UNESCO is taking the lead in the extra budgetary project on "Climate Change Risk Management in Egypt (CCRME)" funded through UNDP by the MDG Spanish fund. The UNESCO Cairo Office is implementing this component in partnership with the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation in Egypt. The UNESCO Cairo Office organized a comprehensive need-based training activity on Providing Regional Climate Impact Studies (PRECIS) in Cairo during the period of 28 June – 2 July 2009 in Cairo, Egypt. More than 15 national experts of the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation attended the training. The main objective of the workshop was to build capacities to understand and simulate climate change models and scenarios in addition to run an ensemble of Regional Climate Models (RCM) simulations for the Nile Basin. The UK Met Office prepared the training material and conducted the training activity.
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