Strengthening Early Warning Systems

for Anticipatory Action

The Strengthening Early Warning Systems for Anticipatory Action (SEWAA) Project is an innovative project that aims at provision of early warning systems that can be utilized in improving the decision-making process by the different stakeholders over Eastern Africa. Eastern Africa has experienced extreme events that have had a significant impact on the region. These events, such as droughts, floods, and tropical cyclones, have posed challenges to the communities living in this part of the continent. The scarcity of rainfall during droughts has affected water and food availability, increases the levels of food insecurity over the region. On the other hand, heavy rains and floods have led to infrastructure and crop damage, displacement of communities and loss of biodiversity. Coping with these extreme events requires collective efforts and resilient strategies to mitigate their adverse effects on the well-being of Eastern African populations thus the need for Anticipatory Actions in order to preserve the resilience of the communities. The scientific work in the SEWAA project is ambitious and aims to break new ground along two thematic areas by utilizing the state of the art Machine learning techniques.