Drawing a regional picture of hydromet and early warning services in Africa
Thursday, Dec 03, UTC 11:00 to 11:55
Organizer: World Bank, ECCAS, ECOWAS, IGAD, SADC
| With more extreme and more frequently occurring weather and climate events in Africa, the Regional Economic Communities in Africa – Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Southern African Development Community (SADC) – have called for modernizing weather, water and climate services to build resilience in communities and economies and provide effective early warning in their regions. The session will highlight the (preliminary) findings of regional studies on strengthening hydromet and early warning services, which were financed by the Building Disaster Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa Program: • Highlight findings from analytical work on strengthening hydromet services and early warning in ECCAS, ECOWAS and SADC; • Draw a picture of regional issues and collaboration for strengthening hydromet services; • Present regional products, services and innovations as well as their challenges and limitations; • Share policy guidance and share experience from the formulation of ECOWAS’ and IGAD’s regional flood management policy frameworks; |
