Lead organisation: Trans African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory (TAHMO)
Local partners
- African Centers for Lightning and Electromagnetics
- Climate Change Adaptation Innovation
- Uganda National Meteorological Authority
- National Meteorological and Hydrological Services
International partners
- Earth Networks
- Human Network International
Trans African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory (TAHMO) received funding to empower local communities and vulnerable agriculturists across Uganda with an innovative early warning weather system for severe weather across the drought prone Cattle Corridor, the accident prone areas of Lake Victoria, Kyoga, and Wamala, and Uganda’s flash flood prone highlands. Leveraging the prevalence of cell phones across the country, the team partnered with mobile operators and the Ugandan National Meteorological Authority to provide low cost, on-demand access to weather alerts to more than 16 million Ugandan cell phone users and free access to all 8 million Airtel subscribers. Click here to download the solution statement.
Key Achievements:
- Deployed 40 automatic weather stations across Uganda and trained eight UNMA staff on their installation and maintenance;
- Delivery of EWS information to approximately 1.2 million people across the following pathways targetting the same population:
- Close to 1.8 Million unique users invited to the 1-6-1 platform,
- 450,000 people have been active users of the platform,
- 420,000 respondents receiving sms information in CHAI Districts,
- An estimated 500,000 receiving information via radio broadcasts.
- About 500 decision makers are receiving information by email.
- TAHMO & CHAI are involved in the TWIGA project which received funding that enables the continuation of project activities in Uganda and enhance the scaling-up to Kenya and Mozambique.
- TAHMO received support to deliver data to IBM’s Weather Channel.