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Mitigating Climate Disaster: IRC Seeks Expansion of MoU with NiMet

…Expresses satisfaction with NiMet

 By Seun Adams

Satisfied with the success attained in the execution of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed with the  Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet), in 2022, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), has proposed an offer to expand and extend the scope and duration of the existing MoU between both organisations.

This was disclosed during  a courtesy visit by the IRC team to the NiMet Headquarters, Abuja, on Thursday, led by the IRC Governance Coordinator, Dorcas Kingsley David

In her remarks, she explained that IRC and NiMet had previously signed a one-year MoU on a project that recorded great success in Yola, Adamawa State

The team leader added that following the critical role played by NiMet in attaining this feat, IRC was prompted to seek for a broad ranging collaboration whereby NiMet and IRC can have a long-term partnership on the provision of weather and climate services as well as help design  projects targeted at mitigating climate disasters and enhancing early warning for communities across Nigeria.

Expressing further the aim of the intending MoU between IRC and NiMet, the Governance Coordinator said that the collaboration will enable access to rainfall data, develop a trigger system for rainfall and rainfall intensity alert, flood forecast and subsequent provision of early warning alert to communities.

The Director General of NiMet Prof. Mansur Bako Matazu, who was represented by the Director of Applied Meteorological Services, Prof. Charles Anosike, disclosed that NiMet has an established interest in Public Private  Partnership and has been collaborating with various stakeholders to provide climate services that is tailor made to enhance sustainable development as well as improve the socio-economic well-being of the nation.

Matazu, also noted that the expansion of the MoU is an essential development as it enables NiMet and IRC to extend their reach and build a community that is weather smart as well as implement policies and services that can mitigate climate disaster.

Matazu, while concluding his remarks, commended the effort of the IRC on her strategic action plan to curb climate disaster and reiterates that NiMet is committed to providing quality, accurate and timely climate advisories geared towards the support of human development as well as create awareness on the socio economic impacts of climate and weather on different sectors of the nation’s economy.

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