So far in #WISEREWSA we have been co-producing thunderstorm alerts with urban populations-but today in #Lusaka we are engaging with other sectors to see how nowcasts could be useful to them #UKAidWiSER @KulimaIDS

Good morning #Lusaka! Looking forward to a day introducing weather information to more Kanyama residents and planning for the #WISEREWSA ‘king size’ testbed of storm nowcasting in the 2024/5 rainy season #UKAidWISER @KulimaIDS

Sunrise in Maputo on the last day of the #WISEREWSA co-production and testbed co-design workshop. Lots of ambition and tangible plans to realize the aim of producing and inclusively communicating thunderstorm early warnings throughout the next rainy season #UKAidWISER

Full house today in Maputo as we workshop with intermediary organizations how in #WISEREWSA we can scale access to co-produced early warning alerts of thunderstorms #UKAidWISER

Peggy from ZMD highlights how #Zambia has improved their forecasts after the #WISEREWSA testbed and also expanded their communication channels, with plans for audio forecast messages to reach people with visual disabilities #UKAidWISER

Pedro from INAM explains how he trained community observers to understand current weather forecasts. The next stage is to adapt forecasts to make them more accessible and inclusive based on feedback from community observers-this is key to the #WISEREWSA #coproduction #UKAidWISER

Yesterday it was a privilege to meet the men and women from Boane, many of whom have disabilities, who have acted as community observers in our #WISEREWSA project, providing feedback on forecast validity and presentation #UKAidWISER

Today we met in the Boane municipal offices in #Mozambique and I was glad to see lots of ramps to accommodate our #WISEREWSA community observers who have mobility difficulties #UKAidWISER

Appropriate to be in #Mozambique during this event as part of the #WISEREWSA project, which is co-producing nowcast-based early warning alerts to be widely accessible with a particular focus on women and people with disability #EW4ALL #UKAidWISER

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Manuel Francisco from INAM explains the format of testbed forecasts and alerts that will be circulated using new nowcasting techniques in the next ‘king size’ #WISEREWSA testbed from a October to April #UKAidWISER

#WISEREWSA user engagement lead Gilda Monjane @KulimaIDS explains live on @MocambiqueRadio how people with disabilities have been integrated into local disaster risk reduction committees in Boane #Mozambique #UKAidWISER

Today #WISEREWSA is in Boane to raise awareness among DRR committees of how weather forecasts are generated and how they can be used. Decision/user first-we started by listening to how weather affects people’s lives #UKAidWISER

Gilda Monjane @KulimaIDS outlines how peri urban community members in #Mozambique, including people with disabilities, are now actively receiving and contributing feedback on weather forecasts #EW4ALL #WiSEREWSA #UKAidWiSER

Nico Kroese from @SAWeatherServic highlights that exposure to similar heavy rainfall in #Durban in April and May 2022 led to vastly different outcomes-because of early warning and willingness to act #EW4ALL #UKAidWISER

Estelle de Coning from @WMO outlines the 4 pillars of #EW4ALL and reminds that no 4-preparedness and response capabilities-should actually be no 1, because without it the potential of early warnings is not realised #UKAidWISER #WISEREWSA

Permanent secretary in Mozambique’s Ministry of Transport and Communication, Ambrósio Sitoe, reiterates the commitments to achieving early warning for all #EW4ALL #UKAidWISER

Director of #Mozambique National Institute of Meteorology Dr Adérito Amaruge welcomes around 40 people to the #WISEREWSA engagement day in Maputo #UKAidWISER

On my way to Maputo and looking forward to two weeks of stocktaking and planning with my #WISEREWSA colleagues on how to expand the reach of inclusive early warning systems-focusing on nowcasts of thunderstorms in #Mozambique #SouthAfrica #Zambia #UKAidWISER

Our co-production process has a particular focus on inclusion. The lady in the circle is our fantastic sign language interpreter who enabled those with hearing difficulties to fully participate #UKAidWISER #WISEREWSA @ZambiaWeather @KulimaIDS

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Fascinating week in #Zambia-first workshop of our co-production process for nowcast-based early warning alerts. Lots of interest from folks in Kanyama in #weather information @ZambiaWeather @KulimaIDS #UKAidWISER

Excited to continue the testing of our user needs survey as part of the #UKAidWISER Early Warnings for Southern Africa project-today we’re in Kanyama in Lusaka #Zambia, seeking insights into the potential for nowcast thunderstorm alerts

Happening now! Marita and Miriam from the #UKAidWISER project are presenting our experience of scoping needs on DRR, disability and gender at the Adaptation Network event to celebrate #WomensDay in South Africa

Mini @future_climate reunion as folks from UMFULA, FRACTAL, AMMA2050, IMPALA and HyCrystal are all involved in one project under #UkAidWISER phase 3. Nice to see you Doug, Chris, Anna, John and Diana! 😃

ICYMI: open access paper "Defining metrics for monitoring and evaluating the impact of co-production in climate services" by authors from @future_climate #UKAidWISER and @SHEAR_Programme

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Read more about how principles of good co-production were variously applied by @FRACTALproject @AMMA_2050 @FCFAHycristal and #UMFULA@future_climate #UKAidWISER

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ICYMI ‘Addressing power imbalances in co-production’ based on reflections from @future_climate #UMFULA @FRACTALproject #AMMA2050 #UKAidWISER

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Well said Anna Steynor @CSAGUCT For more on equitable partnerships check out the @future_climate #UKAidWISER manual on co-production

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Improving #foodsystems is intricately linked with improved #climateinformation which projects like @african_swift @future_climate and #UKAidWISER are trying to develop

Effective climate services involve more than meteorologists to reach their full potential Katharine Vincent, Jemimah Maina, Fiona Percy, Emma Visman and Calistus Wachana describe a range of projects and approaches that are bringing weather and climate information to people - so that they can make more informed decisions in their daily lives, in what's called 'co-production' of climate services.

New on @cdknetwork "Effective #climateservices involve more than meteorologists – to reach their full potential" - on the recent #UKAidWISER W2SIP co-production peer learning workshop @CARE

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THIS AFTERNOON! Anna Steynor @CSAGUCT, Emma Visman, Suzanne Carter and I will be talking principles for co-production of weather and #climateservices @future_climate #UMFULA #UKAidWISER @KulimaIDS

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