The Climate Hazards Group (CHG) explores the impacts of climate change and variability on food security in the developing world, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and Central America. As part of […]
Location: Africa
In 2008, a help desk was established to address the meteorological information used by the International Federation of Red Cross West Africa and Central Zone (IFRC WACZ) for disaster mitigation […]
Climate Help Desk for Humanitarian Action and Decision Making in ...
RCOFs are organized with the overarching goal to produce and disseminate climate information for the upcoming season. Climate experts develop a consensus on the upcoming season and deliver their conclusions […]
Regional Climate Outlook Forums in Africa
The Climate Information Portal (CIP) is a web interface operated by the Climate System Analysis Group (CSAG), at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. The portal integrates climate information into a […]
Climate Information Portal (CIP)
The project is currently in the planning stages focusing on a detailed needs-assessment and initial design of project activities. The proposed Project Development Objective is to strengthen hydrological and meteorological […]
World Bank Support for Hydro-Met Services in Mozambique
As one of the focal risk management strategies within the R4 framework, weather index insurance is a promising tool for facilitating adaptation to climate risk. It can enhance peoples’ economic […]
R4 Rural Resilience Initiative in Ethiopia
In order to minimize vulnerability and enhance preparedness and coping capacity, the Namibia Red Cross Society (NRCS) and the American Red Cross (ARC) are working in partnership to implement a […]
Building Resilient African Communities (BRACES)
In order to minimize the frequency of desert locust plagues and their associated food losses, locust-affected countries and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) have […]
Desert Locust Information Service
Enhancing National Climate Time Series (ENACTS) aims to support decision-makers in climate-sensitive sectors by filling spatial and temporal gaps in existing climate observations and providing an array of derived products […]
Enhancing National Climate Time Series (ENACTS)
The Health Risk Management in a Changing Climate project aims to improve the use of early warning information by implementing community-level health interventions in selected communities throughout the Tanga region […]
Health Risk Management in a Changing Climate
The Meningitis Environmental Risk Information Technologies (MERIT) initiative is a multi-disciplinary community of partners who conduct research to advance the use of climate-related information in strengthening public health strategies for […]
Meningitis Environmental Risk Information Technologies (MERIT)
To address these risks, the Climate Outlook Forum (COF) which feeds into the Food Security Outlook (FSO) process has been developed as a user-developed tool for the Greater Horn of […]