Improving Smallholder Resilience through Customized Climate Services Assitance to weather and climate forecast with a focus on agricultural end user.

•	Impact: Increased resilience and well-being of small holder farmers in Ethiopia and Malawi to increasing weather and climate risks
•	Intermediate Outcome: Use of forecasts and agricultural meteorological knowledge in decision making
•	Short-term outcome: Agricultural Meteorological Knowledge
•	Output: Weather and climate knowledge
•	Input: Co-production and provision of information

The consortia consist of NORCAP as a lead, the research institutions NORSE, Christian Michelsens Institute (CMI) and NMBU, and the Norwegian Development Fund. The roles are:

NMBU: Investigate the contextual conditions affecting the scope for delivering and deploying the user-oriented CIS that will be developed under the program. This will lay the foundation for developing inclusive and gender-responsive climate services that harness local knowledge and capacities, enhance climate resilience, and increase food and nutritional security for male and female smallholders.
NORSE: Co-producing needs-based, improved sub-seasonal to seasonal weather forecasts for Malawi and Ethiopia. A social scientist’s team will aim to understand the CS value cycle, while meteorologists and climate scientists will work on the upstream quality of climate information, as well as the downstream needs-based forecast products.
CMI: Will design and implement an impact evaluation in the form of a randomized control trial (RCT). They also have diverse and interdisciplinary expertise and in-depth contextual knowledge about Ethiopia and Malawi.
Norw. Dev. Fund: Impl. institution working directly with smallholder farmers who are actively engaged in crop production, to deliver tailored CIS to each context in a timely and efficient manner. Their work will identify vulnerable context, both in terms of those most affected by climate change to provide the best disaster risk reduction, and to identify gender-disaggregated info.