Smart & Precise Prognostic Hydrology for Innovative Risk Management and Resource Use Efficiency in Central Asia (SAPPHIRE Central Asia)


The main goal of the project is to improve hydro-meteorological services provision to key stakeholders in Central Asia. This will be achieved through targeted capacity building of National Hydro-Meteorological Services agencies to valorize gauging station data by integrating a digital assistant solution to improve forecast accuracy. This is instrumental for disaster warning and decision-making across water-dependent sectors of the Central Asian economies.

Land/Region Thema Periode Budget
Zentralasien
Klimawandel & Umwelt
Wasser
Meteorologische Dienste
Einsparung von Wasserressourcen
Reduktion von Katastrophenrisiken DRR
01.12.2022 - 30.11.2026
CHF  1’825’000
Hintergrund Central Asia (CA) landscapes span across vast steps to high mountain ranges, making hydro-climatological forecasting a highly complex task. At the same time, populations and economies in CA are highly dependent on water for food and energy security while experiencing high exposure to natural disasters, including hydrological ones. Accurate and timely hydrological and meteorological forecast delivery is the responsibility of CA National Hydro-Meteorological Services (NHMS). Recent years have seen a positive trend in investments towards modernization and automation of gauging stations. Despite the new technologies, computers and servers and other hard-components being available in the CA NHMS, the resulting increasing amount of data cannot be processed due to a lack of appropriate internal methodological guidelines and digital assistants.
Ziele People benefit from improved services by the CA NMHS including through warning of hydro-meteorological risks and water availability.
Zielgruppen

Four NHMSs:

  1. Republican State Enterprise "Kaz-hydromet" under the Ministry of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan
  2. Agency on Hydrometeorology under the Ministry of Emergency Situation of the Kyrgyz Republic
  3. Centre of Hydro-meteorological Services of the Republic of Uzbekistan
  4. Hydro-meteorological Agency under the Committee for Environmental Protection of the Government of Tajikistan
Mittelfristige Wirkungen

Outcome 1: The Kyrgyz NHMS demonstrates the relevance of using of innovative digital solutions for comprehensive hydrological forecasting

Outcome 2: Based on the regional Community of Practice, CA NHMS customize digital forecasting solutions in their respective national contexts

Resultate

Erwartete Resultate:  

Output 1: Methodological guidelines and co-designed requirement lists are the foundation for the implementation of software components under the guidance of the champion KGZ NHMS and provide the institutional ground for processing HF data

Output 2: The iEasyHydro HF Operational Hydrology Block and the data Quality Control Block, are operationalized in the champion KGZ NMHS and daily hydrological journals and bulletins released

Output 3: The champion KGZ NMHS releases high-quality hydrological forecasts via an ecosystem of station-specific predictive models that operate around the iEasyHydro HF Digital Data Warehouse

Output 4: Data from gauging stations are administered operationally using iEasyHydro HF technology in the other CA NHMS, incl. also the release of daily hydrological journals and bulletins

Output 5: High-quality hydrological forecasts are issued in the other CA NHMS via an ecosystem of predictive models that operate around their iEasyHydro HF in-house Digital Data Warehouses

Output 6: A regular regional exchange between CA NHMS and academic institutions for capacity building, joint learning and peer-exchange has fostered a CoP around modern operational hydrology and state-of-the-art hydrological forecasting in CA


Resultate von früheren Phasen:   Switzerland has invested significantly in digitalization of water information systems over the past 20 years in CA. For example, in the Water Accounting and Accountability in the Transboundary Chu-Talas River Basin Project (Chu-Talas Project), lead implementer hydrosolutions GmbH (HSOL) co-designed, tested and operationalized the iEasyHydro software assistant in the Kyrgyz NHMS to improve operational hydrology workflows to process data from existing, traditional / manual gauging stations.


Verantwortliche Direktion/Bundesamt DEZA
Projektpartner Vertragspartner
Privatsektor
  • Schweizerischer Privatsektor
  • hydrosolutions GmbH


Koordination mit anderen Projekten und Akteuren Switzerland’s CROMO-ADAPT; WWCS TJK; CR IWRM in ZRB; and BPCA projects and the WB’s CAHMP and CAFEWS projects
Budget Laufende Phase Schweizer Beitrag CHF    1’825’000 Bereits ausgegebenes Schweizer Budget CHF    1’450’000 Projekttotal seit Anfangsphase Schweizer Beitrag CHF   0 Budget inklusive Projektpartner CHF   1’720’000
Projektphasen Phase 1 01.12.2022 - 30.11.2026   (Laufende Phase)