AGRHYMET RCC-WAS Scales Up Regional Forecasting Capacity with Dual Training Tracks for National Meteorological and Hydrological Services

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04 November 2025

The AGRHYMET Regional Climate Centre for West Africa and the Sahel (RCC-WAS), under the designation process by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), has successfully launched a comprehensive training initiative to modernize seasonal forecasting capabilities across the region. This dual-track program—targeting national meteorological and hydrological services as well as river basin organizations (RBO)—marks a strategic leap toward operationalizing objective, AI-enhanced sub-seasonal and seasonal (s2s) forecasting systems in line with WMO Decision 9 (EC-72) and the 2020 guidelines on reproducibility and transparency.

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Following the successful Phase, I meteorological training in late 2024, AGRHYMET convened Phase II in October-2025, deepening expertise in PyCPT, machine learning, and sub-seasonal forecasting among 28 experts from 17 NMHSs. Building on this momentum, AGRHYMET launched a parallel action-training for National Hydrological Services (NHSs) and rivers basin organisations (RBO) on October 7, 2025, with a one-month on-the-job trianing program focused on seasonal hydrological forecasting.

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