In March 2017, a training was provided in Rwanda as part of the Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture project, a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded initiative that seeks to improve agricultural planning and food security management in the face of a variable and changing cl...
Corral, John del
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Rose, Alison
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[Training in development and use of Growing Season Onset and Downscaled Seasonal Forecast Maprooms, Kigali, Rwanda, March 2017]
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Training in development and use of Growing Season Onset and Downscaled Seasonal Forecast Maprooms, Kigali, Rwanda, March 2017
This report describes training activities in Kigali, Rwanda, January 2018, led by the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI)’s John del Corral. The training visit was part of the Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture project – a four-year initiative (2016-2019) funded by...
Meteo Rwanda, in collaboration with the International Research Institute for Climate and
Society (IRI), has implemented the first phase of the ENACTS (Enhancing National Climate
Services) initiative. The ENACTS initiative brings climate knowledge into national decisionmaking
by improving availabi...
Dinku ,T.
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Corral, John del
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[Workshop report: Training program on ENACTS climate time series, data library and maprooms, Kigali, Rwanda]
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Workshop report: Training program on ENACTS climate time series, data library and maprooms, Kigali, Rwanda
This report describes a training visit to the Rwanda Meteorological Agency (Meteo Rwanda),
21-29 July 2016, aimed at increasing staff technical capacity to understand and the ENACTS
10-day, monthly, and newly created daily data. Objectives were to: (a) train Meteo Rwanda
staff on ENACTS data, the...
Corral, John del
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[ENACTS, Data Library, Maproom and GIS Training at Rwanda Meteorological Agency, Kigali, Rwanda, July 2016]
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ENACTS, Data Library, Maproom and GIS Training at Rwanda Meteorological Agency, Kigali, Rwanda, July 2016
Decision-relevant information on the past climate, recent trends, likely future trajectories, anomalies and associated impacts is a prerequisite for decision-making at different levels. Unfortunately, climate information is often not available or, where it does exist, is inaccessible to those tha...
Dinku, Tufa
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Thomson, Madeleine C.
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Cousin, Remi
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Corral, John del
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Ceccato, Pietro
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Hansen, James
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Connor, Stephen J.
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[Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) for development in Africa]
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Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) for development in Africa
There were a large number of active meteorological stations in Rwanda prior to the mid‐1990s and since around 2010. However, from around the time of the Rwandan genocide in 1994 throughout the late 2000s, the number of active stations was greatly reduced. To address temporal and spatial gaps in m...
Siebert, Asher
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Dinku, Tufa
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Vuguziga, Floribert
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Twahirwa, Anthony
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Kagabo, Desire M.
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Corral, John del
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Robertson, Andrew W.
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[Evaluation of ENACTS-Rwanda: A new multi-decade, high resolution rainfall and temperature data set—Climatology]
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Evaluation of ENACTS-Rwanda: A new multi-decade, high resolution rainfall and temperature data set—Climatology