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Strengthening linkages between AMESD and SERVIR-Africa

Dr. Tesfaye Korme, SERVIR-Africa Project Lead at RCMRD, was invited to present the SERVIR-Africa project at the 1st African Monitoring of the Environment for Sustainable Development (AMESD) Forum in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 1-4 December 2009. The theme of the Forum was: “Towards a Pan African Partnership and Networking for the monitoring of the Environment by Satellite in African”. It was organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Conservation of Nature and Tourism of DRC (MECNT), and the International Commission for Congo-Ubangui-Sangha Basin (CICOS). The Forum also was attended by representatives of the AUC, the European Commision, UN institutions, international organisations, NGOs, research institutions and universities, among others.

The Forum aimed to put in place adequate networks within Africa and in between international and African institutions for the effective development and use of earth observation data for better management and monitoring of the African environment. The general idea was to gather community members having a link with AMESD or some interest in positioning themselves with respect to the AMESD programme. The invitation process of key people (sponsored or not) and of distribution of the conference announcement was conceived in order to create and build a community and to act in subsequent steps of the program (2nd Forum and beyond) to sustain this community.

The AMESD project aims to provide real time and accurate satellite data information in decision making process in the field of environment for poverty alleviation and sustainable development.

Forum presentations are available online.

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