Reinforced cooperation to provide operational flood forecasting and alerts in West Africa

Project Information

FANFAR

Grant agreement ID: 780118

DOI 10.3030/780118

Project closed

EC signature date 4 December 2017

Start date 1 January 2018

End date 30 June 2021

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Total cost € 2 168 995,00

EU contribution € 1 999 532,50

Coordinated by

SVERIGES METEOROLOGISKA OCH HYDROLOGISKA INSTITUT
Sweden

Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

FANFAR project website and brochure
Website: OHFA support section on the H-TEP

Documents, reports (10)

Report on flood management test results
Report describing capacity development activities and material
Scientific publication submitted on MCDA and behavioural response
Report on the co-design workshops
Report documenting and explaining the data access interfaces
Report summarizing and exemplifying translated material
Report documenting and explaining the information derivation
Report on technical verification results
Report documenting and explaining the hydrological models
Report documenting and explaining the adaptation of the H-TEP

Report documenting and explaining the adaptation of the HTEP

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

Demonstrator of distribution channels deployed and pre-operational

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (3)

Downscaling Regional Hydrological Forecast for Operational Use in Local Early Warning: HYPE Models in the Sirba River

Author(s): Giovanni Massazza, Vieri Tarchiani, Jafet C. M. Andersson, Abdou Ali, Mohamed Housseini Ibrahim, Alessandro Pezzoli, Tiziana De Filippis, Leandro Rocchi, Bernard Minoungou, David Gustafsson, Maurizio Rosso
Published in: Water, Issue 12/12, 2020, Page(s) 3504, ISSN 2073-4441
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/w12123504

Creating effective flood warnings: A framework from a critical review

Author(s): Martijn Kuller, Kevin Schoenholzer, Judit Lienert
Published in: Journal of Hydrology, Issue 602, 2021, Page(s) 126708, ISSN 0022-1694
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126708

Using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for transdisciplinary co-design of the FANFAR flood forecasting and alert system in West Africa

Author(s): Lienert, J., Andersson, J., Hofmann, D., Silva Pinto, F., Kuller, M.
Published in: HESS (Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions), 2021, ISSN 1027-5606
Publisher: European Geophysical Society
DOI: 10.5194/hess-2021-177

Conference proceedings (7)

Effective Risk Communication for Early Flood Warning in West-Africa

Author(s): Martijn Kuller, Francisco Pinto, Kevin Schönholzer, and Judit Lienert
Published in: 2020
Publisher: European Geophysical Union (EGU)
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-9425

Flood forecasting and alerts in West Africa − experiences from co-developing a pre-operational system at regional scale

Author(s): Jafet Andersson, Abdou Ali, Berit Arheimer, Louise Crochemore, Bode Gbobaniyi, David Gustafsson, Mohamed Hamatan, Martijn Kuller, Judit Lienert, Melissande Machefer, Umar Magashi, Emmanuel Mathot, Bernard Minoungou, Aytor Naranjo, Tharcisse Ndayizigiye, Fabrizio Pacini, Francisco Silva Pinto, Léonard Santos, and Addi Shuaib
Published in: 2020
Publisher: EGU General Assembly 2020
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-7660

Co-designing a flood forecasting and alert system in West Africa with decision-making methods: the transdisciplinary project FANFAR

Author(s): Lienert, Judit; Andersson, Jafet; Silva Pinto, Francisco
Published in: 2020
Publisher: EGU General Assembly 2020
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-8127

Assessment of Flood Early Warning Systems with Social Media

Author(s): Hohmann, T., Lienert, J., Andersson, J., Molnar, D., Molnar, P., and Kuller, M.
Published in: 2021
Publisher: EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-8816
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-8816

Using seasonal forecast information to strengthen resilience and improve food security in Niger River Basin

Author(s): Minoungou, B., Andersson, J., Ali, A., and Hamatan, M
Published in: 2020
Publisher: EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-9006,
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-9006

Toward operational flood forecasting and warning services across West Africa – recent experiences at national and regional scales

Author(s): Andersson, J., Hamatan, M., Kuller, M., and Shuaib, A.
Published in: 2021
Publisher: EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-3027,
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-3027

Systematic User Feedback to Co-develop a Flood Early Warning System in West Africa

Author(s): Kuller, M., Andersson, J., and Lienert, J.
Published in: 2021
Publisher: EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-3136
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-3136

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Review of Early Warning Dissemination in Media and Assessment of Flood Early Warning Systems in Media

Author(s): Thierry Hohmann
Published in: 2021
Publisher: ETH Zurich
DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000468483