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
●	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
●	Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE) – Dakar, Sénégal		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
●	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
●	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
●	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
●	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
●	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
●	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
MARINE AND COASTAL RESOURCES
●	Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) – Pretoria, South Africa		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
●	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
●	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
●	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

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