Building climate services together: Partnerships strengthening climate resilience in Kenya
Recently, the Alliance, KMD, FAO, FEWS NET, IMTR and 14 LREB counties trained 56 master trainers in Kenya to cascade digital climate advisory services to about 1,200 extension officers and strengthen farmers’ climate resilience.
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Building climate services together: Partnerships strengthening climate resilience in Kenya
Recently, the Alliance, KMD, FAO, FEWS NET, IMTR and 14 LREB counties trained 56 master trainers in Kenya to cascade digital climate advisory services to about 1,200 extension officers and strengthen farmers’ climate resilience.
No single institution can deliver a climate service on its own. A forecast becomes a service only when it changes what a farmer does and the distance between a seasonal outlook issued in Nairobi and a planting decision made on a smallholding in the Lake Region is crossed by many hands. Kenya's Integrated Digital Climate Advisory Services (DCAS), delivered under the Scaling for Impact (S4I) initiative of CGIAR, shows how partnership closes that distance: not by any one organisation doing more, but by several institutions connecting what each already does best into a single working system.
Producing accurate forecasts is only the first link in that system. Turning forecasts into decisions requires meteorologists, agricultural researchers, training institutions, county governments, extension officers and development partners to operate as one chain covering climate observation and forecasting, interpretation, advisory development, delivery through the channels farmers actually use, and feedback that improves the next cycle. A climate service is only as strong as its weakest handoff, and it is precisely those handoffs that partnership exists to hold.