Good day!

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Earth Observation Training, Education,

and Capacity Development Network

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AMERICAS REGION COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

FLOODS WORKING GROUP

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18 October 2023

Today’s agenda

Interim monitoring + evaluation update

Preliminary “Year in Review”

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Tools: Global flood tools use case, 6 regional flood event analyses, 12 CoP spotlight videos, 2 journal articles in process

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Awareness raising/knowledge sharing: 15+ outreach events, 2 webinars, 350 tweets, 235 training/opportunities shared, 1 social media strategy

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Collaboration:

• New website, member platform, newsletter, LinkedIn, YouTube, X
• CoPs and Global structures meeting regularly
• 2 global drought consultations and drought WG launch, cooperation with SPACE4GEO, Eurisy, NEREUS, IAG, ESRI, 100 website members, @50% increase in Twitter members

From EOTEC’s Theory of Change:

Improved delivery of capacity development empowers national, regional and local users to routinely integrate EO data in decision-making related to DRR and climate adaptation and mitigation

Interim monitoring + evaluation update

Preliminary “Year in Review”

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Across the EOTEC network:

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• Users are better informed on capacity building resources
• Global and national capacity builders are improving coordination

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THANK YOU FOR CONTRIBUTING TO THESE RESULTS!

Nearly 800 people are participating in EOTEC DevNet network

Floods working group spotlight…

Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) (version 4.0)

Presented by:

Stefania Grimaldi

European Commission, Joint Research Centre

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Link to the presentation:

https://bit.ly/3FkUTVl

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www.globalfloods.eu

Discussion

The Early Warnings 4 All Initiative

• Are CoP members participating?
• Can EOTEC DevNet support with knowledge sharing, information exchange, etc?
• Any other recommendations?

Secretariat updates

• Launch of new website with member platform

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• Flood tracker and use case updates

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• Drought working group kick-off

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• EO needs assessment guidance

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• Upcoming activities and opportunities

Meet the New Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem!

Webinar: Nov. 15 at 14:00 UTC

Register at https://bit.ly/3RHQe7h

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Website launch

Be part of the conversation: www.eotecdev.net

1. Sign up for an account - prompts in the top right corner of home page
2. Visit the Connect page to join sign up for your online EOTEC task team or working group - and any others you are interested in!
3. Post a question, comment, or link in any of the groups or your own member feed

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SEE YOU ONLINE!

Floods working group updates

Tracker improvements and new use case

Flood tools tracker improvements planned for 2024, including addition of drought resources

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Please add new tools/capacity building resources and let us know if existing ones need updating

New Regional Event Analysis available: Mondego River (Portugal) Flooding, 2019

Droughts working groups

Droughts kick-off meetings held September 27

Keynote: Global Water Partnership’s Integrated Drought Management Programme - recording on www.eotecdev.net

First task: drought tools matrix

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***Please review and add resources***

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Link to drought tools matrix

Who do you know who might be interested? Please share with your network!

CoP task team project

Guidance on needs assessment

• Matrix for tracking resources on EO needs assessment

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• Plan to “crowd-source” content from the CoP

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• Basis for a web-based tool, similar to the flood tools tracker.

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JOIN THE EFFORT!

Please visit the document and add resources

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Link to document

Opportunities and resources

Opportunities and resources

Summary and next steps

• Copernicus Space Data Ecosystem Webinar: Nov. 15, 14:00 UTC

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• CoP task team meeting: December 6, 16:00 UTC

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• Flood Working Group meeting: January 17, 16:00 UTC

Thank you for being part of the EOTEC community of practice.

See you online!

eotecdev.net @EOTEC DevNet #EOTECDevNet