Development of a Drought and Yield Assessment System in Kenya

Dependence on rainfed agriculture in a highly variable climate, renders crop and livestock production vulnerable to impacts of drought in Kenya. Stakeholders in the region have highlighted the need for timely and actionable detailed early warning information on drought and its implication on crop productivity. Here we apply the Regional Hydrological Extremes Assessment System (RHEAS) to estimate current and future drought conditions onset, severity, recovery, and duration) and expected productivity outlooks

Use of personal digital assistants in household surveys in demographic surveillance systems : final report

The project aimed to ensure better resource allocation decisions for health purposes in Least Developed Countries (LDC) such as Tanzania, by improving data gathering and analysis using Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs). As well, it helped establish the feasibility of employing paperless data collection methods in demographic surveillance systems (DSS). This paper reports on the project activities and outcomes. It focuses on methodology as well as experiences of researchers and survey respondents