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Happy New Year!

Earth Observation Training, Education,

and Capacity Development Network

AFRICA REGION COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

FLOODS WORKING GROUP

17 January 2024

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Today’s agenda

Time (UTC)	Agenda item	Presenter/moderator
13:00	Welcome	Ganiy Agbaje
13:05	Introductions	All participants
13:10	Member exchange: 2024 plans and priorities What are you/your agency/institution working on in 2024? Please share a few sentences on any training, research or other activities. The Secretariat will kick off with EOTEC plans and then open the floor to all participants.	EOTEC DevNet Secretariat All participants
13:30	Spotlight presentation: A New Tool for the Digital Transformation of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services in Africa	Dr. Abubakr Salih Babiker Erick Otenyo Marta Baraibar
13:55	Global leadership and Secretariat updates	Secretariat
14:00	Upcoming opportunities	Secretariat, participants
14:10	Next meeting, other next steps, and thanks	Jean Danumah
14:15	Conclusion

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Member Exchange:

What are your plans and priorities for 2024?

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Secretariat input

EOTEC DevNet Plans and Priorities

UN Early Warnings 4 All initiative: Help EOTEC members connect to news, information and capacity building related to EW4All
Revamp Flood Tools Tracker
Launch Drought Working Groups and advance drought tools matrix
Collaborate with CoPs to draft guidance on needs assessment specific to Earth observations/remote sensing
Turn member platform into an online community gathering space
Publish papers: floods use case, EOTEC pilot phase

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Spotlight presentation

A New Tool for the Digital Transformation of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services in Africa

Marta Baraibar

Climate Services Expert, WMO

Erick Otenyo

Geo Developer, WMO

Dr. Abubakr Salih Babiker

Technical Coordinator for Infrastructure,

WMO Regional Office for Africa

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Global and Secretariat updates

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Floods working group updates

2024 Flood Tools Tracker improvements

Flood tools tracker improvements planned for 2024 - feedback wanted!

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

https://eotec-dev.ceos.org/

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Establishing of Drought Working Groups�Drought Tools Matrix and IDMP collaboration

**Please review and add resources**

Link to drought tools matrix

Exploring partnership with Global Water Partnership’s Integrated Drought Management Programme

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Secretariat updates

Needs assessment guidance in process

Matrix for tracking resources on EO needs assessment - now organized by category

CoP volunteers helping with analysis

Matrix is the foundation of a guidance document or tool, TBD by the volunteers.

JOIN THE EFFORT!

Please add resources

Link to document

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Website and member platform at www.eotecdev.net

140+ members have joined the online conversations

HOW TO JOIN

Sign up for an account - prompts in the top right corner of home page
Watch for an email to confirm your membership.
Visit the Connect page to sign up for an online EOTEC task team or working group (or both!)
Post a question, comment, or link in any of the groups or your own member feed

SEE YOU ONLINE!

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Upcoming opportunities

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Opportunities and resources

SAMPLE OF TRAINING AND CONFERENCES
UNOOSA 6th Conference on the Use of Space Technology for Water, 7-10 May Management, Costa Rica (in-person and virtual). Apply for funding by January 24: https://t.co/6OqKccyEg2	Google Workshop: 5th annual Flood Forecasting Meets Machine Learning, Jan 22-23, virtual. Register here: bit.ly/3NbzYsb
3rd CEMS Flood Forecasting and Monitoring Meeting, 5-6 March, online Open for submission of use cases	UN-SPIDER Bonn International Conference on Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management - "Early Warnings for All", 12-14 March, Bonn, Germany, in person
Webinar: GEOGloWS Streamflow 2.0: Lessons Learned in Global Hydrological Modeling and Local Capacity Building https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ALFNtl-TlE	AGU’s Water Science Conference (WaterSciCon), 23-28 June, Minneapolis, USA, in-person. Abstract submission deadline January 24
Resource: NASA’s Transform to Open Science curriculum: https://nasa.github.io/Transform-to-Open-Science/	European Geophysical Union 2024: 14-19 April, Vienna, Austria, in-person and virtual.
Resource: CEOS Earth Observation Handbook 2023: ceos.org/news/eohb-2023/	EO College new module ‘Land & EO‘ of Towards Zero Hunger, online, open
Resource: UNDRR Global Status of Multihazard Early Warning Systems 2023: https://bit.ly/3Ndybm6	2nd International Symposium on Remote Sensing in Meteorology METEO IRS 2024, 11-13 June, in person (Istanbul) and online https://meteoirs.itu.edu.tr/2024/

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Opportunities and resources

PLACES TO FIND TRAINING
New World Climate Research Programme catalog: wcrp-academy.org/catalog
Digital Earth Africa: www.digitalearthafrica.org	EO Africa R+D Facility webinars on youtube: @eoafricardfacility3607
CEOS Training Calendar: training.ceos.org	NASA ARSET: bit.ly/3Fh7ERe
UN-SPIDER Events Calendar: bit.ly/3LjKHk0	ESA: eo4society.esa.int/training-education/
GEO Events Calendar: https://earthobservations.org/events	EO College: eo-college.org
EUMETSAT training catalogue: catalog.trainhub.eumetsat.int	UN CC: e-Learn: https://unccelearn.org/
WMO Global Campus: learningevents.wmo.int/#/	WMO-CGMS VLab: wmo-sat.info/vlab/vlab-training-calendar/

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Summary and next steps

CoP Task Team meeting: March 20, 13:00 UTC

Next Floods Working Group meeting: April 17, 13:00 UTC

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

See you online!

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