GMES and Africa Regional Workshop (Northern Africa) : EO for Decision Support in Water and Natural Resources Management in North Africa, 19-21 Oct. 2022
This Regional Workshop will be organized by the Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) in hybrid mode in the Laico Hotel, Tunis (Tunisia). The theme is “Leverage Earth Observation in support to decision making”.
The Workshop will be held with the aim of raising awareness on EO potentials in water and natural resources management, on the one hand, and to discuss how to bridge the gaps for further strengthening of EO transformation into actionable information for the decision-making chain in different fields, on the other hand.
It aims to:
- Raise awareness on EO potentials for sustainable management of water and natural resources as well as for SDG’s monitoring and decision making;
- Showcase the achievements of GMES and Africa – North-Africa;
- Share best practices between the consortia partners on how to use EO in support to sustainable management of water and natural resources and reinforce the regional exchanges and dynamize cooperation among partners.
The workshop will be held back to back with the third advanced geospatial science and technology TEANGEO conference, organized by CRTEAN under GMES and Africa umbrella.
About 100 representatives of Earth Observation thematic experts and water and natural resources managers, stakeholders and decision makers, end-users, academia, the private sector, research institutions from North-Africa and all over the world are expected to attend the three-day event.
The conclusions of the regional workshop, action items and key recommendations will be endorsed at the end of the workshop by the participants and will be considered as valuable input for the next regional workshops as well as GMES and Africa activities. The full report and proceedings will be produced and disseminated online to the participants.
The link to the GMES-North Africa regional workshop.
Topic: Regional Workshop-North Africa "Earth Observation for Decision support in Water and Natural Resources Management in North Africa
Time : 19 Oct 2022 09:00 AM Tunis
Daily, 3 event(s)
- Oct 19, 2022 09:00 AM
- Oct 20, 2022 09:00 AM
- Oct 21, 2022 09:00 AM
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87323674496?pwd=RFEvUFVJdG9VdHRXTUtobzRxbnhVZz09
Meeting ID : 873 2367 4496
Secret Code: 572603
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Concept note (Objectives, Expected results, Target groups, Participants, Approach, Agenda)
The Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS), http://www.oss-online.org,
The Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) is an international scope organization with an African vocation which was created in 1992 and based in Tunis since 2000. The OSS initiates and facilitates partnerships on common challenges related to the management of shared water resources, the implementation of international agreements on desertification, biodiversity and climate change in Africa. The OSS has 33 member countries (26 African countries and 7 non-African countries), 13 member organizations representing West, East and North Africa, UN organizations as well as 3 non-governmental organizations.
See also the online training 21-22 Septembre 2022 "Remote sensing and spatial data for a better management of the NWSAS groundwater resources", http://www.oss-online.org/en/node/466. In French "La télédétection et les données spatiales pour une meilleure gestion des ressources en eau souterraines du SASS", http://www.oss-online.org/fr/node/466.
The Regional Center for Remote Sensing of North Africa States (CRTEAN), http://www.crtean.org.tn/en/. A Regional organization established in Tunis in October 6, 1990 after the signing of the Constitutive Act of the five party members of North Africa States, (Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunis & Libya). And joined later Egypt and Sudan. The Center aims to encouraging the institutions in Member States for:
- Using remote sensing techniques and upstream systems in the areas of sustainable development and scientific research.
- Technologies Transfer.
- Capacity building for the member states.
The Global Monitoring for Environment and Security, and Africa (GMES and Africa) Support Programme is the achievement of the longstanding cooperation between Africa and Europe in space science & technology, which is one of the key priorities of the long-term EU-Africa Joint Strategy. In October 2006, the Maputo Declaration provided the necessity for the EU-Africa partnership to confirm the commitment to avail European infrastructure and facilities, under the Copernicus programme to Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries.
The overall objective of this project is to support decision-making in the sustainable management of natural resources and water through products and services based on Earth Observation (EO) data and techniques.
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