Subnational Training on Use of the Kenya Meteorological Department’s ENACTS Maprooms: Central Kenya

Improved availability and quality of climate data and information has been necessary but not sufficient in the development of effective, decision-relevant, sustainable, and locally-led climate services for the agricultural sector in Kenya. In particular, while the Kenya Meteorological Department (KM...

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Autores principales: Ruirie, Onesmus, Grossi, Amanda
Formato: Informe técnico
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135340
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description Improved availability and quality of climate data and information has been necessary but not sufficient in the development of effective, decision-relevant, sustainable, and locally-led climate services for the agricultural sector in Kenya. In particular, while the Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD) has long produced high quality information available at high resolution, this has not been enough to ensure that it is easily accessed, understood, or able to be used at the sectoral level in decisionmaking for agriculture. Rather, intentional efforts to both promote the translation (contextualization) and transfer (communication) of this information alongside capacity building for its use have been needed. An important platform for facilitating the access and wider use of climate information in decisionmaking by governments, as well as the public and private sectors, is the IRI’s Climate Data Library. The Data Library is a powerful and freely accessible online platform that allows users to view, analyse, download, and share hundreds of terabytes of multidisciplinary climate-related data through a standard web browser (Blumenthal et al., 2014). ICT solutions like this and especially co-created map visualizations such as the IRI’s interactive “Maproom” visuals and graphs of climate data can play a large role in making climate information more usable by translating past, present, or future conditions into expected impacts and management advisories for different decision-makers (Christel et al., 2018; Daron et al., 2015).
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spelling CGSpace1353402025-11-11T16:49:22Z Subnational Training on Use of the Kenya Meteorological Department’s ENACTS Maprooms: Central Kenya Ruirie, Onesmus Grossi, Amanda capacity development climate information services training meteorology Improved availability and quality of climate data and information has been necessary but not sufficient in the development of effective, decision-relevant, sustainable, and locally-led climate services for the agricultural sector in Kenya. In particular, while the Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD) has long produced high quality information available at high resolution, this has not been enough to ensure that it is easily accessed, understood, or able to be used at the sectoral level in decisionmaking for agriculture. Rather, intentional efforts to both promote the translation (contextualization) and transfer (communication) of this information alongside capacity building for its use have been needed. An important platform for facilitating the access and wider use of climate information in decisionmaking by governments, as well as the public and private sectors, is the IRI’s Climate Data Library. The Data Library is a powerful and freely accessible online platform that allows users to view, analyse, download, and share hundreds of terabytes of multidisciplinary climate-related data through a standard web browser (Blumenthal et al., 2014). ICT solutions like this and especially co-created map visualizations such as the IRI’s interactive “Maproom” visuals and graphs of climate data can play a large role in making climate information more usable by translating past, present, or future conditions into expected impacts and management advisories for different decision-makers (Christel et al., 2018; Daron et al., 2015). 2023-12 2023-12-13T17:26:32Z 2023-12-13T17:26:32Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/135340 en Open Access application/pdf Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa Ruirie O, Grossi A. 2023. Subnational Training on Use of the Kenya Meteorological Department’s ENACTS Maprooms: Central Kenya. AICCRA Workshop Report. Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA).
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Subnational Training on Use of the Kenya Meteorological Department’s ENACTS Maprooms: Central Kenya
title Subnational Training on Use of the Kenya Meteorological Department’s ENACTS Maprooms: Central Kenya
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title_full_unstemmed Subnational Training on Use of the Kenya Meteorological Department’s ENACTS Maprooms: Central Kenya
title_short Subnational Training on Use of the Kenya Meteorological Department’s ENACTS Maprooms: Central Kenya
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topic capacity development
climate information services
training
meteorology
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