1. WASCAL: A Climate Service Center
Devising resilient and productive land uses through capacity building, research and services provision
Mouhamadou Bamba SYLLA, Senior scientist climate change and climate modeling
WASCAL Competence Center, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

2. Training and Capacity building
Three pillars of WASCAL
Services Provision
● Climate
● Environmental
Research
● Climate science
● Biophysical & socioeconomic studies
● GIS & Remote sensing
● Data infrastructure
Training and Capacity building
● Graduate studies
● In-house training
● Capacity strengthening

3. Research structure Climate and environmental services
● RC1: Climate Change and Variability
● RC2: Hydrology and Water Resources Management
● RC3: Sustainable Land Use and Agriculture
● RC4: Institutions, Governance and Socio-economics
● RC5: Ecosystem Change and Ecosystem Services
● RC6: Impact Analysis and Risk Assessment.
● Observation network
● GIS and Remote Sensing Unit
● Data Centre
● HPC environment
Climate and environmental
services

4. New strategic research plan (2018-2021)
Outcomes of the participatory consultations in ECOWAS member states
- CoA 1.1 Climate Services for Informed Decision Making
- CoA 1.2 Environmental Services for Improved and Productive Land Use Systems
FP1. Services Provision
- CoA 2.1 Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services
- CoA 2.2 Scaling up/out Resilient Governance Models
FP2. Resilient Socio-Ecological Landscapes
WASCAL Multidisciplinary Observation Networks and Multi-stakeholders Innovation Platforms across West Africa
- CoA 3.1 Scaling up/out Improved Water and Nutrient Use Efficiency Practices
- CoA 3.2 Scaling up/out Integrated Crop and Livestock Production Systems
FP3. Sustainable Intensification for Food Security
- CoA 4.1 Climate Monitoring and Prediction
- CoA 4.2 Improved Seasonal Forecasting of Extremes
FP4. Climate Modelling and Seasonal Forecasting

5. Pathway to service delivery
By 2021:
Climate and Environmental Services
WASCAL Research Action Plan
● Resilient Socio-Ecological Landscapes
● Sustainable Intensification for Food Security
● Climate Modelling and Seasonal Forecasting
WASCAL Core Research Program:

6. Potential climate-led services
● Seasonal monitoring of water bodies and wet land
● Information on climate and environmental risks
● Climate change profile, irrigation potential and crop suitability under 1.5 o C and 2 o C warming scenarios
● Land degradation index map and the economic cost of degraded lands
● West Africa Climate Change Knowledge Dissemination Platform
● Biodiversity and carbon stocks profile under climate change scenarios

7. Thank you!