OVERCOME - digital innOVation in flood Early warning and wateR-related disease prevention for COMmunity capacity building and rEsilience

来自英国、加纳、马拉维、莫桑比克和津巴布韦的合作伙伴将在气候和气象学、水文学和水资源、洪水预报、干旱、水质、流行病学和公共卫生、智能技术、数据科学、环境科学、水、卫生和卫生(WASH)、风险沟通、灾害管理、社会和政策科学以及社会经济学方面贡献知识和技能。这项合作将结合多学科知识，开发一种新的整体框架，以预测洪水/干旱和相关疾病暴发的影响。CONTROLE也得到了全球专家和当地主要利益相关者的大力支持。外部合作伙伴将在整个项目中指导研究方向，贡献他们的互补知识，并通过其强大的国际网络让团队与更多的合作伙伴接触。OVERCOME将在一个非洲合作伙伴的国家组织一次启动会议，以(1)向非洲国家的主要利益攸关方介绍我们的研究想法；(2)允许参与各方相互学习每个机构可以为CONTRONCE联盟做出贡献的能力；(3)了解利益相关者对项目的期望；(4)确定研究方面的知识差距和财团内部所需的额外专业知识。在启动会议之后，加纳、马拉维、莫桑比克和津巴布韦的牵头伙伴将进一步接触本国的其他合作伙伴，以补充财团内的技能。将组织网络和能力建设讲习班(NCBW)，让当地利益攸关方参与共同设计研究方法和成果，以确保项目成果将被利益攸关方采纳，用于现实世界的做法，从而对社区产生长期影响。将为当地利益攸关方举办地方利益攸关方参与讲习班，以审查最后的第二阶段提案并提供反馈。与会者将评估WGS的目标和计划任务，以形成惠及大多数利益相关者和弱势社区的研究主题。我们亦会与其他财团、项目和专业团体通力合作，进一步加强财团，提升研究视野，为全面研究收集数据，以及扩大项目的影响。

OVERCOME consortium include world-leading organisations to develop state-of-the-art research plan that integrates digital innovations in natural hazard and risk predictions in order to develop intervention strategies for strengthening the resilience of vulnerable communities against climate hazards and health impacts.The partners from the UK, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe will contribute knowledge and skills in climate and meteorology, hydrology and water resources, flood forecasting, droughts, water quality, epidemiology and public health, smart technologies, data science, environmental science, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), risk communication, disaster management, social and policy sciences, and socio-economics. The collaboration will combine multidisciplinary knowledge to develop a novel holistic framework to forecast the impact of floods/droughts and associated disease outbreaks. OVERCOME also has strong support from global experts and local major stakeholders. The external partners will steer research direction throughout the project, contribute their complementary knowledge, and engage the team with additional partners through their strong international networking.OVERCOME will organise a kick-off meeting in one African partner's country to (1) brief our research ideas to the key stakeholders in African countries; (2) allow for all parties involved to learn from each other the capacity that each institution can contribute to the OVERCOME consortium; (3) understand the expectations that the stakeholders have on the project; (4) identify the knowledge gaps in research and the extra expertise required within the consortium.Following the kick-off meeting, the lead partners in Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe will further reach out to additional partners in their countries to complement the skills within the consortium. Networking and Capacity Building Workshops (NCBWs) will be organised to incorporate local stakeholders for co-designing research methodology and outcomes to ensure that the project outputs will be adopted by stakeholders for real-world practices to deliver long-term impact to communities. Local Stakeholder Engagement Workshops will be held for local stakeholders to review and feedback on the final second stage proposal. The participants will evaluate the objectives and planned tasks from WGs for shaping research topics to benefit most stakeholders and vulnerable communities. The engagement can also examine and guarantee the feasibility of proposed solutions.We will also synergise with other consortia, projects, and professional groups to further strengthen the consortium, enhance the research vision, collect data for the full research, and widen the impact from the project.