Multinational - Institutional Support to African Climate Institutions Project

The institutional support to African climate institutions project will support the first component of the ClimDev-Africa program is to enhance the capacity of African climate centers to generate and make widely available relevant climate-related information to end users. These centers are: the African Centre for Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD), the Agrometeorology and Hydrology Regional Centre (AGRHYMET), IGAD Climate Prediction and Application Centre (ICPAC) and the Drought Monitoring Centre (DMC). This project aims at addressing these problems by providing substantial financial resources to strengthen the capacities of four regional climate centers to provide appropriate climate services to support development efforts. It will also enhance the capacities of selected African scientists to generate appropriate climate-relevant information and disseminate these through appropriate channels to intended end-users. Expected outputs from the project include trained and knowledgeable African climate scientists; climate related tools and data such as early warning systems, climate information systems, downscaled climate models and scenarios, and overall skills improvement of end users to use climate information in development planning. The project will be implemented over a three year period, from 2010 to 2012 at a cost of UA 24.23 million.