Lesson learned	The purpose/objective of best practices and lesson leant	Findings during implementation lesson leant	Contribution in enhancement of climate services to respective areas and sectors.
1) Having in place a GFCS governance mechanism at national level	To ensure smooth running of the project with best results	a) Good governance mechanism ensured all activities planned to be implemented timely; b) Successful implementation of the programme.	The governance of GFCS project was good and resulted to successful implementation of GFCS phase I & II and hence similar approach may be used in the implementation of other projects.
2) Baseline survey to identify weather and climate information user needs	To find out the primary ways on their current climate change situation as well as how the users get, use and their priorities of weather and climate products for their decisions	a) Drought was found to be the most significant threat to agriculture followed by pest and diseases; b) At least 80% of the farmers and pastoralists relied on indigenous knowledge and personal experience to make farm decisions; c) Less than 50% of households acknowledged receiving climate information, with limited use of climate information to make farm decisions; d) Longido and Kiteto lived with climate change impacts and had developed local adaptive strategies; e) Rainfall onsets, expected amount of rainfall over the season, end date of the rainy season, number of raindays and probability of extreme events were identified as the preferred climate information by farmers.	Through baseline survey provider of climate services was able to identify current situation of the users include the local climate change impacts which act as input in preparation of climate products.
3) Gender mainstreaming is key towards successful program implementation	To encourage both men and women to be involved in the use of weather and climate services in planning and decision making in their socio-economic activities	a) Men and women were interviewed separately to identify their individual requirements; b) Gender was considered in creation of community listeners groups. The groups were 60 in total, of which 38 were women groups while 22 were men groups; c) Environmental clubs were created in schools containing equal number of female and male students; d) Formation of “Women Exclusive Community Listening Groups” for community radio program and “Her Voice on Air” climate change radio segment following an observation that some women were not free to talk in front of men due to cultural norms.	Through the gender related “Community Listener Groups” climate information priorities for men and women were identified, that enhanced the skills of providers to meet or exceeds user needs. For example the first priority for men was the start dates of seasonal rainfall while women’s first priority was amount of rainfall.
4) Feedback mechanism between users and providers of climate services is important	To evaluate the contribution of weather and climate services to users and their suggestion for further improvement	a) Uliza poll and Beep 4 weather became the best platform for collection of feedback from the farmers and pastoralists; b) FarmSMS system improved feedback mechanism between service provider, intermediaries and user of climate services in 9 villages.	Uliza Polls, Beep 4 weather, community radios, meetings and workshops contributed significantly in collection of feedback from the users. The feedbacks were used as input in improvement of the products and services provided by TMA and hence more than 44,000 end users were reached and received highly improved climate services.
5) Stakeholders’ participation is critical for project ownership and sustainability	To ensure ownership of the project and sustainable achievements	Rehabilitation of earth dam in Olpopong village, Kiteto district which involved planting of trees, construction of water reservoirs, and procurement of new gate valve for controlling water flows.	Rehabilitation of earth dam was not part of the project plan but it was implementing due to stakeholders requirements and hence it became the remarkable achievement that contributed in ensuring availability of water for agro-pastoral activities during dry seasons over the area.
6) The need for adequate climate observation network to enhance production of high-resolution climate information	To get downscaled weather and climate information with a high resolution for local areas	a) 6 Rain gauges were installed in Tingatinga and Dosidosi villages. b) Plan for enhancement of weather reporting using automatic weather stations; c) Temperature Rainfall data from 9 regions were digitized and entered in TMA Climate data base management system (CLIDATA).	Rain gauges installed contributed to get initial condition data in preparation of high-resolution weather forecast over the area; Most of the historical temperature and rainfall data were in paper forms, but through the digitization, the data are current in CLIDATA in electronic form that enable easy analysis and hence enabled to get a correct climatology baseline that contributed in the resilience to climate change impacts.