The 12 Awarded Consortia

Thirteen consortia were selected through a competitive call for proposal process. The SADC led consortium was outed after 12 months. The remaining consortia involve 122 institutions (leaders, partners, and associates) in 45 African countries and 6 European countries - see below (SITE1 links to the page dedicated to the Project on the website of the leader of the consortium whereas SITE2 links to the Project's website, if any)


Leader (Website) Title of awarded
Project, Site1, Site2
Partners Countries involved Maps
    

   WATER AND NATURAL RESOURCES

    

Agence Gabonaise d'Etudes et Observations Spatiales (AGEOS) – Libreville, Gabon
  
Surveillance de la forêt équatoriale, suivi et évaluation (SEFAC) | 
Site1 & Site2 | Geoportal
  
COMIFAC-Cameroun, INCOMA-Equatorial Guinea, OBPE-Burundi, UM-Chad
  
Gabon and Central Africa Countries
  
Consortium AGEOS


Commission Internationale du Bassin Congo-Oubangui-Sangha (CICOS) – Kinshasa, RDC
  
Gestion de l’Eau et Ressources Naturelles en Afrique Centrale | Site1 & Site2 
  
CBLT-Chad, CRH-Cameroun, GIE-SCEVN-Central African Republic, OSFAC-DRC, UniKin-FACAGRO-GRN-DRC
  
Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, DRC, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome & Principe
  
Consortium CICOS


Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE) РDakar, S̩n̩gal
  
Utilisation des Données d’Observation de la Terre en appui à la Gestion durable des Zones humides pour le renforcement de la Sécurité alimentaire et de la Résilience des écosystèmes en Afrique de l’Ouest (GH-ZHAO) | Site1 & Site2 | Geoportal
  
COSIE-Guinea Conakry, CERSGIS-Ghana, CURAT-Cote d Ivoire, DPMW-Gambia, DFCAP-Niger, DNEF-Mali, IGB-Burkina Faso
  
Burkina-Faso, Gambia, Guinea, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal
  
Consortium CSE

African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology Education (CSSTE) – Ile Ife, Nigeria
  
Multi-scale Flood Monitoring and Assessment Services for West Africa (MiFMASS) | Site1 & Site2
  
CURAT-Cote d’Ivoire, ISESTEL-Burkina Faso, INE-Benin, UG-Ghana, VBA-Burkina Faso, WRI-CSIR-Ghana
  
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria
  

Consortium CSSTE

IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) – Nairobi, Kenya Monitoring Natural Resources and Food Security in East Africa Region | Site1 & Site2 | Data Center
  
KWS-Kenya, MU-Uganda, SMAR-Sudan, TFSA-Tanzania
  
Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
  

Consortium ICPAC

Observatoire du Sahara et du Sahel (OSS) – Tunis, Tunisia
  
Observation de la Terre pour la Gestion Durable de la Terre et de l’Eau en Afrique du Nord - Earth observation for the sustainable management of land and water in North Africa | Site1 & Site2 | Misbar 
  
ASA-Algeria, CEDARE-Egypt, CERT-Tunisia, CNCT-Tunisia, CRASTE-LF-Morocco, CRTEAN-Tunisia, CRTS-Morocco, DRC-Egypt, IMROP-Mauritania, LCRSSS-Libya, UCD-Morocco, UR-Mauritania
  
Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Consortium OSS

Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) – Nairobi, Kenya
  
Land Degradation Monitoring and Assessment, Wetlands Monitoring and Assessment and Open Geographical Regional Reference Vector Database (~1:1M scale) for water and agro-ecological zonings | Site1 & Site2 | Geoportal
   
EMA-Ethiopia, MML-Mauritius, MU-Uganda, RWFA-Rwanda
  
Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rwanda, Somalia, Seychelles, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
  
Consortium RCMRD


SADC Climate Services Centre (SADC-CSC) – Gaborone, Botswana Water and Natural Resources Applications
  
BUAN-Botswana, NRSC-Zambia, SANSA-South Africa, U-ZW-Zimbabwe
  
Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia, South-Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Consortium SADC

Southern Africa Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL), Windhoek, Namibia
  
Wetland Assessment and Monitoring Platform for Transboundary River Basins in Southern Africa (WeMAST) | 
Site1 & Site2
MSU-Zimbabwe, NRSC-Zambia, SANSA-South Africa, U-BW-Botswana, UWC-South Africa, U-ZM-Zambia
  
Angola, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique
  
Consortium SASSCAL


   

   MARINE AND COASTAL RESOURCES

   

GMES-Africa Marine and Coastal Service Development for Southern Africa (MarCoSouth) | Site1 & Site2
  
AI4F-South Africa, BCC-Namibia, CORDIO-Kenya, EMU-Mozambique, IMSUDS-Tanzania, NSRI-South Africa, WIOMSA-Tanzania
  
Angola, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa and Tanzania
  
Consortium CSIR


Mauritius Oceanography Institute (MOI) - Port Louis, Mauritius
  
Marine and Coastal Management in the East Africa Region | Site1 & Site2
  
IHSM-Madagascar, KMFRI-Kenya, SMA-Seychelles, TAFIRI-Tanzania, WIOMSA-Tanzania
  
Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda
  
Consortium MOI


National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Science (NARSS) – Cairo, Egypt
  
Developing an Earth Observation Operational Application for Coastal Ecosystems Mapping, Monitoring and Assessment of the Northern African Coastal Zone - EOOS (NAfCoast) | Site1 & Site2
  
CEDARE-Egypt, CERT-Tunisia, IMROP-Mauritania, UCD-Morocco
  
Egypt, Mauritania Morocco, Tunisia
  
Consortium NARSS


University of Ghana (UoG) – Legon, Ghana
  
Marine and Coastal Areas Management in western Africa | Site1 & Site2 | Geoportal 
  
CRODI-Senegal, CURAT-Cote d Ivoire, GH-MET-Ghana, IRHOB-Benin, NIFD-Cape Verde, NIOMR-Nigeria, WI-Senegal
  
Benin, Cape Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mauritanian Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sao Tome & Principe, Togo
  
Consortium UoG





These grantees can be grouped in three different clusters, namely: 
  • Group (1) Two Consortia that cover geographical areas not covered by predecessors program i.e. MESA, AMESD and PUMA: (Northern Africa) NARSS, OSS ; 
  • Group (2) Six consortia that were beneficiaries of predecessors programs : CICOS, ICPAC, MOI, RCMRD, SADC-CSC, UoG) ; and 
  • Group (3) Five Consortia that were not beneficiaries of predecessors programs : AGEOS, CSE, CSIR, CSSTE, SASSCAL.  

The 13 consortia and their geographical extension



The 12 Water and Natural Resources applications




The 7 Marine and Coastal applications




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