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Project Period
March 2016 – August 2019

German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety BMUB

Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GIZ

, Berlin, Germany
, Lomé, Togo
, Cotonou, Benin
, Dakar, Senegal
, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso The project focuses on the following four components Latest & Publications Briefings (in French)


Publications (in French)



About component 2 implemented by Climate Analytics

Climate Analytics is responsible for component 2 which aims to improve the scientific capacity of various national actors for the planning of adaptation measures. More specifically, Climate Analytics accompanies national universities, research institutes and government agencies (so-called Climate Service Providers -CSPs) in conducting in-depth vulnerability studies and in identifying climate change adaptation priorities and measures. Science-based documents drafted jointly with the CSPs are submitted to policy-makers with the aim to increase the integration of scientific information into national policy formulation processes and more generally to support science-based decision-making in the region.

For each country, during the initial phase, stocktakings about the scientific knowledge and integration of climate change in policies and strategies for the vulnerable sectors are undertaken.

In Benin and Senegal, three priority sectors for the vulnerability studies were determined. Three research groups have been formed to conduct the vulnerability studies in the three specific sectors identified for each country. Each research group brings together the relevant scientific institutions for the sector (approximately 12 for each sector) and is supervised by a monitoring committee comprising policy-makers, local authorities, civil society and the private sector. The methodology for the in-depth vulnerability studies was developed and adopted, and these six studies are currently being conducted. Impact chains will be developed to evaluate the future vulnerability and will allow to identify adaptation options.

The purpose of this component is to integrate the scientific results into the NAP formulation. Once the project has been completed, the policy-makers and civil servants working for the government will be able to use the science-based information on climate change efficiently and the national scientific institutions involved will be able to conduct vulnerability studies autonomously to support NAP processes in the long term.

Timeline of component 2

Where we are now…

After over a year of project implementation, the following results were achieved:

…and where we are headed

In the months ahead, we look forward to:

January – April 2019
Final results workshops on the vulnerability studies in Benin and Senegal and communication of the results

Second technical workshop on the vulnerability studies in Burkina