Extreme Climate Change Early Warning Systems (EWS) are a tool for developing and communicating information for different stakeholders, including populations and users and managers of forest, pastoral and agricultural areas. To be effective, they must actively involve at-risk communities, facilitate education and public awareness, effectively disseminate alerts and warnings and ensure constant readiness. The OSS and its partners have developed techniques in this regard through the projects implemented for two decades and promoted in the framework of climate change adaptation new projects: ADAPT-WAP (West Africa), DRESS EA (East Africa) and Drought Early Warning System in the Maghreb (North Africa).
This was the topic addressed and discussed during the side event organized by the OSS at COP 25 in Madrid, on December 10, 2019, at the OIF Pavilion. On this occasion, the approaches developed by the OSS and its partners were presented by a panel of speakers, including Mr. Khatim KHERRAZ, Executive Secretary of the Sahara and Sahel Observatory - OSS, Mr. Elvis Paul TANGEM , African Union, Mr. Abubakr, ICPAC, Mr. Nabil BEN KHATRA, Environment Program Coordinator, OSS, Mr. Abdou ALI, CILSS, Mr. Abdoulaye MAIZAMA, Niger, Mr. Emmanuel SECK, ENDA Senegal and Mrs. Awatef MABROUK, Civil Society, Tunisia. The discussions pointed out the prospects of early warning approaches and their promotion in Africa. See the Flyer