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Filipe Lucio, director of the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) Office in the WMO Secretariat, delivered a 45-minute Climate Classroom lesson on Climate Services for Decision Making on 8 November 2017 at the COP23 Climate Action Studio in in Bonn, Germany.

To date, regional institutional actions have been more project focused rather than strategic as part of delivering climate services in the West African region.

Meteorologists, sectoral experts, and representatives from farmer organizations, climate service user groups, rural extension services, media groups, civil society , private sector, donors and Dakar-based United Nations organizations came together at the Senegalese Meteorological Service (ANACIM) on 11 August 2017 to agree on a final list of activities for Se

The steering committee for the National Framework for Climate Services (NFCS) in Niger held its first session on 18 July 2017 under the chairmanship of the Secretary General of the Ministry of Transport.

Experts from the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center team conducted a training workshop at the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) in Niamey, Niger from 17 to 21 July 2017.

For the first time in history, Senegal held a National Climate Outlook Forum, convening multidisciplinary sectoral representatives to discuss the 2017 seasonal precipitation forecast for the country

Pour la première fois dans l'histoire, le Sénégal a organisé un Forum national sur les perspectives climatique, convoquant des représentants sectoriels pluridisciplinaires pour discuter des prévisions de précipitations saisonnières de 2017 pour le pays

Twenty years after the first West African Regional Outlook Forum, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Humanitarian organizations organized a historic DRR consultation at the 2017 Seasonal Forecasting Forum organization