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Climate Services Partnership


The Climate Services Partnership (CSP) is a platform for knowledge sharing and collaboration aimed at promoting resilience and advancing climate service capabilities worldwide. The CSP is an informal, interdisciplinary network of climate information users, providers, donors, and researchers who share an interest in climate services. Members and collaborators are actively involved in the climate services community. The participants recognize that their collaborative efforts have the potential to exceed those of any single institution acting alone.

The CSP focuses its work on three levels: Forging connections among climate information providers, users, researchers, and donors; Sharing knowledge and lessons learned on the development of effective climate services; and Creating new knowledge and best practices on the design and structure of climate services.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) provides financial support to the Climate Services Partnership through the Climate Change Resilient Development (CCRD) Project, implemented by Engility Corporation.

Visit the Climate Services Partnership website for more information.

Field Trip to Mafoota Village, Jamaica

Some of the participants of the third International Conference on Climate Services visited the village of Mafoota, a small farming community in the Parish of St James. The farmers are organized into a cooperative and supply the hotel sector in the St James area (which includes Montego Bay). The trip was organized by the Jamaican Rural Agricultural Development Agency (RADA) and was financially supported by the CGIAR's Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security Program (CCAFS).

OTHER CLIMATE SERVICES WORK
In May 2015, a new book titled Valuing Weather and Climate: Economic Assessment of Meteorological and Hydrological Services will be released at the World Meteorological Organization's World Congress in Geneva. USAID/CCRD collaborated with two partners on its development – WMO and World Bank. Ten other authors contributed to the chapters, and approximately three dozen peer reviewers submitted detailed comments to the editing team. Read more about the book HERE.