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Monitoring of Environment and Security in Africa – MESA An Overview and Update

Monitoring of Environment and Security in Africa – MESA An Overview and Update. Outline. General Purpose Objectives Context Expected Results Budget Thematic Actions Preparatory Status. Purpose and Objective. Purpose :

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Monitoring of Environment and Security in Africa – MESA An Overview and Update

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  1. Monitoring of Environment and Security in Africa – MESA An Overview and Update SLIDE Nr. 1 of 11

  2. Outline • General Purpose • Objectives • Context • Expected Results • Budget • Thematic Actions • Preparatory Status

  3. Purpose and Objective • Purpose: • To increase the information management, decision-making and planning capacity of African continental, regional and national institutions mandated for environment, climate, food security and related responsibilities by enhancing access to and exploitation of relevant Earth Observation applications in Africa. • General Objective: • To support African decision-makers and planners in designing and implementing national, regional and continental policies and development plans towards sustainable development, thereby advancing the socioeconomic progress and well-being of African populations towards achievement of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs). SLIDE Nr. 3 of 11

  4. Context • The MESA programme builds on the outgoing AMESD programme, using Earth Observation (EO) data and information products for environment and sustainable development. • The Programme is specifically designed for the African users at Continental,Regional and National levels in (AUC, 5 African Regions, 48 countries) • Implementation Timeframe: 2013-2018 SLIDE Nr. 4 of 11

  5. Context • MESA contributes to the Joint Africa-Europe Strategy: • By strongly supporting environment and climate objectives through the use of Earth Observation tools, like AMESD, MESA contributes to the Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES) 6th Partnership on Climate Change and Environment. • the project’s reliance on proven satellite and land-based monitoring technology is consistent with the JAES 8th Partnership on Science, Information Society and Space. SLIDE Nr. 5 of 11

  6. Expected Results (5) • Infrastructure Support, including upgrading and maintenance of receiving stations and information and data management in all Sub-Saharan African countries → About Improving Access EO data! • Consolidate and further develop Information Services in the thematic areas addressed by AMESD, but also include new thematic areas (e.g. climate services, and forest information). • → About providing info to decision-makers! • 3. Promote cross-fertilisation among the five partner regions and pursue the continentalisation of services → About benefiting all Africa! SLIDE Nr. 6 of 11

  7. Expected Results 4.Strengthen political and policy development frameworks to ensure an active and sustainable participation of African stakeholders in initiatives concerning Earth Observation for environment and security → About promoting EO for development! 5. Capacity development and training of African stakeholders at continental, regional and national levels → About Sustainability! Through Capacity Building SLIDE Nr. 7 of 11

  8. Budget • The overall budget of the programme is estimated at €40 000 000, consisting of: • EUR 37 000 000 of EDF funds: • 1. EU contribution EUR 20 000 000 from Intra-ACP 10th EDF envelope; • 2. EUR 17 000 000 (EDF) contributions from 5 RECs, • CEMAC (EUR 2 000 000), • ECOWAS (EUR 5 000 000), • IGAD+IOC (EUR 5 000 000), • SADC (EUR 5 000 000). • Approximately EUR 3 000 000 in-kind contributions from the Joint Research Centre (JRC), EUMETSAT, the European Space Agency (ESA) and others. SLIDE Nr. 8 of 11

  9. Thematic Actions

  10. Preparatory Status • Financing Agreement has been signed in March 2012 • Administrative Arrangement with JRC signedFeb. 2013 • Technical Assistance Team in place since April 2013 • Grant Proposalsubmitted to AUC for technicalevaluation. • BDMS completed and submitted the MESA SADC THEMA proposal to the SADC Secretariat for endorsement and subsequentsubmission to AUC on the 4th April 2013 • SADC Secretariatsubmitted to proposal to AUC on the 30 April 2013. • BDMS receivedtwobatches of commentsfromtechnicalevaluators last week, however, stillawaitingconsolidate official report from AUC.. • TechnicalAssitanceexpectedatduty station (BDMS) 24 June 2013 • Stillhopeful for the Grant contract to besigned in July 2013 SLIDE Nr. 10 of 11

  11. Monitoring of Environment and Security in Africa – MESA SUMMARY OF MESA SADC THEMA SLIDE Nr. 11 of 11

  12. Outline • Selection Criteria • Project Location • Relevance of the Action • Description of the Action • Coordination improvement • Preliminary Evaluation Results

  13. Selection Criteria AGRICULTURE (Crop Monitoring / Grazing) Food AMESD SADC THEMA DROUGHT MESA SADC THEMA FIRE (Before, During, After) Shelter Flooding Deforestation Quality of life Air Quality

  14. Relevance of the Action Project Location • The “right information at the right moment” • SADC territory is huge (233M people on 9,882,959 Km2) • Economies are mainly tight to their Natural Resources • Crop production is responsible for 60-70% of export earnings and employment • Selling agricultural resources is the main generator of savings for the people • 95 per cent of agriculture in SADC is rain dependant • Forest covers 33% of SADC land area (357M hectares)

  15. Continue AMESD Services + Flood • Expand and improve AMESD Services • Specifically builds upon AMESD SADC THEMA Achievements AMESD Service Proposed MESA Service • Add one new service (Flood Service)

  16. MESA vs. AMESD (1) Implementation structure AMESD and MESA MESA SLIDE Nr. 16 of 11

  17. MESA vs. AMESD SLIDE Nr. 17 of 11

  18. MESA vs. AMESD National Steering Committee SLIDE Nr. 18 of 11

  19. MESA & AMESD (4) Linkages Grant Contract F.A P.A MoU AMESD and MESA F.A = Financing Agreement P.A = Partnership Agreement MoU = Memorandum of Understanding MESA SLIDE Nr. 19 of 11

  20. Preliminary Results SLIDE Nr. 20 of 11

  21. What remains to be done? Clarification/Justification doc SLIDE Nr. 21 of 11

  22. MESA & AMESD (4) ??.Jul. 2013 Grant Contract F.A P.A Linkages 13.Mar. 2013 Sep. 2013 Oct. 2013 F.A = Financing Agreement P.A = Partnership Agreement MoU = Memorandum of Understanding SLIDE Nr. 22 of 11

  23. THANK YOU MERCI

  24. General Purpose To improve decision making-processes in Agriculture environment Resource management in the SADC Region • By increasing the information management capacity of the participating member states (specifically institutions mandated to deal with Agriculture and environmental resources. • By facilitating access to Africa-wide environmental information derived from EO technologies

  25. 2.a Global Objectives To enhance the management of Agricultural and Environmental Resources (which includes EWS for Disasters)in Region (SADC/Member states • To facilitate “ Informed decision making”

  26. 2.b Expected Results • Result 1 : Improved access by African users to existing basic Earth observation, field and ancillary data • Result 2 : MESA SADC THEMA Geo-information Services developed and made operational to improve decision-making processes • Result 3 : Cross-fertilization and Continentalization of SADC THEMA services realized. • Result 4 : Political and policy frameworks are strengthened to ensure an active and sustainable participation of SADC member states in the global environmental surveillance initiatives • Result 5 : An adequate technical level of AMESD African stakeholders is permanently ensured

  27. 3) SADC THEMA: “Result” Proposed MESA SADC THEMA Services Basic Ideas: 1. Expand and improve • Agriculture • Crop service • Livestock Drought • Fire 2. Add 1 New services • Floods SA National Workshop 21 September 2012, Pretoria , South Africa

  28. 3) SADC THEMA: “Result” Implemetation Structures National Coordinator SA National Workshop 21 September 2012, Pretoria , South Africa

  29. MESA & GMES (2) How to work together? The stakeholders of the MESA program in Africa can benefit a great deal from the GMES services; at the same time the feedback from MESA users will be useful to refine GMES products → a structured dialogue needs to be in place. Links between AMESD/MESA and GMES communities can also be strengthened through capacity development and training (from GMES to MESA stakeholders). In practice: to start with, a technical forum between the two communities could be organized back to back an AMESD/MESA meeting, to present in detail GMES services and agree on areas of cooperation SLIDE Nr. 29 of 11

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