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New CIRDA Blogs
Creating an Early Warning System
A Simple Step-By-Step Guide
By Bonizella Biagini
Sharing early warnings of fast-moving, rapidly evolving
weather phenomena that threaten lives, crops, livestock and infrastructure
should be easy… but it’s not. Poor observational data, poor communications,
technical limitations, infrastructure limitations, illiteracy, multiple
languages, lack of trust, rolling blackouts and myriad other factors make it
really, really hard to do – and do well – especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
This simple guide taken from the UNDP’s Climate Information and Early Warning Systems
Communications Toolkit provides an easy
step-by-step process to build an early warning system from the ground up.
Applied Learning from the UNDP Last Mile Conference in Zambia
Connecting Last Mile Weather and Climate Products to National Hydro-Meteorological Services
The UNDP’s Programme on Climate Information for Resilient Development in Africa (CIRDA) Last Mile Conference in Zambia brought together leading thinkers in both the public and private sectors to discuss how weather and climate information can be applied to save lives and improve livelihoods.
There were discussions on communications, market forces and sector-wide imperatives, application development, enabling policies and more. We’ll be sharing the top lessons learned in a series of ongoing blogs. But it’s important to take a 50,000-foot view of some of the top outcomes of the meeting.
Human-Centered Design Key in Climate Action Hackathon Prototypes
By Michael KrischIn the past few years, "design thinking" has become a buzzword that has infiltrated all sectors of business and academia. Harvard Business Review, in a cover article on the topic, posits the rise in complex technologies and the need for easy interfaces as reasons for the surge. But ultimately, what is design thinking and why is it all the rage? And how did Climate Action Hackathon developers apply basic design thinking principles to design and prototype useful applications?
In the News
Ethiopia: 28 people killed in floods in remote regions
KLKN
Ethiopian meteorology officials said thick clouds around the Indian Ocean could lead to more flooding in the coming days and the government is ...
'Maximise ICT use to determine weather patterns'
NewsDay
Environment, Water and Climate minister Oppah Muchinguri has implored Southern African Nations to maximise the use of information communication ...
Two weeks ago, I participated in a United Nations Development Program workshop in Zambia. The CIRDA project is working with 11 African countries to improve the meteorological capacity of those countries in terms of observation networks, services and specifically information dissemination and interactions with public institutions and private enterprise.
Training Course on Early Warning Systems
Indepth Research Services (IRES) is delighted to invite you to attend our upcoming 5 days Training Course on Early Warning Systems to be held in Nairobi from 30th May 2016.
The training is aimed at helping participants and their respective organizations to design and implement Early Warning Systems. The course will help participants develop an early warning systems and risk management plans tailored to the needs of their respective organizations…