Two new documents available at AFRIMET’s files
The following presentations by Dr. Pascal YAKA Burkina Faso, regional expert of Healthmet project, are available from our archive:
"Climate, Environment and Health: What are the Relationships Between Climate and meningitis? How Could We use climate data to predict meningitis Epidemics? ", public lecture at the University of Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
"Opportunities and Constraints Seasonal Rainfall Forecast for application to agricultural decisions in Burkina Faso", presentation at the international workshop on seasonal forecasts and their application to rural world, University of Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, May 2012.
HEALTHMET: Prediction of meningococcal meningitis incidence trend in Burkina Faso and Niger for year 2012.
Find here the document, and also in Afrimet's archives.
HEALTHMET: Creation of the Burkina Faso national Climate-Health Work Group
On the 15 and 16 of Decembre 2011 the workshop for the launch of the Burkina Faso National Climate-Health Work Group (NCHWG) was held in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), being Burkina the second of the countries participating in the project HEALTHMET that sets up the NCHWG.
Project HEALTHMET encourages the establishment of links between health and meteorological authorities in five pilot countries, by means of the creation of national Work Groups whose mission is to promote the use of meteorological and climatological information to improve the prevention and the fight against epidemiological diseases sensitive to climatic variations, with particular attention to meningitis and malaria.
The Director of the National Civil Aviation Agency of Burkina Faso, on behalf of the Minister of Transport, Posts and Numeric Economics, presided over the opening ceremony along with the Director General of Meteorology, and representatives of the Ministry of Health, the WMO and AEMET (Spanish Meteorological Agency).
Around 35 people attended the workshop, representative of various authorities and organisations related to health services, meteorologists, environment and university.
As a result, the composition of the NCHWG, including goals, tasks and expected outcomes have been defined and a work plan has been produced that will be developed over year 2012.
The presentations and final report produced from the workshop are available in the Afrimet program’s website files.
Media coverage of the METAGRI project's results
- http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/pr_929_en.html
- http://www.aemet.es/es/noticias/2011/10/seminarios_africa
- http://www.lavozdeasturias.es/opinion/Meteorologia-desarrollo_0_573542715.html
- http://www.unmultimedia.org/radio/french/2011/10/omm-mettre-la-meteo-au-service-des-paysans-africains/
- http://reliefweb.int/node/452793
- http://climate-l.iisd.org/news/wmo-trains-west-african-farmers-on-use-of-weatherclimate-information/
- http://allafrica.com/stories/201110270557.html
- http://www.africainfomarket.org/noticia/espana/la-agencia-estatal-de-meteorologia-de-espana-financia-un-exitoso-programa-en-africa-occidental/340469
Creation of the Mauritanian national Climate-Health Work Group
On the 28 and 29 of June 2011, the workshop for the launch of the Mauritanian national Climate-Health Work Group (CHWG) was held in Nouakchott (Mauritania), being Mauritania the first of the countries participating in the project HEALTHMET that sets up the CHWG.
Project HEALTHMET encourages the establishment of links between health and meteorological authorities in five pilot countries, by means of the creation of national Work Groups whose mission is to promote the use of meteorological and climatological information to improve the prevention and the fight against epidemiological diseases sensitive to climatic variations. Diseases such as meningitis, malaria and Rift Valley fever have a great human and economic cost in these countries and it is known that they are related to environmental and climatic factors.
The General Secretaries for the Ministries for Equipment and Transport and the Ministry of Health presided over the opening ceremony along with the Director General of the National Meteorological Office, the Mauritanian representative of the WHO and representatives of the WMO and AEMET (Spanish Meteorological Agency).
Around 40 people attended the workshop, representative of various authorities and organisations related to health services, meteorologists, universities and NGOs. Also present was a representative of the Spanish Oficina Técnica de Cooperación (Technical Cooperation Office) in Mauritania.
A work plan has been produced that will be developed over the coming 12 months.
The presentations and documents produced from the workshop are available in the website program file.
Participants - Creation of the Mauritanian national Climate-Health Work Group
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