The Global Monitoring for Environment and Security & Africa (GMES & Africa) 2nd Phase will organize an East Africa Regional Workshop in, Kampala, Uganda, from 28th to 30th September 2022. The workshop has been organised by the two (2) East African Consortiums i.e., IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) and Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) both based at Nairobi Kenya and will bring together partners, AUC team, focal points, private sectors, International and Regional institutions as well as other relevant stakeholders.  

About GMES & Africa

GMES & Africa is a continent-wide initiative on Earth Observation resulting from the longstanding cooperation between Africa and Europe. The first phase was concluded in 2021, and the second phase continues to focus on the two services namely; Water and Natural Resources Services and Marine and Coastal Services.  The overall objective of the GMES & Africa project in the East African region is to promote a more sustainable long-term management of natural resources in the East Africa region by improving policy-makers’, planners’, scientists’, businesses, private sector and citizens’ capacities to design, implement, and monitor national, regional and decision-makers through the use of Earth Observation data and derived information.

Objectives of the workshop

The Regional Workshop serves as an exclusive platform for elevating discussions with partners, stakeholders and users on project impacts at the regional level. They are also designed for engaging policy and decision makers as well as other actors in dialogue and networking, discuss cooperation and joint implementation of activities of common interests (Data access, capacity building) for the East African Consortia, and collect feedback and further needs on the developed products and services. The workshop participants will be drawn from the following countries; Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania & Uganda, 

 Among the expected outcomes from the Regional Workshop are a developed road map of  common implémentation activities, engaged stakeholders, and the user needs and feedback on different aspects of the Project documented. It is expected to reinforce regional exchanges and stimulate cross fertilization of ideas among stakeholders.

Lead Consortiums

ICPAC is the consortium leader in implementing GMES and Africa in the East African Region under the action titled “Monitoring Natural Resources and Food Security in the East African Region”.  ICPAC is developing 3 services “Natural Habitats Monitoring and Assessment, Tropical Forest Surveillance, Monitoring and assessment and Rangeland Seasonal Monitoring Early Warning and Assessment”. Read More: http://gmes.icpac.net

RCMRD is the consortium leader in implementing GMES and Africa in the East African Region under the action titled “Land Degradation Monitoring and Assessment (LDMA), Wetlands Monitoring and Assessment (WMA) and Open Geographical Regional Reference Vector Database for water and AEZ (OGRRVD). Read More: https://gmesgeoportal.rcmrd.org