Consultation workshop for the establishment and operationalization of user platforms for climate services in the sectors of agriculture and disaster risk management
About Workshop
ACMAD in collaboration with WMO, ClimSA and the National Meteorological Centre of Cameroon is organizing the consultation workshop for the establishment and operationalization of user platforms for climate services in the sectors agriculture and disaster risk management.
The Intra ACP programme ‘Climate Services and related Application (ClimSA) is part of the 11th European Development Fund contributing to the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS). Its overall objective is to promote sustainable development by combating climate change through strengthening the climate services value chain.
In this context, the WMO is working with the ACMAD centre to implement the ClimSA programme in Cameroon, which has been selected as the pilot country for the Central Africa region. This pilot project will benefit Cameroon’s National Meteorological Directorate and its partners. The aim of this collaboration is to carry out a review of existing climate services initiatives and determine the country’s needs for improving these services, organise training on the climate services value chain, assess the socio-economic benefits of climate services in the key sectors of agriculture and disaster management, organise national and local climate forums to speed up the operationalisation of the national framework for climate services, in particular the user interfaces, and organise regional workshops to share experiences and support the user interfaces at regional level in Central Africa.
This action is also part of ACMAD’s mission to develop meteorological applications, in particular to support the implementation of WMO programmes in Africa.
Objectives
The main objective of the workshop is to establish or strengthen user interfaces for climate services for the agriculture and disaster risk management sectors.
More specifically, the aim is to
- Identify stakeholders and needs for climate services;
- Determine the purpose and objectives of user platforms for agriculture and disaster risk management;
- Discuss the gaps to be filled and the improvements to be made to the products currently provided by the National Meteorological Department and its partners;
- Identify in depth the challenges in terms of institutional, organisational, technical and operational capacities and the proposed responses to be provided with a view to modernising climate services for resilience and adaptation to climate shocks;
- Exchanging and proposing inter-institutional agreements with a view to formalising operational platforms;
- Validate the Terms of Reference, the catalogues of products and services and the Rules of Procedure of the interfaces.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
The consultation workshop will provide
- The needs for climatological services for the DRR and the agriculture sector are listed;
- The catalogues of products and services to meet these needs are available;
- Shortcomings and possible improvements to products are documented;
- Challenges and proposed solutions for capacity development are available to modernize climate services in both sectors;
- Terms of Reference, products and services, Rules of Procedure for DRR-Agriculture interfaces are validated.
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