Climate Research Scientist from the IGAD Centre for Climate Prediction and Application Titike Bahaga speaking at a five-day multi-sectoral workshop that brought together stakeholders from various sectors that was held for five days from 8-12 December this year in Nakuru County, Naivasha City, Kenya.
ICPAC Senior Officer who is a Specialist in charge of eleven African countries that looks at the use of climate information while speaking at a five-day multi-sectoral workshop that brought together stakeholders from various sectors that was held for five days from 8-12 December this year in Nakuru County, Naivasha City, Kenya.
Manager Child Rights and Child Participation Save the Children Mary Chavula closely monitoring the five-day expert workshop that brought together stakeholders from various sectors, which took place for five days from 8-12 December this year in Nakuru County, Naivasha City, Kenya.
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BY MUSSA KHALID
Representatives from National Meteorological Services (NMHSs), Civil Society Organizations, the private sector and journalists have been urged to go and make reports and disseminate weather information services to help communities avoid disasters.
The statement was made today by Meteorological Research Scientist from the IGAD Centre for Climate Prediction and Application Titike Bahaga while speaking at a five-day expert workshop that brought together stakeholders in Nakuru County, Naivasha City in Kenya.
Bahaga said that the objectives of bringing together the stakeholders are to increase their understanding and use of weather services for regional hazard monitoring, interpreting hazard information, and supporting communication and decision-making.
"We believe that as a program and project, we are investing in training journalists from various media outlets at the national level, especially in the area of disseminating climate information to the community."
For his part, Kenyan journalist trainer Mr Issac Sagala's goal is to plan joint strategies to improve collaboration with stakeholders from various sectors to obtain information that will help combat climate change.
He has emphasized that journalists should control information and provide information that has been verified by the Meteorological Authorities so as not to cause confusion for communities, especially rural ones.
In the workshop, the participation and protection of children in climate issues and climate change were discussed, where the Manager Child Rights and Child Participation Save the Children Ms Mary Chavula said that they have taught how parents and the entire community should protect children.
He said that various methods have been used to train children including the media, Radio, TV and social networks so that they can become leaders in climate issues.
For their part, some participants in the workshop, including KIGALIINFO journalist from Rwanda Saimon Kamuzinzi and SIFA FM journalist Linda Akothi from Kenya, said that what they had in mind was the collaboration needed to ensure that the information they provide on climate change adaptation is more useful to them when they collaborate.
Linda also said that children have been greatly affected by climate change issues, so the workshop has shown a clear picture that there is a great need for stakeholders to involve them, including in producing information that will help them in adapting to climate change.
The five-day workshop, which brought together four East African countries including Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Kenya, was hosted by the IGAD Centre for Climate Prediction and Application (ICPAC), in collaboration with the UK Met Office and Norwegian Capacity (NORCAP), through the Project for the Enhancement of Seasonality in East Africa - East Africa (PASS-EA) under the WISER Africa Programme funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) which aims to improve the quality, accessibility and use of climate information.
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