During the second session of the GMES Continental workshop which started this morning March 27, 2024 in Nairobi, each of the 6 GMES Consortia implementing Natural Resources and Water services had the opportunity to present and give updates on their various activities being implemented in order to meet the needs of the users, and which are being monitored by the indicators of the second GMES&Africa project’s Logical framework. The representative of the North Africa Consortium presented the activities dealing with the main pillars of the project and related to the following outputs of the program: policy and institutional framework, infrastructure and data, information services, capacity building, knowledge management, outreach, uptake and dissemination. In 2022 and 2023, the North Africa Consortium worked to: (i) involve more than 15 national and/or regional policy initiatives and programs in the use of the GMES&Africa products and services which contain the EO data/indicators, (ii) develop geoportals (MISBAR, MISLAND, GuetCrop) in order to support decision making (crop mapping, crop growth monitoring, agricultural campaign and yields forecast, fire monitoring, degraded lands monitoring, water resources monitoring, natural capital estimate, etc., (iii), set up and valorize the E-Stations provided by the project, (iv) train users to ensure the ownership and uptake of the services/products in response to their needs, (v) perform outreach and dissemination actions to better promote the usage services. In a second presentation, the OSS representative gave an update on the Consortium’s Joint Implementation Network (JIN) for Land Degradation Monitoring in Africa, which recorded to date 276 experts (22% women) from 35 African countries and 3 Non-African countries. He explained the progress made so far and the roadmap for the finalization of the Continental service of land degradation monitoring, which could see its official launch on June 2024.
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