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    Outreach and Awareness raising

    This pillar is to ensure that adequate awareness and outreach activities are undertaken to better engage policymakers, administrators, entrepreneurs, scientists and civil society at all levels in using EO and geospatial data and information.

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GA Continental Workshop on Water and Natural Resources

GMES and Africa partners rally to weave together solutions t…

11 October 2024

A joint initiative of the African Union Commission and the European Commission, GMES and Africa aims to address the growing needs of African countries to access and use Earth Observation (EO) data for the implementation of sustainable development policies, management of the environment and natural resources, as well as monitoring of humanitarian operations in Afr…
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RCMRD explaining the way they work to the attendants

1st GMES and AFRICA Consortia Information Exchange and Techn…

11 October 2024

The Consortia will contribute at the local, national and regional levels to the GMES and AFRICA Programme. Hence, on one hand it is important for them to well understand they work under one banner, the Programme main strategies, but also to know each other activities, to visualize possible areas of common interest where resources can be shared. In this respect, t…
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Experiences and results of users of Earth Observation data f…

11 October 2024

Experiences and results of users of Earth Observation data from Sentinel2 tabled for discussion among scientific and research communities in Rabat, Morocco.It was discussed during the international workshop on the Contribution of Sentinel2 Satellite Imagery for Research and applications for managing Environmental resources in Africa. The workshop ran from 06 to 08 February 2018, in Rabat, Morocco.GMES and Africa Support Programme is a pan-African Earth observation programme that uses Earth Observation data and information from Sentinel…
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Establishment of Humanitarian and Early Warning Mechanisms i…

11 October 2024

The African Union Commission and various stakeholders and partners have been discussing the establishment of integrated and continental Humanitarian and Early Warning Mechanisms in Africa, at a workshop which ran from 26 to 28 February 2018, in Nairobi, Kenya. The theme of the workshop was “African Union: A Decade of Humanitarian Action (2016-2025)”.The GMES & Africa Programme Coordinator and Space Science expert, Dr. Tidiane Ouattara, briefed participants on the potential contribution of Earth Observation through the GMES & Africa…
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GMES & Africa discusses usage and applications of Copern…

11 October 2024

Experts from Africa and Europe discusses how the Global Monitoring of Environment and Security & Africa Support Programme can adapt and use Earth Observation data from Sentinel satellites.The discussion is going on in a workshop organized by the Copernicus and the GMES & Africa programme for the upcoming three consecutive days (19-21 February 2018) in Accra, Ghana.GMES &Africa Support Programme is the African Union Commission’s Earth Observation flagship programme and the key component of the EU-AU Partnership (Lisbon, 2007) in the…
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GMES & Africa's capacity development training works…

11 October 2024

The Global Monitoring for Environment and Security and Africa (GMES and Africa), kick starts capacity development training workshop for the thirteen consortia of institutions that have been officially awarded grants to implement the GMES & Africa at regional level in Africa. The overall objective of the training workshop, that runs from 29 November to 01 D…
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GMES and AFRICA participates in the AMCOMET Africa Hydromet…

11 October 2024

This inaugural African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET) – Africa Hydromet Forum was held in Addis Ababa to provide strategic insight towards Africa’s climate and disaster resilience through improvement of hydrological, meteorological and early-warning services.    Co-hosted by the African Union Commission and the Federal Democratic Republic of E…
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A key governance pillar of GMES and Africa holds its inaugur…

11 October 2024

The GMES & Africa Policy Coordination and Advisory Committee (PCAC) has held its inaugural ordinary session in Abidjan, Côte d’ivoire, from 4 to 6 September 2017. PCAC is a key governance pillar of GMES & Africa.   Space is an important enabler for Africa’s sustainable development as well as for the advancement of Science and Technology on the continent…