SERVIR Profile of Faith Mitheu
Meet Faith Mitheu, Water and Hydroclimatic Disasters Lead for RCMRD/SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa.
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Meet Faith Mitheu, Water and Hydroclimatic Disasters Lead for RCMRD/SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa.
USAID and NASA are supporting women scientists around the world to use science and technology to improve resilience and raise the visibility of women in science.
As part of NASA's Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES 2018) omnibus solicitation, NASA Applied Sciences Program is requesting proposals for a new SERVIR Applied Sciences Team (AST) to support the SERVIR program in co-developing science applications with SERVIR hubs for international development through the use of Earth observations.
In 2005, NASA scientists and USAID staff saw the potential for a powerful collaboration between their agencies and launched SERVIR.
For many years, pastoralists in Northern Kenya have been affected by Opuntia stricta, an invasive cactus native to the Caribbean region and commonly referred to as prickly pear.
SERVIR improves local and regional capacity to provide tools, products, and services that empower decision makers to better address critical issues related to food security, water resources, natural disasters, land use, and extreme weather. Building on thirteen years of experience, SERVIR has grown in its geographical reach and has adapted its approach based on lessons learned.
The extensive arid and semi-arid lands of northern Kenya are home to a variety of communities. Livelihoods are predominantly livestock based, with limited small-scale crop production. The productivity of the rangelands has been in decline, mainly due to poor management practices.
RCMRD’s Lilian Wangui, Food Security and Agriculture Lead, and Rose Waswa, Remote Sensing Technician, were interviewed on a Kenyan national TV channel on August 15.
SERVIR hubs are at the forefront in developing high-quality water information, tools, products, and services that enable partner countries to monitor, measure, and report on water resources and changes, and to better predict and manage water-related disasters.
Since 2005, an ambitious collaboration between NASA and USAID has been quietly but steadily building the capacity of scientific organizations, government officials, emergency responders, and communities across the developing world to better handle environmental challenges.