Capacity building the Gambia

In The Gambia Weather Impact gives training sessions with a focus on DCAS, agro-weather tools and technical learnings. In total 30 participants from different governmental departments and from the DWR are trainined in two sessions, to educate them in the correct usage, required input and interpretation of agro and weather information.

The goal is to teach and share effective digital climate advisory services and provide training on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform, that we are developing specifically for The Gambia. This platform will visualize different datasets, such as climate change hazards, land use and meteorological data, allowing govermental organisations to access all necessary information easily at one single platform. In the end, this supports decision making and build resilience against climate change.

Additionally, we provided a more specialized technical training on how to use Python, to create weather maps for The Gambia and how to maintain the GEE platform. This group will be in charge of sustaining the services locally.