TIGER Capacity Building Facility (2nd phase)

The TIGER Capacity Building Facility (TCBF) has been established to support 20 African institutions to carry out their TIGER research projects on Earth Observation applications for water management.

After a successful first phase, the TIGER initiative was endorsed by AMCOW for its second phase (2009 - 2011). The TCBF is carried out by a consortium consisting of ITC (lead), TUDelft, ISEGI-UNL and VITO.

Furthermore three African regional institutions are involved: RCMRD, AGRHYMET and WRC.

Project number	n/a
Subject(s)	AGRICULTURE , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , TOOL TERMS , WATER DEMAND
Acronym	TIGER II
Geographical coverage	Africa, Morocco, Egypt, Mauritania
Budget (in €)	800000
Programme	ESA Contract education
Web site	http://www.itc.nl/Pub/services/Major-projects/TIGER_2nd_phase.html
Objectives	The main objective of the TCBF is to provide supervision and training to the project holders. TCBF activities are: a) management, coordination and reporting, b) support to the TIGER regional offices, c) delivery of training sessions, d) tailored capacity building activities, e) communication and promotion and d) resource mobilization.
Period	[01/07/2009 - 30/06/2012]

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