February
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Including Climate & Weather Information in Participatory Planning and Assessment Tools and Methods
- 06/01/2016
The learning event will be organized at the UN complex in Gigiri in Nairobi, in Conference Room 9, on the 1st and 2nd of February 2016.
The event will be co-hosted by the GFCS Adaptation Programme in Africa, the Kenya Meteorological Department and the Met Office. The objective of the event is to identify best practice and share learning on including climate and weather information in participatory planning, assessment and decision making support tools and methods within practitioners in the field, with a focus on East and Southern Africa.
The main outcome of the event will be a compendium that includes case studies illustrating the main tools and methods currently being used. The target audience for the event and the compendium are practitioners who are already using these tools and methods, or who are looking to start using them or develop a specific tool for their organization. Participating organizations will be requested to produce brief case studies in advance.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is the lead agency for the Norway funded Global Framework for Climate Services Adaptation programme that is being implemented in Malawi and Tanzania over three years (2014 – 2016). The Programme is a partnership of seven international agencies and research institutes:
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)
Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo (CICERO) and the Chr.Michelsen Institute (CMI)
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) including Norwegian Red Cross and Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre
World Food Programme (WFP)
World Health Organization (WHO)
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
This is the first time the above agencies have worked together on delivering climate services and represents a unique approach that includes natural and social scientists as well as large development and humanitarian agencies working on the ground. A number of the programme partners have begun to
develop approaches to better incorporating weather and climate information into their participatory planning processes.
Contact ssandstrom@wmo.int for more information.
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