WORKSHOP ON REVIEWING AND VALIDATING: ACMAD STRATEGIC PLAN 2024- 2027 AND CLIMSA EXTENSION WORKPLAN

DATE

February 28th, 2025

Location

Hotel Univers, Niamey

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BACKGROUND :

Africa faces numerous socio-economic challenges, which are further exacerbated by the increasing impacts of climate change. Addressing these challenges requires stronger partnership and more efficient climate service institutions that integrate the needs of all key stakeholders into their vision and action plans. Furthermore, ACMAD as WMO’s Regional Climate Centre for Africa, plays a key role in providing strategic climate information, advisories, guidance and capacity building program to its member states. In response to this urgent need, in October 2023, ACMAD has issued a “DRAFT STRATEGIC PLAN 2024-2027” declining its vision and updated his strategic plan (2020-2023) to better align with the evolving African priorities and relevant international frameworks.

As part of this effort, ACMAD is organizing a Strategic Retreat Workshop on Friday, 28 February 2025, in Niamey, Hotel Univers. This workshop aims to review and validate ACMAD-ClimSA activities and facilitate an in-depth review of the ACMAD 2024-2027 strategic plan, ensuring its validation and adoption by all the s

OBJECTIVE:

The specifics objectives of the workshop will be:

  • Review and validate ACMAD CLIMSA Workplan and activities
  • Finalize and validate ACMAD’s strategic plan for the 2024-2027 period.
  • Ensure the plan’s alignment with the global objectives of WMO, the African Union, and other partners.
  • Ensure good knowledge and adoption of strategic action plan by all Staff.

EXPECTED OUTCOMES:

The workshop is expected to deliver the following outcomes:

  • A validated ACMAD-ClimSA activities
  • A finalized and validated strategic plan.
  • Strengthened staff and other stakeholder commitment to its implementation.
  • Enhanced understanding and ownership by staff of the Strategic Action Plan

Agenda:

 

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Time (GMT+1)........ Activities Moderator
8h30 – 09h:00 Installation Protocol
09h00 – 09h15 Opening Ceremony DG / Director Niger Met Representative of the Board
09h15 – 10h00 Presentation of ACMAD 2024-2027 Strategic Plan and Validation of ClimSA extension activities DG
09h30 – 10h00 Coffee break
10h00 – 13h00 Group discussions on the different axes of the action plan

(DG and key staff representant Interviews)		 All staff
13h00 – 14h00 Lunch break
14h00 – 15h00 Group discussions on the different axes of the action plan All staff
15h00 – 16h30 Plenary sessions for consolidating proposals All staff
16h00 – 16h30 Coffee break
16h30 – 17h30 Strategic plan adoption and Recommendations All staff
17h30 - 18h00 Closing Ceremony DG

Contact

For more inquiries, please contact this following link: contact@acmad.org