Breakout Groups Session 1

1. Breakout Groups Session 1

2. Objective: This session will focus on the requirements for data and information Systems for a specific transboundary basin for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). The plan will outline integration of remote sensing and in-situ data for IWRM, as well as enhancement of observational and informational systems into planning, decision support and warning programs at the basin level. The breakout groups will focus on identifying needs of the individual national agencies involved. The following round table will explore how agencies, programmes and projects can contribute to the needs that have been identified.

3. Volta Basin: Elements of an implementation plan (Jacob TUMBULTO) 1. Developing Integrated Monitoring SystemsNear-real time observing systems by coupling satellite and in-situ measurements Linkage of meteorological, hydrological and agricultural observations Long-term and comprehensive climate observational data 2. Developing Integrated Early Warning Systems Weather and seasonal prediction coupled with hydrological and agricultural prediction. Optimization systems for reducing disaster risks and increasing societal benefits 3. Assessing Climate Change Impacts for Adaptation Effective use of climate model projection including multi-model analyses, bias correction and downscaling. Assessment system of the climate water food nexus 4. Developing Data and Information Integration and Sharing Systems 5. Promoting Capacity Building Programs

4. Niger project implementation and action plan for 2013 – 2014 (Abdou ALI) • 1) Improve data collection and management (2013 – 2014) • Define optimal hydrometric and meteorological network (2013 – 2014) to support monitoring and forecasting activities in the basin • - Finalize by 2014 the data charter with the NMHS • - Operationalize an integrated regional data system accessible online by 2014 • 2) Develop and operationalize an integrated forecasting system (2013 – 2014), supported by University of Tokyo. • Needs: high climate variability, environmental changes and degradation, new dams, mine exploitation and other pollution

5. Enhancing Safety of Navigation and Efficient Exploitation • of Natural Resources over Lake Victoria (Felix Mutua) • To investigate projected changes in rainfall and flow • regimes at river basin scale through downscaling • 2. To investigate projected regional climatic changes using • CMIP3 GCMs • 3. Improving weather forecasting in the LVB as an adaptation • option • a) To dynamically downscale global weather forecasts and • improve extreme rainfall event prediction in the LVB • through data assimilation • b) To Investigate applicability of downscaled forecasts as forcing • for hydrological flood simulation

6. Medjerda ConclusionsObjectifs d’un projet dans le cadre de AfWCCI(Z. Bargaoui) • Améliorer les bases de données et les systèmes d’information sur le climat et l’hydrologie • Développer les capacités des acteurs de l’eau (associations et services publics) pour l’utilisation de ces systèmes d’information • Développer des centres (ou task forces) pour l’alerte contre les crues et les sécheresses dans un cadre multisectoriel • Promouvoir l’approche de gestion intégrée et durable dans le cadre de l’adaptation au changement climatique et de la réduction des risques hydrologiques

7. Implementation Planning • 1. Demonstration Identification • Participating RBOs: • Targets: • management • science/technology • Partners • Schedule • 2. Agreement for demonstration • 3. Demonstration • Data registration • Model development • Data Integration and analysis • 4. Demonstration evaluation • 5. 2013-2015 work plan • 6. Funding proposal • 7. Plan completion including coordinated capacity building programs • 8. Plan approval (Approval process)

8. 1. What are the requirements for a system that will meet the information needs • of decision-makers in African basins in the following areas: • Integrated data systems • Integrated Early Warning Systems • Assessing Climate Change Impacts for Adaptation - Data and Information Integration and Sharing Systems • Capacity Building Programs • 2. What needs to be developed in terms of integrated data systems and what • obstacles need to be overcome in their implementation? • 3. What needs to be developed in terms of early warning systems and what • obstacles need to be overcome in their implementation? • 4. What needs to be developed in terms of assessing climate change impacts and • what obstacles need to be overcome in their implementation? • What needs to be developed in terms of Data and Information Integration • and Sharing Systems and what obstacles need to be overcome in their • implementation?

9. 6. What needs to be developed in terms of Capacity Building and what obstacles need to be overcome in its implementation? 7. What are there differences in these needs and obstacles between key basins including Volta, Niger. Upper Nile and Medjerda Basins? 8. How do these needs and obstacles apply for other basins in Africa including the Lake Chad and Ogooue Basins? 9. What is the recommended approval process for the planned basin initiatives? 10. What agency(ies) will be responsible for implementing the system and how should the transfer to the system to operations take place?

10. Breakout Groups Breakout Group #1: The room at the back of the bar Chair: Abou Ali Rapporteur: Lerato Senoko Breakout Groups #2 Chair: Mohammed Bila Rapporterur: Feiix Mutua