Title
Scaling weather and climate services for agriculture in Senegal: Evaluating systemic but overlooked effects
Date Issued
01 April 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Andrieu N.
Soule-Adam N.
Ndiaye O.
Chiputwa B.
UMR Innovation
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
In the West African Sahel, climate variability and climate change pose huge challenges to food security and health, particularly for poor and marginalised population groups. Co-production of actionable climate information between scientists and users has been advocated to increase its use in adaptation to climate change. Consequently, Weather and Climate Services (WCS) co-production models have been expanding, but there have been few evaluations of their effects, and those that exist mostly focus on the end user. The empirical contribution of this paper is an evidence based evaluation of the scaling of WSC co-production models and its enabling factors. The methodological contribution is a systemic and iterative evaluation method involving multiple analytical tools. The scaling of WCS in Senegal involved at least 161 actors and resulted in five axes of transformation: 1) continuous improvement of WCS, 2) emergence and consolidation of WCS facilitators, 3) inclusion of WCS in action planning, 4) active mobilisation to sustain WCS scaling, and 5) empowerment of actors. New users and uses emerged beyond agriculture, involving the fisheries, water and energy sectors, producing changes in institutional communication strategies, operational planning, and in coordination between actors. Enabling factors for scaling included capacity strengthening, knowledge-sharing and action platforms, interaction opportunities, and financial and political support. However, reduced precision of forecasts over time is perceived. New challenges are emerging including improving delivery and finer grain information, getting the private sector involved, and building capacity and trust at a large scale, to keep pace with the increase in uses and users.
Volume
22
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias agrícolas Agricultura Economía, Negocios
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85101328118
Source
Climate Services
ISSN of the container
24058807
DOI of the container
10.1016/j.cliser.2021.100216
Source funding
Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers
CGIAR Trust Fund
Sponsor(s)
This work was funded under the 2018 call for ex-post impact assessment (ep-IA) of climate change related work in the CGIAR. The call is a competitive bid funded by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) with the aim of providing robust impact evaluations of climate change related work. CCAFS is carried out with support from the CGIAR Trust Fund and through bilateral funding agreements. For details please visit https://ccafs.cgiar.org/donors . The views expressed in this document cannot be taken to reflect the official opinions of these organisations.
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