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Measuring a Project's Success

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Governments, development organizations and other entities spend billions each year on programs aimed at improving the lives of poor people in developing countries. But have these interventions actually made a difference? That's difficult to answer, says one IRI researcher, because many programs haven't been rigorously evaluated. She hopes to incorporate impact evaluations into some of IRI's climate-risk management projects.
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Recent news and publications...

IRI's seasonal precipitation forecasts behind the IFRC's latest emergency appeal for flood preparedness
in West and Central Africa. view

Scientists work on short-term climate predictions. (Aspen Times)  view

Why precipitation is mostly concentrated over islands in the Maritime Continent. (J. of the Atmos. Sci.) view

Long range forecast update for the 2008 south-west monsoon rainfall. (iClimate.net) view

Tufa Dinku, Simon Mason discuss the lack of access to weather information
in the developing world. (The World, BBC) view

Getting ahead of the curve in fighting disease. (Google.org blog) view

Climate informed flood frequency analysis and prediction in Montana using hierarchical
Bayesian modeling. (Geophysical Research Letters) view

Upcoming events and seminars...

July 16, 2008: IRI Seminar: Climate, Forecast and Impacts Briefing. view

July 18, 2008: A Scientist's Guide to Talking With the Media. Richard Hayes, author of the book by the same title, and Media Director at the Union of Concerned Scientists, empowers researchers to deal with the press. view

July 23, 2008: IRI Seminar: "An Assessment of the CFS Real-time Forecast," by Wanqui Wang, Climate Prediction Center, NCEP/NOAA. view


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