WMO Regional Institute

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• WMO Regional Institute
• Institute for Meteorological Training and
  Research
• IGAD Drought and Flood Monitoring Centre
• Nairobi, Kenya

• Training
• Research
• Advisory services
• Data Management

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• IMTR mission
• Building regional capacity in the fields of
  water, weather,
• climate and environment in terms of human
  resources
• and infrastructure development.
• Transfer of knowledge, conduct of research and
  advisory
• services in joint partnerships with other
  national, regional
• and international institutions.

IMTR Vision To be leading in Regional training
and research in Water, Weather, Climate and
Environment
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Hydrology programme

• Started in 1991
• University of Nairobi
• WMO
• University Brussels
• University of Perugia (Italy)
• University College Galway (Ireland)
• UNESCO-IHE

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1996- 2004 Water Management and Info Systems

• Project UNESCO-IHE
• Support for Post-Graduate Education in
  Applied Hydrology and Water Management for the
  Anglophone African Region
• Course
• International postgraduate course in Applied
  Hydrology and Information Systems for Water
  Management

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Project objectives

• Institutional development of IMTR and UoN
• Academic development
• Research development
• Staff development
• Sustainable training capacity in the water sector

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Training courses

• Hydrological data base management
• Modelling of surface water, groundwater,
• water quality
• GIS, WRM, Remote sensing (Eumetsat)
• 2nd generation meteo satellites
• Drought and flood forecasting
• Meteorology and agro-hydromet

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Partnership

• IGAD Drought Monitoring Centre
• Eumetsat
• Meteo France, British Meteo, EC, USGS

• UoN, Department of Meteorology
• UNESCO-IHE, The Netherlands
• WMO

• Institute of Hydrology (UK)
• UNESCO
• Siegen University , Germany
• Regional Universities (Khartoum, DAR, etc.)
• WaterNet

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Capacity

• PG courses, Univ of Nairobi
• Website, ECL oriented
• More than 100 trainees
• 15 MSc Staff, KMD pool
• Eumetsat, Meteo, WaterNet
• Computer Environmental lab
• Direct satellite communication

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Future

• Regional focal point in Water and Climate
• East Africa/Kenya Water Knowledge Core
• Training (IMTR), Research (IGAD)
• E-learning, Knowledge Provider
• Community of Practice, coordination
• Partnerships, Networks
• Research, demand training, advisory

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Water and Climate

• Master courses in Climate Variability, Climate
  Change and
• Water Management
• Training in Regional Water and Climate Issues
• Training of Trainers in Water and Climate
  Variability
• Research on Impacts of Climate variability
• Flood and drought assessment