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 […]
Theme: Early Warning System
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 Global Drought Monitoring Portal (GDMP) is a newly developed international drought monitoring web portal operated by the United States with input provided by collaborative activities in North America, Europe, […]
Global Drought Monitoring Portal
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
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 […]
Food Security Outlook Forum (FSO)
The Central American Climate Outlook Forum (CA-COF) issues three seasonal outlooks per year and brings together the capacities of all seven weather services in the region. The Forum is organized by […]
Central American Climate Outlook Forum
The partnership between the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) and the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) formed in 2007 and addresses the need to reduce […]