📋 Tender Overview
SDC contributes to the World Meteorological Organisation’s ENANDES project, aiming to increase the resilience of 6 Latin-American countries to climate change. With the support of Swiss researchers and experts from MeteoSwiss, the project will increase the predictive capabilities of the responsible national authorities and support co-design of Weather, Water and Climate Services across the region, to the benefit of the local population, including the most vulnerable.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Andean Region
Climate change and environment
Meteorological services
Disaster risk reduction DRR
01.06.2021 - 30.09.2026
CHF 6’100’000
The project in brief
Background Knowledge, information and scientific evidence on weather, water and climate are increasingly needed to respond to the challenges and opportunities presented by climate change. This is essential to support targeted decision-making, to design adaptation actions, to reduce vulnerabilities, and to increase the resilience of inhabitants and socio-ecological systems against growing hydro-climatic hazards. The Andes are particularly vulnerable to extreme weather events and climate variability and -change. Currently the process of co-producing and disseminating targeted WMO knowledge, information and services is deficient among the responsible regional institutions and along the value chain, for a variety of reasons, such as low institutional capacity and/or lack of adequate resources. Through this project, the SDC aims to leverage on the Swiss expertise gathered in earlier projects in Latin America with the support of reknown Swiss experts from MeteoSwiss and the School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences of the Berne University of Applied Sciences (HAFL). Increased regional cooperation in climate modelling and improved interpretative and predictive capabilities are necessary to assure timely access to critical information and services by relevant decision-makers.
Objectives The overall goal is to improve the generation and dissemination of information on climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction and related practices, leading to increased resilience in six Andean countries, through enhanced Weather, Water and Climate information and service provision for affected productive sectors and local populations including the most vulnerable.
Target groups Direct beneficiaries: National meteorological services, ministries (Environment, Agriculture, Disaster Risk Management), academia, private companies. Final beneficiaries: decision makers in in the Andean region; local population, including the most vulnerable.
Medium-term outcomes Outcome 1: The capacities of National Hydro Meteorological Services and Regional Climate Centres to produce and communicate weather, water and climate information and services have been strengthened. Outcome 2: Institutional coordination has been strengthened and new tools and processes have been incorporated that add value and make it possibl
