FOCUS-Africa’s Collaborative Success in Enhancing Climate Services for Africa

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The FOCUS-Africa project, alongside its sister projects CONFER and DOWN2EARTH, recently held a series of impactful meetings in Brussels. These sessions aimed to enhance knowledge sharing and capacity building in climate services across Africa. During...

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Enhancing Climate Services Capacity in the SADC Region: Insights from the FOCUS-Africa Training Workshop

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Climate variability and change pose significant challenges to various sectors, necessitating the development of tailored climate services for effective decision-making. In this pursuit, the FOCUS Africa capacity development training program recently ...

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FOCUS-Africa’s Harvest of Impact: Climate Resilience in the Heart of Malawi

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Sunny weather, beautiful landscapes and smiley faces welcomed us in the Warm Heart of Africa. The CS2 team, made up of DCCMS, BSC, WEMC, and LGI set out from Blantyre to the historical village of Zomba. Here, in this inspiring environment, we engaged...

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Mission to Tanzania: Advancing Climate Resilience and Food Security

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Arriving in Dar es Salaam under the strong tropical rain was a brand-new experience of Tanzania for the European part of the FOCUS-Africa team. We arrived just in time for the onset of the rainy season, which was at the core of our discussions on foo...

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Optimizing Climate Resilience: FOCUS-Africa’s Impactful Mission in Tanzania

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The Full Value Chain Optimized Climate User Centric Services for Southern Africa (FOCUS-Africa) project develops tailored climate services in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. The full value chain of climate services is being ...

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Stakeholder engagement for Climate Services in Southern Africa: understanding users needs and assessing capacity gaps

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The 3rd stakeholder workshop of the FOCUS-Africa project took place from 30 May to 3 June 2022 in Pretoria, South Africa with about seventy participants comprising local stakeholders, consortium and advisory board members, and representatives from Na...

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FOCUS-Africa Editorial, by Roberta Boscolo

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This second issue of FOCUS-Africa Newsletter coincides with the first mid-term review of the project. Yes, we already reached 18+ months of implementation while employing our creativity, innovation and efforts in order to minimize the impacts of COVI...

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FOCUS-Africa mission to Mauritius

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Interacting with users and stakeholders to understand their climate services needs. The FOCUS-Africa Case Study 8 team, comprising of staff from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research...

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SAVE THE DATE: FOCUS-AFRICA 3rd STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOP

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30 May – 3 June 2022- South Africa Background information The First FA Stakeholders’ Workshop was focused on South Africa and took place virtually. It was comprised of Internal workshop (30 November – 1 December 2020) and external stakeholder w...

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THINKING LONG-TERM IMPACT TO DESIGN WELL FROM DAY ONE

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A Methodology for the socio-economic impact assessment of climate services. Sadly we know today that in the race to fight climate change, we also have to learn how to adapt to the inevitable changes to come. Climate services equip decision-makers ...

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