The African Union Commission (AUC) has named the Nigeria’s
Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU),
Ile-Ife, and 12 others the regional implementing centres for the Global Monitoring for Environment and
Security and Africa (GMES and Africa) Support Programme, reports ITRealms.
OAU is the
only Nigerian university that made the top 13 awarded this grant for water and
natural resources service, while West Africa saw the Senegalese Centre de Suivi
Ecologique (CSE) and University of Ghana (UG) for Marine and coastal areas
service making the list.
The
Commissioner for Human Resources, Science and Technology at the African Union
Commission, Professor Sarah Anyang Agbor, revealed this at a ceremony during the
5th AU-EU Summit in Abidjan, Cote d`Ivoire, to unveil the winners of GMES and
Africa support programme.
Agbor also commended
the successful institutions on their selection, which she said was based on
their experience and proven capacities, just as she implored them to deliver
the goods.
ITRealms also reports that other 12 institutions
to serve as Regional Implementing Centres GMES and Africa Support Programme, to
include the Central African based Agence Gabonaise d'Etudes et d'Observations
Spatiale (AGEOS) and Commission Internationale du Bassin Congo-Oubangui-Sangha
(CICOS) for Water and natural resources service.
At the East
Africa, ITRealms reports that the IGAD Climate Prediction and Application
Centre (ICPAC) and Regional Centre for Mapping off Resources for Development
(RCMRD) for Water and natural resources service, in addition to Mauritius
Oceanography Institute (MOI) for Marine and coastal areas service made the
consortia.
While the North
African-based National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences
(NARSS) for marine and coastal area service, as well as the Observatoire du
Sahara et du Sahel (OSS) for water and natural resources service were
successful.
And in the
Southern Africa, AUC said the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
(CSIR) for marine and coastal areas service; Southern African Development
Community Climate Services Centre (SADC-CSC) and Southern African Science
Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL) for
water and natural resources service, made the awardees list.
ITRealms recollects that in May 2017, a
number of African institutions operating in the areas of water, natural
resources, marine and coastal areas, applied for the GMES and Africa Support
Programme Grants.
Uju N. Dominic/GEE
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