Collaboration for Impact: Role of ACMAD in Africa

Please join us for a Technical Coordination Initiative (TCI) Lunch Time Learning Session featuring the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD).

Speaker

Dr Ousmane Ndiaye
Director General of the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development

About the session

ACMAD plays a key role within the WMO Integrated Processing and Prediction System (WIPPS) as a Regional Climate Centre (RCC) with an Africa continental coverage, supporting the subregional RCCs in West (AGRHYMET), Central (CAPC-AC), Horn/East (ICPAC), Southern (SADC-CSC) and South-West Indian Ocean (SWIO) regions. 

ACMAD also supports National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) for advisories, as well as other regional partners (including African Union Commission AUC, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA, Pan-African Farmers' Organization PAFO, etc.) with climate services, forecasting, capacity development, and technical guidance.

During this session, Dr Ndiaye will provide an overview of ACMAD’s evolving role and discuss how projects and partnerships strengthen its ability to support countries across Africa and respond to the needs of WMO Members.

This session will touch on a range of projects / activities

Led by WMO

• CREWS NMHS institutional strengthening
• NORCAP NMHS digital transformation
• Wellcome Trust, Rockefeller Foundation climate health
• ClimSA in relation with ACMAD RCC functions
• Fondation Lombard Odier pilot project for humanitarian support (Technical support by WCM)

Or led by partners

• AMHEWAS
• EU SEWA
• WISER PASS

We look forward to seeing you there.