Event Information

We invite you to a joint webinar "Users and Producers of CIS in sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring Roles and Needs" hosted by BRACED and the USAID Learning Agenda for Climate Services in sub-Saharan Africa. This webinar will address two key emerging issues in the field of climate information services (CIS): 1) what we know and don't know about the users of CIS and their climate information needs; and 2) what role NGOs, as increasingly important actors in the field, can play in the production, communication and uptake of that information. Participants will explore a proposed learning agenda for identifying and filling knowledge gaps related to CIS users and their needs, and the role of NGOs in meeting those needs.

Findings from two papers will be shared: 

1. Identifying Climate Information Services Users and Their Needs in sub-Saharan Africa: A Learning Agenda, which was written under the Mercy Corps-led, USAID-funded Climate Information Services Research Initiative. 
2. Climate services for resilience: the changing roles of NGOs in Burkina Faso, which was supported by the DFID-funded BRACED programme.

Presenters

• Edward R. Carr is a tenured professor and director of the International Development, Community, and Environment Department at Clark University, and a member of the USAID-funded Climate Information Services Research Initiative. Ed has held numerous academic and professional positions in the world of development including working for 12 years in the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina, and before that was an AAAS fellow serving at the United States Agency for International Development. He is the author of more than 50 publications and reports on issues of development, adaptation to climate change, and the changing global environment.
• Blane Harvey is an interdisciplinary scholar at McGill University’s Faculty of Education, working across the social and natural sciences on the themes of learning, environmental change and sustainable development. Blane is interested in how facilitated processes of social learning and knowledge co-production can support transdisciplinary collaboration. He is a Research Associate with the Risk and Resilience team at the Overseas Development Institute (UK) and the Resilience programme of the International Institute for Sustainable Development.