Invitation to Monitoring and Evaluation for Food Security and Nutrition Workshop Oct 04 2021

Official Email: training@fdc-k.org

Official Tel: +254 712 260 031

Visit Our Website: Foscore Development Center

Onsite Centers: Hilton Hotel or Meridian Hotel, Nairobi Kenya

Introduction
The main objective of the course is to enhance the capabilities of technical staff involved in Food Security Analysis, climate analysis, and agriculture by providing them with an understanding of the use of spatial and Earth Observation (EO) information as a tool to integrate knowledge about climate change, agriculture, and food security in a meaningful and innovative way.
No of Days
10 Days
Objectives

Understand the basic concepts of GIS and Remote Sensing
Apply GIS and RS for designing implementations of large scale early warning systems
Use participatory GIS (PGIS) tools during assessments at community level
Apply remote sensing data and image processing techniques to monitor select CCAFS indicators
Use mobile phones to gather data during field assessments/surveys
Design and implement their own GIS projects that integrate remote sensing data and GPS-based field information
Assess spatial data availability and understand the importance of spatial data infrastructure (SDI), for data sharing by organizations involved in CCAFS
Understand concepts and main frameworks in Food Security Analysis
Understand concepts and main frameworks in Climate Change Analysis
Understand concepts and main frameworks in Agriculture
Understand the relationship between climate change, agriculture, and food security
Apply GIS and Remote Sensing as Decision support tools for Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS).
Use GIS information in planning FS interventions through spatial multi-criteria analysis

Course Outline
Key concepts and definitions

Introduction to climate change, Agriculture, Food security and their relationship
GIS for climate change, Agriculture, and Food security
Introduction to GIS and R.S concepts in the context of climate change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS)
GIS project design and setup
Sources of GIS data for CCAFS
Basic use of GIS Software
Integrating data from different sources into a GIS
Using handheld GPS for field data collection
Geospatial Analysis for Agriculture and food security
Mapping
Mapping areas of climate change
Mapping areas of food insecurity
Remote Sensing in CCAFS
Introduction to Remote sensing
Remote sensing
Use of Remote sensing and image analysis software
Satellite Image Acquisition
Image interpretation
Image
Image classification
Change detection

The impacts of climate change on agriculture and food security

Use of GIS in Climate Predictions
Response to climate change: Adaptation and mitigation: the climate analog tool
Role of climatic change detection on Agriculture and food security
International and National Policy Framework for addressing climate change; UNFCCC Kyoto protocol and existing local policies

GIS and Remote sensing in Agriculture

Yield monitoring and mapping
Characterizing soil spatial variability
Site? specific soil management: prescription maps
Grid sampling, management zones, realistic yield expectations
Remote sensing (RS) for the site? specific management.

Assessment and Analysis

Food Security Assessment and Analysis
The use of satellite imagery for food insecurity detection and recovery
Visualization of vulnerability information
Assessing food insecurity impact
Climate change sources of uncertainty and variation

Global Positioning System (GPS) and Basic GPS skills

Types of GPS
GPS configuration, Capturing data from surveys
GPS data download and related tasks
Integrating GPS field data into the GIS database

Public Participatory GIS and data collection using mobile phones

Participatory GIS methods
Participatory GIS and HVR analysis
Community-based climate predictions
Using GIS to Build hazard-aware and ready communities
Use of Mobile Phones for GIS Data collection in Assessment and Surveys

General Notes

All our courses can be Tailor-made to participants needs
The participant must be conversant with English
Presentations are well guided, practical exercises, web-based tutorials, and group work. Our facilitators are experts with more than 10years of experience.
Upon completion of training, the participant will be issued with a Foscore development center certificate (FDC-K)
Training will be done at the Foscore development center (FDC-K) center in Nairobi Kenya. We also offer more than five participants training at the requested location within Kenya, more than ten participants within east Africa, and more than twenty participants all over the world.
Course duration is flexible and the contents can be modified to fit any number of days.

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