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Points of Contact: Phoebe Oduor, poduor@rcmrd.org & Byron Anangwe, banangwe@rcmrd.org 29 May 2019 / Geneva, Switzerland

AfriGEO Initiative …

Who is doing What Where

Unique Value provided by the GEO Flagship, Initiative, or Community Activity

Framework for strengthening partnerships within Africa : AfriGEO foster intra-continental partnership and connects Africa to international partners and programmes; Coordination framework and platform for Africa’s participation in GEO: understanding who is doing what where? Identifying capabilities, synergies and linkages and reducing duplication. User Requirements “Co-design enabler ”: gathering user requirements, translating policy needs to

• bservations requirements by scientific community to satellite specifications; and establishing

communities of practice; Pan African initiative to raise awareness on EO : raising awareness on the value of EO, availability of resources and tools to the EO community and engaging with policy makers; Infrastructure: AfriGEO is working on a coordinated EO data acquisition strategy for Africa Gateway into Africa for international partners Centralized capacity building to guide implementation and adoption of earth observation to address key SBAs

Key Results Achieved in 2017-2019

• Coordination of thematic areas
• Identification of Climate Change Adaptation as a thematic areas
• Communication and marketing plan developed / implemented
• Increased African resources, 2 regional centres joined GEO
• Strengthened partnerships with other GEO programmes and initiatives

in Africa (GMES & Africa, SERVIR, GEOGLOWS, GEO-CRADLE etc.)

• Hosting of the Symposium:
• 2017 in Sunyani, Ghana
• 2018 in Libreville, Gabon
• Host for 2019 Symposium identified, RCMRD in Nairobi, Kenya.
• New host of the Secretariat RCMRD in Nairobi

Key Milestones and/or Deliverables for 2020-2022

• Increased Membership of countries to GEO
• Downscaling of GEO Initiatives:
• Digital Earth Africa (RCMRD will be hosting the one of the DEA hubs)
• GEOGLAM- already supporting this and will continue to provide support to the countries to enhance

food security in Africa and Early warning

• GEO LDN- want to engage to ensure the region benefits and understand the economic benefit of

knowing and utilizing the capacity and data that will be coming from this.

• GEODARMA- This will be key in ensuring reduced DRR and we’ve already started engaging on this;
• Capacity Building- addressing regional gaps
• Support for STEM for Women and the youth through the space challenge
• Coordinated push to utilize more open source data, web services and Cloud
• Resource Mobilization and collaboration to support implementation of the activities proposed.

Good Practices and/or Lessons Learned

• 1. Importance of establishing a clear governance structure; need to

have different participants at the different levels - technical team cannot then also make strategic decisions.

• 2. Sharing of lessons learnt and solutions with other Regional GEOs

important - though our regions and needs differ- people are the same, and we aim to coordinate human activities;

• 3. Role of Leadership is critical, beyond meetings but in advocacy and
• pening the doors for the initiative at high level platforms

Requests for Assistance

• Introduce new host of the secretariat into existing networks;
• Use AFriGEO as a coordination and engagement forum for Africa

focused initiatives: co-design and co-development

• Flagships and Initiatives actively engaging AfriGEO
• Opportunities such as the AWS
• Include in GEO resource mobilisation strategy
• Resource commitment from African Members and PO
• Building capacity to downscale the global GEO agenda and

Contact

AfriGEO Points of Contact: Phoebe Oduor, poduor@rcmrd.org & Byron Anangwe, banangwe@rcmrd.org