Workshop on Strengthening the Climate Service User Interface

About this Workshop

African Centre of Meteorological Application for Development (ACMAD), African Union Commission (AUC ) and Local organising partner  invites you to hybrid (primarily as a face-to-face event, however remote access will be made available in case any participant is not able to attend in person) workshop the first Continental Climate Service User Interface Workshop consisting of a plenary session on the status of climate services provision in Africa followed by parallel sessions on the detailed needs of agriculture and water, Disaster Risk Reduction, and health sectors to build resilience and adaption to climate change impacts.  A second plenary dedicated to presentation and adoption of updated climate services needs of the sectors mentioned above, the Terms of Reference of User interface platforms per sector and rules of procedures governing the operations of the platforms. The workshop will be held between 26 and 29 July 2022 in Yaounde, Cameroon.

Workshop Objectives

The workshop will seek to strengthen climate service user interfaces with the following key objectives:

• Collecting and sharing information on climate outlooks, state of climate for Africa including trends, extremes, other significant events and sectoral impacts from both climate services providers and users.
• Collecting and updating information on status and challenges on users’ policy, decision, practices, and actions to reduce impacts as well as their implementation.
• Based on challenges or needs, review climate services requirements to be delivered by ClimSA and other programmes.
• Structuring training of service providers for development of advanced bespoke sectoral climate services and users for interpretation and use of services as part of the Regional Climate Outlook fora and other events:
•  Sharing experiences on good practices for establishment and operation of User Interfaces.

For further information, please contact African Centre of Meteorological Application for Development (ACMAD) on contact@acmad.org