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GMES for Africa: Regional Network for Information Exchange and Training in Emergencies (GARNET-E)
Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2012,
"To enable and enhance the ability of African states to use satellite Earth Observation for the management of natural and man-made humanitarian emergencies. To develop a network of EU, African organisations and African users, in order to build economic, technical and commercial capacity within African states, along the priority lines being identified in consultation with the African Union under th ...
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Scenarios for hazard emergencies management (SCHEMA)
Start date: Aug 1, 2007, End date: Jul 31, 2010,
A consortium of 11 organisations proposes a research project involving international cooperation: they aim at using earth observation data to develop a generic methodology able to help experts build vulnerability and hazard impact maps associated with tsunamis. Involving Morocco and Bulgaria, GEOSCIENCES will coordinate the design and development of this vulnerability map creation technique which ...
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Integrated Risk Management for Africa (IRMA)
Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2009,
Disaster risk reduction policies and institutional mechanism exist at various degrees of completeness in the African countries part of the consortium. Their effectiveness is however limited when having to deal with major disasters and complex emergencies. Risk management is often limited to specific hazard monitoring with limited or no consideration of the vulnerability of the area at risk neither ...
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