To help guide the FCFA programme, the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) was commissioned by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to undertake a scoping phase.
The focus of the FCFA is to advance scientific knowledge, understanding and prediction of African climate variability and change on five to 40 year timescales, together with support for integration of science into longer-term decision making leading to improved climate risk management and the protection of lives and livelihoods.
The paper investigates the current and potential use of long-term climate information for decision making for hydropower schemes in sub-Saharan Africa. Hydropower schemes are long-lived infrastructure. These are pieces of infrastructure that usually can be maintained for a significantly greater number of years than most other capital assets.
