The Last Mile Workshop Overview Saving lives, improving livelihoods and increasing resiliency with tailored weather information services for a changing climate Livingstone, Zambia, 15-17 March, 2016 Climate information and early warning systems can save lives, improve livelihoods and build resiliency across Africa. In order to seize this opportunity, timely, accurate and actionable weather and climate information must be delivered from data collection and creation sources across the Last Mile to uninformed and vulnerable end-users. In this innovation-driven multi-country workshop, experts on cutting-edge technology, communications, public-private partnerships, meteorology and sustainable development will come together to explore new pathways to move from the collection of data to its application, with the end goal of creating actionable recommendations that UNDP-supported climate-information programmes can leverage to impact lives and build sustainability. For this to happen, national weather information services should not only have access to modern weather observation technologies and forecast information, but they must also be able to communicate and apply the content derived Main Goals from these systems to those in need. Interactive sessions will take participants through the key elements of a Last Mile message design process including audience and message definition and the required data building blocks as well as application design and distribution. Additionally, the workshop will cover the partnerships required to enable the communication of messages across the Last Mile and lessons learned from successful global and local initiatives. Finally, participants will work in teams and with Subject Matter Experts to design nationally relevant Last Mile message plans using the workshop s design framework. A notable side event, The Climate Action Hackathon will take place in parallel to generate ideas for Last Mile products and services from the application development community. Ample time will be provided for interactive discussion between project managers, implementing agency officials and the Last Mile application development community in order to more deeply explore the development of workshop ideas within each national project. Understand challenges and opportunities for UNDP-supported Climate Information and Early Warning Systems projects as we journey toward the last mile Share best practices, innovative technologies and cutting-edge methodologies Define actionable recommendations to cover the Last Mile Build relationships and partnerships Ensure long-term sustainability Embrace innovation Connect, listen, explore
Monday, 14 March, 2016, General Agenda 18:00-20:00 Welcome Reception open to all participants Tuesday, 15 March, 2016, General Agenda 08:30-09:00 Registration of all Participants 09:00-10:00 Welcome and Introductory Remarks - Kapembwa Simbao, Ministry of Communications and Transport of Zambia - Janet Rogan, UN Resident Coordinator / UNDP Resident Representative to Zambia - Bonizella Biagini, Programme Manager Climate Information for Resilient Development, UNDP-GEF - Mary Power, Director, Resource Mobilization, World Meteorological Organization Main Conference Room 10:00-10:30 Group Picture and Coffee Break 10:30-11:30 Session 1: Defining The Last Mile Panel Session Chaired by Bonizella Biagini - Anthony Mills, CEO, C4Ecosolutions - Jean Ngamini, Country Support Specialist Meteorology, CIRDA - Canan Yilmaz, Mass Segment Senior Associate Manager Marketing Management, Vodafone - John Snow, Chief Technical Advisor, Meteorology, Climate, Monitoring, and Forecasting, UNDP-GEF CIRDA Programme - Moving beyond the science of climate change to practical adaptation solutions - Crossing the Last Mile with both public and private information goods and services - Utilizing partnerships for the creation and distribution of Last Mile messages - Establishing a trust relationship between providers and consumers of Last Mile messages 11:30-13:00 Session 2: National Project Progress Reports Panel Session Chaired by Benjamin Larroquette Each national project will report on progress made since the last workshop in Addis Ababa from within their national context. A particular focus will be on national plans for communicating with end users over the Last Mile 13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Session 3: Identifying Messages and communicating with the Last Mile target audiences Chaired by Michael Krisch, Deputy Director of the Brown Institute at Columbia University - Greg Benchwick, Senior Communications Specialist, UNDP- GEF CIRDA Programme - Caelainn Barr, Journalist Data Projects Team, The Guardian - Kunda Mwila, Managing Director Click Technologies Zambia Limited - Arnaud Zannou, Project Manager CI/EWS Benin - Defining the end user target audience - Choosing the proper communication channel - Creating messages that elicit responses - Managing linguistic and literacy challenges - Communicating in Zambia and Benin 15:30-17:00 Session 4: Last Mile Product Building Blocks: Weather and Climate Data, Information and Content Chaired by John Snow - Dr. Chris Mannaers, Associate Professor, University of Twente - Mr. Edson Nkonde, Principal Meteorologist, Research and Development, Zambia Meteorological Department - Cathy Vaughn, IRI, Columbia University - Christopher Sloop, CTO, Earth Networks - Andreas Hedrich, CTO, Ubimet - What data sets currently exist within the NMHS that can power Last Mile products and services - What data sets currently exist online that can power Last Mile products and services - What data sets can the national Climate Information and Early Warning Systems projects readily acquire that can power Last Mile products and services - How can Last Mile products and services use the WMO s Common Alerting Protocol to interface with end users and other distribution systems and services 17:00-17:30 Coffee Break
17:30-19:00 Session 5: Last Mile Application Development and Distribution Panel Chaired by Jeremy Usher - Rachel Cowell, Product Manager, ishamba - David McAfee, President and CEO, Human Network International - Mobile Application Developer (choose from CAH pool) - Mr. Gilbert Lungu, Head of Enterprise Sales, Airtel Zambia - Mr. Patrick Mutimushi, Director Technology and Engineering, Zambia Information and Communications Technology Authority (ZICTA) - Connecting the NMHS with end users through technology platforms, private sector partnerships, and other responsible government agencies - Developing and distributing a Last Mile early warning product via smart phone, feature phone, SMS and other mobile platforms - Choosing the right platform and partners for Last Mile product and service development and distribution Wednesday, 16 March, 2016, Workshop Agenda 09:00-09:30 Review and Goals for the Day Led by Jeremy Usher 09:30-10:15 Session 6: The Commercial Market Opportunity for Weather and Climate Services in Africa, a Market Study Report Chaired by: Anthony Mills - Robert M. Kintu, Managing Director, FIT Uganda - David Whitehead, Speedwell Weather - Stewart Collis, CTO, awhere. - The commercial market opportunity for weather and climate services in Africa - The barriers and challenges to the commercialization of weather services in Africa - Recommended frameworks for sustainable public and private weather services in Africa
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break 10:45-11:30 Session 7: Lessons Learned from the Weather Philippines Foundation Chaired by John Snow - Felix Ayque, General Manager, Philippines, MeteoGroup - Pascal Okello, Project Manager CI/EWS Uganda - Alfei Daniel, Project Manager CI/EWS Tanzania - Establishing a large-scale weather and climate monitoring network in a challenging physical and climatological environment - Leveraging the strengths of the public and private sectors to bring valuable Last Mile weather and climate services to a vulnerable public - Building a trust relationship with the end users of Last Mile weather and climate services delivered by a public/private partnership 11:30-13:00 Session 8: Lessons Learned from Last Mile efforts throughout Africa Chaired by Anthony Mills - Hillary Miller-Wise, CEO, Esoko - Wairimu Muthike, ACRE Africa - Beniah Nyakanda, Agricultural Specialist, Econet/Ecofarmer - Jean Coulibaly, Adaptation Economist, CGAIR - Creating virtuous cycles of value, trust, and ease of access - Establishing a trust relationship between information supplier and end users with regular engagement and knowledge of local context - Using established networks, infrastructure, and services to increase the chance of success for Last Mile products and services 13:00-14:30 Lunch 14:30-16:00 Session 9: Breakout Session I Moderated by Greg Benchwick, Anthony Mills, and Alan Miller
Project teams will be separated into three moderated working groups and requested to develop a basic communications outline, covering stakeholder needs, core messages, channels, distribution methods, monitoring, evaluation and follow up. 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30-18:30 Session 10: Breakout Session II Moderated by John Snow, Georgie George, and Ngamini Jean- Blaise Project teams will be separated into three moderated working groups to combine their communications plan with available, or requested, weather and climate data and applications, to design a prototype Last Mile application within their national context. Thursday, 17 March, 2016, Workshop Agenda 09:00-09:30 Review and Goals of the Day Led by Jeremy Usher 09:30-11:00 Session 11: Country Workshop report back Chaired by John Snow Each project will present their prototype design for a Last Mile product which shall include elements from their communication outline for stakeholder needs, messages, channels for distribution, measurement and evaluation and follow up. 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-13:00 Session 12: The Climate Action Hackathon report back Chaired by Joost Hoedjes Six teams from the Climate Action Hack side event will be chosen to present their prototype design for a Last Mile product which shall include elements from their communication outline for stakeholder needs, messages, channels for distribution, measurement and evaluation and follow up. 13:00-14:30 Lunch 14:30-15:00 Session 13: Country Workshop and Climate Action Hackathon Awards Chaired by Greg Benchwick
National projects and Climate Action Hack teams will be recognized for the best Last Mile product or service ideas to come out of the workshop and side event. 15:00-16:00 Session 14: Building the Last Mile with Public Private Partnerships Chaired by Boni Biagini - Alan Miller, Private Sector Consultant, C4Ecosolutions - Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, Senior Technical Advisor, UNDP Adaptation - John Snow, Chief Technical Advisor, Meteorology, Climate, Monitoring, and Forecasting, UNDP-GEF CIRDA Programme A new publication from the UNDP/CIRDA team entitled A new vision: Building resiliency to climate change through publicprivate partnerships and advanced weather systems in Africa will be presented. 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break 16:30-17:30 Session 16: Workshop Evaluation and Introduction to the Benin CIRDA Workshop Chaired by Boni Biagini 17:30-18:00 Closing Remarks - Bonizella Biagini, CIRDA Manager - Patrick Kangwa, National Coordinator of Zambia s Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit - Jacob Nkomoki, Director, Zambia Meteorological Department - Representative from Zambia UNDP Country Office - Jeremy Usher, Senior Technical Advisor, UNDP-GEF CIRDA Programme