Strengthening the Climate Services User Interface Platform Workshop
START DATE
26 July 2022
END DATE
29 July 2022
UIP1, 26th to 29th July 2022,YAOUNDE, WORKSHOP
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.
Contact
For further information, please contact African Centre of Meteorological Application for Development (ACMAD) on contact@acmad.org
The first continental workshop of the User Interface Platform (UIP) held in Yaoundé, Cameroon that started on 26 July 2022 under the patronage of the Honorable Minister Mr. Jean Ernest Massena Ngalle Bibehe, Minister of Transport of Cameroon, and ended on 29 July 2022. The objective of this workshop was to structure the User Interface Platform recommended by the World Meteorological Organization’s Global Framework for Climate Services, such as to lay the foundations of the platform for dialogue and exchange on relevant issues related to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and the African Union’s Agenda 2063.
In his speech, the Minister in charge of Meteorology in Cameroon and current President of the African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET), recalled that “it is a question of bringing together climate service providers and sectoral users, to structure the user interface as recommended by the Global Framework for Climate Services”.
He then welcomed the importance that the various stakeholders attach to the issue of structuring the provider-user interface. This commitment, according to him, can only develop more effective weather and climate services and applications for sustainable development in Africa. As for the President of PAFO (Pan African Farmers Organization), one of the users of climate services present at this workshop, he reaffirmed that Strengthening the value chain of climate services in Africa is necessary to provide the climate services needed to adapt and strengthen the resilience of the economy and society, thus facilitating sustainable development. The analysis of the climate services value chain, he said, calls for the urgent need to structure mechanisms for effective interactions between providers of climate information and knowledge and users that support co-design, co-development leading to valuable and tailored climate services.
Work towards the establishment of this platform is ongoing and will end on 29 July 2022.