Core Functions

CR4D has four core areas of collaborations among climate science, services, policy and practice to co-produce demand-driven climate information. These are:

Core Function 1 (CF1): The Africa Climate Collaboration Platform to mobilize and promote use-inspired, multi-institutional, multi-stakeholder, and multi-disciplinary applied climate research collaborations, with clear user-need targets, at sub-regional, regional and Pan-Africa level;

Core Function 2 (CF2): Regional Climate Partnership to facilitate multi-institutional and multi-stakeholder sharing of climate research resources and expertise in order to enhance co-production of reliable climate information and services for Development Planning;

Core Function 3 (CF3): Climate-smart innovations, technologies, and decision-translation Tools to promote and support use of climate smart innovations and technologies, including social media, to network and disseminate climate information and services;

Core Function 4 (CF4): Sustainable Capacity Development and Training to promote and support strategies for collaborative and sustainable capacity development and training through multi-institutional and multi-stakeholder partnerships. This includes support for strengthening capacities of institutions and stakeholders at national, regional, continental level as well as:

  • Identify and mobilize young and budding African climate researchers in social and biophysical sciences around a unified climate research agenda that addresses priority needs of policy-makers and vulnerable communities in Africa
  • Rally all CR4D partners and stakeholders to promote and undertake capacity-building and development of African climate scientists and institutions with cross-regional exchanges and secondments, etc.

Core Function

CR4D core areas of collaborations among climate science, services, policy, and practice to co-produce demand-driven climate information