In direct response to the global call for increase resilience with emphasis on the most vulnerable regions in the developing world and particularly the Sahel, the CSIRS project will develop capacity, improve climate services and support international cooperation for knowledge and technology exchanges in the Sahel.. Its aim is to contribute to better management of risks and exploitation of opportunities arising from climate variability and change in the Sahel through strengthening Regional and national climate services by:
- Enhancing development, delivery and use of climate information at regional level;
- Increasing resilience through enhancing decision making processes by integrating climate information ;
- Enhancing cooperation in the Sahel for development and use of climate services
The “Climate Services for Increased Resilience in the Sahel”(CSIRS) project has a regional as well as a national component (Burkina Faso, Senegal and Niger).
The regional component supports Regional Climate Centre for Africa hosted by ACMAD through capacity development, products generation, knowledge and technology exchanges with National Meteorological Services and US /NOAA/ NCEP/Climate Prediction Centre. It promotes consistent and integrated efforts across national and regional stakeholders to avoid duplication, ensure complementarily of efforts and to optimize resources.
This aim will be tackled following a clearly structured concept: the work flows from staff deployment and training, improvements on and generation of climate services, communication using facilities available through new information technologies, cooperation for knowledge and technology exchanges.
The regional component of CSIRS integrates the expertise of climate, hydrology experts at global, regional and national levels as well as web, database, health, disaster risk reduction specialists. The project team at ACMAD is made up of several nationalities, which have the shared ambition to achieve maximum support to the development, provision, and uptake and use climate information for resilience building in the Sahel.
