RCMRD

Dr. Jolly Wasambo, Africa Technical Coordinator for the programme Monitoring of Environment and Security in Africa (MESA) was at RCMRD to engage with technical teams and familiarise himself with other operations of the Centre. MESA is joint initiative of the European Union (EU) and Africa Union Commission (AUC) as a follow-on programme of African Monitoring of Environment for Sustainable Development (AMESD). MESA will be implemented by the AUC and will run until 2018, with the objective of addressing the need for improved management of natural resources and environmental security towards sustainable development in Africa at continental, regional and national levels, including all Sub-Saharan African countries.
It is clearly oriented toward the strengthening of capacities for the use of Earth observation in Africa, with a dedicated focus on climate and environmental applications. Among other activities, MESA will secure the maintenance and upgrade of the EUMETCast reception stations deployed by AMESD and support the development of operational services based on Earth observation data, primarily EUMETSAT data and products.

RCMRD will provide technical backstopping services together with IGAD Climate and Prediction Application Centre (ICPAC) for the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Regional Economic Community of the AUC.

Dr. Jolly Wasambo, was accompanied by Messers Fortunate Muyambi and Kenneth Mwangi both of IGAD - AMESD Project

This joint initiative on capacity building towards sustainable Disaster Management using Earth Obsrvation Data was promoted by UN-SPIDER and executed by RCMRD in collaboration with Remote Sensing Authority (RSA) of Sudan was held from May 6, 2013 to May 9, 2013 at the University of Khartoum.
Participants were from Sudanese Ministries of Agriculture; Humanitarian Affairs; Interior-Civil Defense; Health; as well as Agencies of Meteorology; Information; UNDP and UN-WFP

Colleagues from the Kenya National Space Secretariat were today at the Centre to engage with senior management on areas of collaboration as part of activities for the current reporting year.
In light of Kenya Government devolution of governance, the Secretariat is keen on engaging with chief officers in the devolved units to sensitize them on the role of Space Technology vis-a-vis Earth Observation in effective planning, management and policy implementation  for appropriate governance.
The team was led by Dr. Kimani Njoroge