
• Agriculture and Food Security,
• Disaster Risk Reduction
• Health
• Energy
(2017-2020) (2019-2024)
Intra ACP CS
…

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Cooperation
DG DEVCO support on Research:
 Research /partnerships with Universities &
Research Institutes at ad-hoc basis under Global
Climate Change Alliance (www.gcca.eu)
 Research Grants through the AUC
 https://au.int/en/aurg/2016/winners
 Platform for African – European Partnership in
Agricultural Research for Development Phase II
(PAEPARD II) -
https://paepard.org/?ProjectPaepard

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Cooperation
The EC offers to these programmes and
all the Institutions of ACP countries:
 The data and services of the EU Copernicus programme (the Copernicus
Climate Service and its Climate Data Store, the Emergency Management
Service, Atmosphere, Marine, Land) free of charge. http://copernicus.eu/
 The INFORM Index a global, open-source risk assessment for
humanitarian crises and disasters. Support decisions about prevention,
preparedness and response. http://www.inform-index.org/
 Based on this Index, the 2015 ACP compendium on Risk provides useful
information to the ACP countries for designing their DRR policies and
actions, their preparedness and response.
https://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/sites/devco/files/acp-compendium-risk-2015_en.pdf

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Cooperation
Key messages
 Policies for R & I Partnerships on Climate Change and
climate smart Agriculture including food security with Africa
in place
 EC supports this collaboration through various funding
instruments, Horizon 2020, Devco funds
 For Climate Services and their embedment to thematic
analysis and assessments, the new opportunities offered by
the Copernicus C3S and the private sector should be
harnessed
• Collaboration between projects is necessary to
harness the complementarities and avoid waste of
resources
• Involvement of last-mille beneficiaries (e.g. farmers
associations, farmers cooperatives, extension services)
right at the project's start is necessary

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Cooperation
Today's INFOPOINT is an effort to bring the worlds of:
 Research, innovation, agriculture/food security &
development
 Remote, in-situ sensing and mobile telecomms
 Public and private sectors
 Climate Change Adaptation,Mitigation and Disaster Risk
Reduction (e.g. early warning systems)
TOGETHER for the benefit of farmers in Africa:
 Frank OHENE ANNOR (Trans African Hydro Meteorological
Observatory – TAHMO), TWIGA Project (http://twiga-h2020.eu/)
 Stelios KOTSOPOULOS (DRAXIS ENVIRONMENTAL S.A.) – Task-
leader for AfriCultuReS Project (http://www.africultures.eu/)
 Boniface AKUKU, Director Information & Communication
Technology, Kenya Agricultural & Livestock Research Organization
(KARLO - www.kalro.org/)

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Cooperation
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Meropi.Paneli@ec.europa.eu