CREWS resources contributes to the improvement of the Government of Chad’s early warning services for drought, flooding and other severe climate and weather-related events by enhancing the capacities of national services in charge of meteorology and climate, hydrology, civil protection, and food security and piloting selected products, which could be replicated and scaled up by larger investment projects. To this scope, CREWS resources leverages additional financing in the area of hydromet and early warning systems by development partners, such as the World Bank Group, the Green Climate Fund and others from within the Africa Hydromet Program.
Key Deliverables
- Improve seasonal and sub seasonal forecasting and decision support for agriculture and pastoralism at the national level
- Develop a capacity building plan and increased capacity in climate prediction, hazard detection, monitoring, forecasting and warning, multi-hazard early warning systems, flood forecasting, climate data management, GIS and remote sensing, operational meteorology and hydrology.
- Pilot products for EWS for flood and food security in selected areas
- Develop a training programme on disaster risk reduction with an emphasis on early warning; and institutional support and training in contingency planning of DGPC and other civil protection stakeholders
