Fact Sheet: SERVIR West Africa 2
This fact sheet provides and overview SERVIR West Africa phase 2 implementation, which includes a consortium of seven regional institutions in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Mali and Senegal.
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This fact sheet provides and overview SERVIR West Africa phase 2 implementation, which includes a consortium of seven regional institutions in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Mali and Senegal.
The Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Assessments Service assesses climate change impacts on vulnerable communities, water resources, and ecosystems in order to better address resilience building activities.
The Land Use Land Cover and Change Mapping Service was designed to provide governments with data, tools, and skills to better understand relevant intervention actions related to land conservation and management, ensuring that land resources can be efficiently monitored and regulated.
The Regional Cropland Assessment and Monitoring Service seeks to provide timely information for food security assessments through the development of national and regional crop monitors in East Africa.
The Regional Stream Flow Monitoring and Forecasting Service was designed to provide real-time streamflow forecasts for several watersheds in East Africa and bias-corrected satellite precipitation products to enable the timely prediction and monitoring of extreme events.
The Satellite-Based Water Quality Monitoring Service leverages Earth observing satellite information to assess historical water quality changes of in-land trans-boundary lakes.
Agriculture is the backbone of economies in East African countries such as Tanzania. To succeed they need more information about droughts and dry spells, yet getting that information to farmers remains a challenge.
E-link Consult Limited is an environmental consultancy firm based in Tanzania with experience in natural resources assessment and management, socioeconomic analysis, forestry assessment, agriculture, food security, livelihoods analysis, and climate change adaptation and mitigation.
The Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) in Nairobi and its partner organization, SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa, hosted two-day stakeholders’ and consultations workshops from 23-31 May 2016 in Uganda, Rwanda, and Tanzania, respectively.
Deforestation and habitat fragmentation in the tropics represent major threats to biodiversity and contribute to carbon emissions.