Saidu Oseni was a 2009/2010 Post-Doctoral Fellow who completed his Fellowship at Egerton University in Kenya. He was one of six ACCFP Alumni selected to participate in the UNFCCC COP17.
Arame Tall was a 2009/2010 Policy Fellow who completed her Fellowship at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop. She was one of six ACCFP Alumni selected to participate in the UNFCCC COP17.
This August, I went to Bhutan for a science-policy dialogue on climate change, and was absolutely blown away! It was vastly different from what I had been expecting — in terms of environmental awareness, technical skills, and approaches to discussion on national policy…
Arame Tall is a 2009/2010 ACCFP Policy Fellow who completed her Fellowship at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD), in Dakar, Senegal.
Temesgen Deressa is a 2009/2010 ACCFP Doctoral Research Fellow who recently completed his Fellowship at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), in Washington, DC.
Abedelaziz Babqiqi received training during April 2010 in cooperation with Dr.Lahouri Bounoua at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Both scientists are co-investigators as part the research project, Vulnerability Assessment and Risk Levels of Ecosystem Services for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Moroccan Oases, which is one of the 2010 START Grants for GEC in Africa.
Dr. Isabelle Niang presented on the risks associated with climate change in coastal zones at the 4th National Science-Policy Dialogue of the CCMAP Project held 12-14 April 2010, in Dakar, Senegal.
2009/2010 ACCFP Fellow, Arame Tall, explains a second “Early Warning – Early Action” Initiative organized with the Red Cross in Senegal to discuss how communities could learn to live with their changing climate and could benefit from climate and weather forecast.
Felix Olorunfemi, an ACCFP Fellow, studying at the University of Cape Town, explains the how he and four other ACCFP Fellows contributed to the one-day roundtable discussion on “Meeting the Climate Change Challenge in South Africa”, at the CCAA Annual Board Meeting. CCAA is a joint venture of IDRC Canada and UK DFID.
Mr. Jesse S. Ayivor and Prof. Chris Gordon of the University of Ghana describe the first science policy dialogue, held October 19-21, part of a new EU/UNEP funded project, which will organize eight more such workshops in West Africa, East Africa and Southeast Asia.
