TANZANIA Meteorological Agency (TMA) has expressed optimism that Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation (CCIAM) programme has helped the agency to enhance capacity development in weather and climate services.
The six-year programme which kicked off
in 2009 reaches its climax today, according to its coordinator,
Professor Jumanne Abdallah from Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA).
Speaking during a seminar on achievement
on capacity building innovations and creativity in climate services in
Dar es Salaam yesterday, TMA Director General, Dr Agness Kijazi, said
climate change impacts were posing many challenges which continue to
manifest in Tanzania and the globe.
She said climate change has impacted
socio- economic sectors and livelihoods of most people, particularly
those sensitive to weather and climate.
“For us to address these challenges,
there is need to enhance human capacity development, encouraging
creativity and innovation among scientists, so as to come up with
scientific research which allows diversification of application of
weather and climate services,” she noted.
She was outlining achievements attained
in CCIAM six-year programme which came up with innovations and
creativity in terms of developing some working tools and conducting
research to improve climate services.
The CCIAM programme is a
multi-institutional programme involving four institutions in Tanzania
which are SUA, University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Ardhi University
(ARU) and TMA together with a number of institutions in Norway
coordinated by the University of Life Sciences (NMBU) with support from
the Norwegian government.
According to Dr Kijazi, through CCIAM
programme, TMA has enhanced its human capacity whereby two employees
were sponsored at PhD level and five others were sponsored at Masters of
Science level.
According to Professor Abdallah, during
the programme, about 21 research projects were carried out as well as
putting up enough infrastructures for climate services.
“It is now upon us to nurture lessons learnt from the project to strengthen sustainability results
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