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improving the capacity of National uptake seasonal climate forecasts for rainfall
Meteorological and Hydrological season and early warning advisories based
Services to access, process and on consensus regional forecasts generated by
monitor of the weather- and climate- climate experts from Member States. The
related data and systems for timely SARCOF advisories aim to guide strategic
early warning and information
planning to climate, weather and water-
dissemination.
sensitive sectors towards enhancing
v Outcome 2 Effective integration of
preparedness and response to imminent
regional early warning operational.
The Project capacitated the SADC hazards.
Climate Services Centre (CSC) to About 80 experts from various climate
optimize its High Performance sensitive sectors have been trained under the
Computing Cluster and to generate project.
daily, weekly and monthly weather and
climate information for the use by the Intra-ACP Climate Services and Related
different stakeholders
Application Programme
(http://csc.sadc.int/). The SADC CSC
The proposed action takes place within the
also issued several advisories on
framework of an existing Financing
extreme weather events (such as
Agreement between the African, Caribbean
cyclone, drought, heavy rain and
floods) to Member States. and Pacific (ACP) Secretariat and the
v Outcome 3 Competent team of implementation of the Intra-ACP Climate
national/regional experts trained to Services and related Application Programme,
respond to the needs of national under the 11 th EDF, with a budget of
disaster risk management The Project €8,000,000.
conducted a series of capacity building The overall objective of the
activities in early warning at national programme is to strengthen the climate
74 and regional levels: service value-chain through building the
Seasonal climate forecasting
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capacities of decision-makers to make
technique during pre-SARCOF and
effective use of climate information and
its midterm review and update;
• IT administration for High services. The programme has five specific
Performance Computing servers; objectives and five outputs. The specific
objectives are to:
• Climate risk assessment;
v Provide timely climate information
• Meso-scale forecasting for extreme
and early warning to support climate-
weather event (Numerical Weather
sensitive sectors such as the
Prediction); and Water-Energy-Food nexus, for the
• Climate modelling. mitigation of the impacts of climate
In addition, the project funded the variability and climate change for
two annual Southern African Climate poverty alleviation, management of
Outlook Forums (SARCOF22 and environment and sustainable
SARCOF23) that brought together experts development;
from various climate sensitive sectors to v Develop an improved, proactive,
timely, broad-based system of
information/product dissemination
and feedback through the improved
User Interface Platform (UIP), at both
sub-regional and national scales;
v Improve the technical capacity of
producers and users of climate
information, in order to enhance the
use of climate monitoring and
forecasting products in climate risk
management and environmental
management;