UPCOMING EGU2026 TOWNHALL MEETING

UPCOMING EGU2026 TOWNHALL MEETING Join us at #EGU2026 Townhall TM6: Exploring remote sensing and in-situ observations in hard-to-reach areas. Beers and finger food are on us 🍺 🗓 Wednesday, 6 May | 19:00–20:00 CEST📍 Room 1.31/32 (Vienna) + Online for registered participants Register with this Link.🔗 https://www.egu26.eu/session/59094 After a long day of sessions, come wind down […]

Implementation of the TEMBO Africa Project: Pilot of Germination Index Insurance in Northern Ghana

Implementation of the TEMBO Africa Project: Pilot of Germination Index Insurance in Northern Ghana The TEMBO Africa Project is advancing innovative, data-driven approaches to strengthen climate resilience among smallholder farmers, particularly in regions where agricultural productivity is highly sensitive to rainfall variability. As part of this effort, a pilot implementation of the Germination Index Insurance […]

TEMBO Project Strengthens Flood Early Warning Systems in Kenya

TEMBO Project Strengthens Flood Early Warning Systems in Kenya Advancing Climate Resilience through the TEMBO Project On World Meteorological Day 2026, the global community reflects on the vital role of weather, water, and climate services in safeguarding lives and supporting sustainable development. Guided by the theme “Observing Today, Protecting Tomorrow,” this year’s celebration underscores the […]

Strengthening Early Warning in Africa (SEWA) Scoping Study Workshop

Africa continues to experience a disproportionate burden of climate change impacts, marked by an increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, storms, and heatwaves. In its press release of 2 September 2024 and the State of the Climate in Africa 2024 report, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) emphasized the urgent need to strengthen Early Warning Systems

Africa-EU collaboration

Africa-EU collaboration Africa is a continent on the rise. With over a billion people, the youngest population in the world (60 % of Africans are under the age of 25) and vast natural resources, it is brimming with potential. It also has a rapidly growing middle class, which means an increasing demand for resources, infrastructure […]

Tembo joined World Water Week 2025 to talk about ennsuring inclusive and sustainable Early Warning

TEMBO AFRICA joined World Water Week 2025 to talk about ensuring inclusive and sustainable Early Warning #WorldWaterWeek2025From Warning to Action: Ensuring inclusive and sustainable Early Warning.At World Water Week 2025, TAHMO’s CEO, Dr. Frank Annor, highlighted the critical role of maintaining Flood Early Warning Systems (FEWS) to ensure they are inclusive, sustainable, and future-proof. Dr. […]

TEMBO Africa – Transformative Environmental Monitoring

TEMBO Africa – Transformative Environmental Monitoring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh2ECbhFIdU Our ambition is to close the environmental in situ data gap in Africa. To fulfill this ambition our general objective is to have cost-effective innovative sensor networks that can be financed by the climate services we develop using these sensors. First, we build on recent sensor technology to […]

Low-cost solutions improve water management in Africa

Africa is home to over 1 billion people, and it has one of the fastest growing populations in the world. To better manage its resources, Africa needs economically sustainable solutions for water monitoring. The EU-funded TEMBO Africa project aims to reduce the cost of measuring hydrological variables for three water-related services by more than 90 %.

Global Forum of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) in Rome, Italy

Project coordinator, Nick van de Giesen, represented TEMBO at the Global Forum of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) in Rome, Italy this week.
He showcased the TEMBO poster at the European Union booth, highlighting our efforts to close the environmental in situ data gap in Africa.
Great to see TEMBO featured, fostering collaboration and innovation.

TEMBO Africa Consortium Gathers in Nairobi for M26 General Assembly

TEMBO Africa Consortium Gathers in Nairobi for M26 General Assembly The TEMBO Africa consortium is a multi-partner EU-funded project focused on transformative, low-cost environmental monitoring across Africa, held its M26 General Assembly in Nairobi over five days in March 2025, bringing together partners from TU Delft, TAHMO, AgroApps, Rainbow Sensing, KMD, UNZA, UDS, GAIP, GReD, […]