Airbus Flood and Drought Resilience: Earth Observation-enabled decision support for flood and drought resilience in Ethiopia and Kenya
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Description
Both Ethiopia and Kenya are flood and drought prone with significant mortality and economic losses frequently attributed to such events in each country. This project focuses on building resilience to these events in order to lessen risk and support economic resilience. In Ethiopia work is focused on developing an improved understanding of flood and drought hazards and risks to help build social and economic resilience to water-related problems. In Kenya the focus is on the effectiveness of using EO data for the micro-insurance market and Government Institutions; an important tool for farmers who currently have little or no access to detailed information. This will be supported by the improved delivery of tailored information to assist decision-making related to flood and drought at the following geographical levels: • Ethiopia: at river basin level (working with the Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperation). • Kenya: at local level (working with women farmer intermediaries and micro-insurance actors) and at county and sub-county level (working with the National Drought Management Authority). Information will include: • Ethiopia: assessments of risks and socio-economic damage due to flood and drought provided to the Climate Resilience Green Economy secretariat. Information will be in the form of reports, maps, statistics, probability of occurrence, model outputs, etc. This will allow authorities to improve planning for both food shortages and adaptation measures for climate change. • Kenya: historical and current information on drought and flood occurrences. In particular, the actual information will inform a continuous monitoring process for crop status on a 10-day and 20-metre basis. This will support the following scenarios: • micro-insurance providers making decisions on farmer compensation. • governmental authorities improving management of flood disasters and periods of food shortages, and, addressing government subsidies. • farmer communities making decisions on selling/ buying pastoral goods on the market during crisis periods. Capacity building in both Ethiopia and Kenya will take place with the end-users of the online dashboard.
Objectives
The project aims to save lives and improve livelihoods in Ethiopia and Kenya through the development of a single dashboard tool that informs longer term planning and investment in Ethiopia and shorter term flood forecasting in Ethiopia and drought financing in Kenya. The dashboard tool will include satellite data on elevation, rainfall, and unprocessed indicators of land use and conditions taken from Sentinel 2 and UK DMC 2 / Kaz ST Sat.
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