Goal, Vision and Mission

The primary goal is to create a multi-institutional and multi-stakeholder collaborative platform that mobilizes expertise and resources to facilitate use-inspired climate science research that informs climate change policy and sustainable development planning in Africa. CR4D will create Regional Climate Research Partnerships that involve diverse expertise from the natural, biophysical and social sciences to design research that translates into appropriate and actionable information for policy and sustainable development planning.

Vision: Catalyze multi-institutional and multi-disciplinary integrated, demand-driven, climate research and analysis that is responsive to specific user and development planning needs.

Mission: Create a Pan-Africa Collaborative Platform and Network of African climate science, services, policy, and practice communities as well as development partners and other stakeholders to co-explore, co-design, co-produce and co-communicate climate information and services, thus improving access, quality, and usability and mainstreaming of climate information into Development Planning in Africa.

Specific Objectives of CR4D

• Enhancing ACPC’s links with climate research and operational centers, as well as other stakeholders and initiatives in order to improve flow of relevant climate information and services for policymaking and development planning;

• Promoting and facilitating alliances among climate scientists, service providers, policy makers, and practitioners through a collaborative platform for the co-production of climate information and services;

• Fostering multi-institutional and multi-stakeholder, integrated (applied) climate research;

• Facilitating cross-disciplinary networking and exchange of expertise within institutions in Africa and their international partners in co-exploring, co-designing, co-producing and co-communicating demand-driven climate information.;

• Fostering an enabling environment for pooling and sharing research facilities, resources, and infrastructure among sub-regional, regional and Pan-African institutions in order to enhance quality and availability of climate knowledge and products relevant to specific user-sectors;

• Mobilizing and promoting cross-disciplinary strategic capacity development and training in partnership with sub-regional, regional and Pan-Africa institutions and stakeholders;

• Promoting and supporting use of climate smart innovations and technologies, including social media, to network and disseminate climate information and services;