AGEDI- Abu Dhabi

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State of Environment

AGEDI Regionally and Globally

Data and Applications

AGEDI Background and Project Information

Excellence Programme

Al Basama Al Beeiya Intitiative

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AGEDI – Abu Dhabi is a subcomponent of AGEDI geared solely to the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.

AGEDI – Abu Dhabi will serve as a developmental test bed and ultimately as the basic model for implementation within other Emirates, the nation and then eventually the region.

Objectives

The pilot program has four objectives-

· Provide the first step towards the National, Regional, and International levels of AGEDI Implementation

· Critically analyze the feasibility of implementing AGEDI components at the National, Regional, and International levels

· Assess how AGEDI will integrate with existing EAD programs and organizational structure

· Provide better definition of what AGEDI is through the combination of products and the staff, data, infrastructure, procedures, and other resources required to produce those products

Programme Framework

The purpose of the programme framework is to divide AGEDI Abu Dhabi into discrete components that define what the pilot is.

It is useful to think of the framework parts as legs of a table on which AGEDI-Abu Dhabi and eventually AGEDI will stand.

Summary Description of AGEDI- Abu Dhabi Pilot Project Components

AD-SNIPP Component

Description

State of the Environment (SOE) Framework

·   Describes the existing environmental situation within Abu-Dhabi

·   Identifies pressing environmental issues

·   Prioritizes scientific research and EAD activities by matching them to pressing environmental issues

·   Provides the driving force for AGEDI and AGEDI-Abu Dhabi by setting the data, analysis, reporting, and knowledge dissemination requirements

Data

·   Information required to support AGEDI - Abu Dhabi products- e.g. State of the Environment Framework, EAD programs, and AGEDI operations

Technical Infrastructure

·   Hardware, software, and communications infrastructure required to collect and manage data, perform analyses, make decisions, and produce products

Operations

·   Procedures and staff resources required to maintain technical infrastructure, manage data, perform analyses, and produce products

Partnerships

·   Relationships with external agencies and organizations that will strengthen capacity and increase access to data and resources

Vision

The vision of AGEDI-Abu Dhabi is to develop and implement a replicable, networked, adaptive, and working model for the development and use of high quality spatial environmental data by all users within the Emirate of Abu Dhabi that will support sustainable decision and policy making.

Purpose

The purpose of the pilot is to serve as both the first phase of AGEDI implementation as well as a means to better define what AGEDI is and how it will function within the EAD organization and the Emirate

Programme Framework Diagram

Benefits

The expected benefits and returns from the successful implementation of the pilot are diverse. Enhancement of environmental data and information collection and management throughout Abu Dhabi extends to the improvement of environmental policy and decision-making, coordination and cooperation between relevant agencies, awareness, data quality, as well as the improvement of priority setting. Additional benefits include savings in time and productivity as a result of the increased and consistent data availability, the elimination of redundancies in data collection, and capacity building for environmental data/information related issues in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.