African Union Commission: ClimSA invites bidders to supply, deliver and install Earth Station, and train beneficiaries

The Commission invites bids from eligible bidders for Supply, Delivery and Installation of ClimSA Climate and PUMA-Stations and Delivery of Training. Deadline is May 26, 2023, 1500hrs Addis Ababa time

The African Union Commission with support from the European Commission has set aside funds for the purchase of Climate and PUMA Stations for the Intra-ACP and Climate Services and Related Applications (ClimSA) programme – Support to the Implementation of the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) in Africa.

The Commission invites sealed bids from eligible bidders for Supply, Delivery and Installation of ClimSA Climate and PUMA-Stations and Delivery of Training 

Source:

https://au.int/en/bids/20230321/supply-delivery-and-installation-climate-and-puma-stations-and-delivery-training-use

More about ClimSA 

https://au.int/sites/default/files/bids/42667-ClimSA_-_Invitation_to_BidRe-advertised-_Supply_Delivery_Installation_of_Earth_Station_and_Training_edit_PK_2.pdf

The ClimSA programme contributes to the realization of the goals of a number of African and international development frameworks. These include the Africa Agenda 2063, the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, and other multilateral environmental agreements, including, inter alia, the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction, the Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity 2023 ClimSA: Supply of Climate and PUMA-MTG-202X Stations Page  of 77 220(CBD), and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). The programme is a key initiative implementing the Integrated African Strategy on Meteorology (Weather and Climate Services) while at the same time addressing other relevant national, regional, continental, and international development frameworks. 

The main objective of the ClimSA programme is to foster sustainable development on the continent by improving the decision-making processes and practice through informed adaptation options to climate variability and change. The programme enhances the African capacities to better manage the risks of climate variability and change and adapt to climate change, through the development and incorporation of science-based climate information and prediction into planning, policy and decision-making, and practice at the African continental, regional and national levels. 

Specifically, the programme aims to strengthen the entire climate services value chain from access to information, generation and provision of climate services, stakeholder engagement, and strengthened capacity of users to ensure effective utilization of the services.  

Role of the African Union Commission

The African Union Commission (AUC) has an overall mandate of ensuring coordinated, coherent and sustainable development and utilisation of climate services in Africa. This mandate was reiterated by the Second Ordinary Session of the Specialised Technical Committee on Agriculture, Rural, Development, Water and Environment (STC-ARDWE) which was held in October 2017. The STC-ARDWE called upon the AUC “to continue taking its leadership role of ensuring coordinated and coherent implementation of the GFCS programme in collaboration with all relevant stakeholders”. Thus, the AUC ensures effective coordination of programme implementation across the African continent with RECs, Regional Organizations, Member States, RCCs, and other relevant stakeholders.