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Re-balancing climate services to inform climate-resilient planning – A conceptual framework and illustrations from sub-Saharan Africa

Research article

by Katharine Vincent, Declan Conway, Andrew J. Dougill, Joanna Pardoe, Emma Archer van Garderen, Ajay Gajanan Bhave, Rebecka Henriksson Malinga, Neha Mittal, David Mkwambisi, Estelle Rouhaud and Dorothy Tembo-Nhlema

on 10 July, 2020

Making climate-resilient planning and adaptation decisions is, in part, contingent on the use of climate information. Growing attention has been... Read more

The current and future climate of central and southern Africa: What we have learnt and what it means for decision-making in Malawi and Tanzania

Policy publication on 7 October, 2019

This brief summarises the main lessons from four years of the UMFULA project – led by the Grantham Research Institute, UMFULA has addressed questions of climate science, climate impacts and decision-making processes for adaptation in central and southern Africa, with focuses on Malawi and Tanzania. Read more

Creating useful and usable weather and climate information – insights from Participatory Scenario Planning in Malawi

Working paper

by Dorothy Tembo-Nhlema, Katharine Vincent and Rebecka Henriksson Malinga

on 9 September, 2019

This paper outlines experiences with Participatory Scenario Planning (PSP), which has been used in Malawi as a method to bring together producers and users of weather and climate information to co-produce sector-specific advisories of weather information to make it both useful and usable to the different user groups, including farmers. Read more

Designing a process for assessing climate resilience in Tanzania’s Rufiji river basin

Policy publication

by Declan Conway and Christian Siderius

on 7 August, 2019

This brief introduces the concept of climate information and reasons for its use in major decisions about water, energy and agriculture, including new infrastructure investments. Read more

Climate information needs in Southern Africa: a review

Working paper

by Daleen Lötter, Claire Davis, Emma Archer van Garderen, Katharine Vincent, Joanna Pardoe, Mark Tadross, Willem Landman, Sabine Stuart-Hill and Graham Jewitt

on 2 July, 2018

There are currently challenges to generating climate services relating both to the supply of climate science and its application. This paper from the UMFULA project reviews the current availability of climate information in Southern Africa and assesses the requirements of a variety of end users in the region, highlighting the importance of creating user-tailored climate services. Read more