ACPC, in collaboration with its partners, has been at the forefront of efforts to promote climate change knowledge and awareness across the Africa continent. In 2016 for example, the ACPC convened a training of trainers (ToT) event on “Mainstreaming Climate Information and Services (CIS) into legislation, development policies and plans”, which was attended by legislators and youth groups drawn from across the continent. In tandem with this activity, the Centre, under its then DFID-funded Weather and Climate Information Services for Africa (WISER) programme commissioned a collaboration with the UNCC: Learn Partnership to co-develop a self-paced online learning module on “Climate information and services”. The learning was used to undertake climate information services training of civil society in Kenya, parliamentarians in Pretoria, Uganda and Sierra Leone, media in Cameroun and agriculture experts in Senegal. The online module has been completed by over 6,000 learners globally.
Climate change reporting involves engagement with stakeholders, acquisition of knowledge, lessons and key messages, which form the basis for development of knowledge products, packaging and dissemination. The media in this respect forms a critical link in channeling information and knowledge to various constituencies and communities that are increasingly ravaged by extreme climate and weather events. At policy level, heightened climate change awareness of public officials facilitates integration of climate policies incorporating demand-led, evidence-based information into economic and development planning. In most parts of the continent, the level of skills and awareness of the drivers of climate change remains inadequate to respond to the widespread impacts of extreme weather events, such as droughts, hurricanes and heat strokes.
Against the above background ECA in collaboration with PACJA is calling for applications by African women climate change media practitioners for an opportunity to attend the two weeks training course.
Contact Information
Training and Research Division
Tel: +221 33 829 55 00 / Fax: +221 33 822 29 64
Email: catherine.lalyre@un.org with copy to diaw4@un.org, lou.zah@un.org and murayac@un.org
N.B.:IDEP strongly encourages and supports the participation of suitably qualified female officials in its capacity development and training programme.
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