Project introduction
VITO establishes an open web-based urban climate change information platform for Niamey, Niger. The platform is tailored to suit the needs of local authorities and stakeholders from civil society. Uptake of the U-CLIP platform by these local actors will assist the formulation of widely supported measures to enhance Niamey’s resilience to projected impacts of climate change.
The project also entails a plan to achieve a massive upscaling of the u-CLIP platform towards other cities across the African continent.
Project highlights
- Digital platform with high-resolution urban climate information
- Identification of the urban heat island effects now and in the future
- Support for Niamey city officials to moderate the impact of heat waves for the health sector and to enforce the energy sector with information about cooling degree days
- Involvement of city officials, councils, youth and local urban planning experts
Objective
To strengthen, through the U-CLIP platform, the resilience of African cities to climate change impacts
Facts
Budget: 316,000 EUR, of which 90% funded by a grant from Enabel’s Wehubit programme
Partners
- ACMAD, the African Centre for Meteorological Applications for Development
- Ville de Niamey (Département de l’environnement et des aménagements paysagers)
