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The mission of the International Research Centre on El Niño (CIIFEN) is to promote and develop actions to consolidate science-policy interaction and the strengthening of climate and ocean services aiming to contribute on risk management and adaptation to better cope climate change and climate variability.
Climate Outlook Forum for Western South America
RALCEA
Regional Climate Center for Western South America (implementation phase)
Hydrological Seasonal Forecast Group
Regional Modeling Group
South America Climate Extremes Group
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The activities of CIIFEN are connected to Priority 1 by contributing on partnership development and coordination for institutional strengthening at regional level.
The lines of CIIFEN action have focused in the development of regional climate models to improve early warning and scenarios for regional adaptation to climate change; the generation of scenarios of climate risk in agriculture, environment, and others at regional scale; basic scientific research and training of scientists; the Articulation of regional and extra-scientific networks and the establishment of a regional Information System aimed to coordinate and disseminate through a complex network of institutions and mechanisms the information in a specific format for a particular actor, establishing differences in content and form to send information to government agencies, scientists, civil defense authorities, branches, trade union groups and the general public with strategies that range from the use of a virtual core, linked by the Internet, up an explanatory leaflet with graphics from the threat of an El Niño event and the participatory role of the community.
The CIIFEN integrates existing networks and institutions, seeking to maximize the capacity created by strengthening the areas that are of greatest weakness at present and delivers added value to existing products, linking scientific and technological support to the social sectors through the tools for decision making in economic, planning and prevention.
The programs in which the CIIFEN collaborates, both in ocean observation (GRASP, the GOOS Regional Alliance for the South Pacific), and the World Program of Applications and Climatic Services (CLIPS), led by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), keep close to the forefront of societal applied sciences and provide us a versatile framework to allow a continuous impulse in the disaster prevention and risk management capacities to face hazardous episodes in the region. In this sense, CIIFEN maintains collaboration agreements with the main world Climate Prediction and Research Centers and several academic entities related with disasters prevention, sustainable development, and scientific research, which bring mutual benefits.
CIIFEN contributes for preparedness and affective response by delivering El Niño mapping for Western South America countries to undertake preparedness to reduce El Niño and climate impacts.
Voluntary Commitments
The Sendai Framework Commitments (SFVC) online platform serves to incentivize stakeholders to inform the public about their work, to provide a vehicle for sharing commitments and initiatives and for motivation toward the implementation of the Sendai Framework. In turn, UNDRR can monitor and take stock of the progress and impact.
International Research Centre on El Niño is involved in the following commitments:
