SAFE4ALL in Nairobi: Moving Beyond the Halfway Point from Project Progress to Practical Impact
April 20, 2026
With SAFE4ALL now well past its halfway point, the General Assembly and Technical Days in Nairobi came at the right moment to reflect on what the project has achieved so far and where it is heading next. Held from 24 to 27 March 2026 at the Institute for Meteorological Training and Research of the Kenya Meteorological Department, the meetings brought together project partners, meteorological services, and a wider group of stakeholders for four days of discussion, exchange, and practical work.
General Assembly
The General Assembly created a valuable moment to pause and take in the broader direction of SAFE4ALL. It brought together reflections on the project’s progress so far with a shared look ahead to the priorities that will shape the coming phase. As SAFE4ALL moves further from development and testing towards implementation, uptake, and long-term impact in Ghana, Kenya, and Zimbabwe, the meeting helped sharpen a common sense of purpose across the partnership.
A clear thread running through the discussions was the close connection between climate change, food security, and migration – a relationship that continues to define the project’s core ambition. That wider perspective was matched by a strong focus on practical application: shaping tools and outputs that are not only technically robust but also accessible, relevant, and genuinely useful in everyday contexts. This gave particular weight to conversations around country roadmaps, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, learning activities, and communication.
The meeting also looked firmly ahead. Presentations captured progress in field activities, Living Labs, tool development, and the Learning Program, while meteorological services added a particularly concrete perspective on what comes next: more localized climate services, stronger last-mile communication, and closer integration with existing systems and decision-making. Taken together, the discussions painted the picture of a project growing steadily closer to practice and increasingly focused on lasting value.
Technical Days
While the General Assembly looked at the broader direction of SAFE4ALL, the Technical Days shifted the focus firmly to practice. They brought together an even broader mix of participants meteorological services, extension officers, champion farmers, universities, NGOs, policymakers, and climate professionals and created a setting centred on direct exchange, shared learning, and hands-on engagement with SAFE4ALL tools and approaches.
That practical energy shaped the entire programme. Across the sessions, participants explored how climate information can be used, communicated, and turned into action through digital tools, forecasting support, climate stories, and climate impact diagrams. The discussions kept returning to an essential point: effective climate services depend not only on strong data or well-designed platforms, but on whether they are clear, accessible, and meaningful for the people using them in everyday life.
The Technical Days also showed the value of combining technical depth with openness to experience and to experience and dialogue.
Some sessions delved deeply into specific tools and methods, while others opened space for local perspectives, shared reflection, and cross-sector discussion. That balance captured the SAFE4ALL approach especially well – connecting research, technical development, and local knowledge in ways that support decisions on the ground and strengthen the foundations for impact that lasts beyond the project itself.
