Since July 2016, the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Climate Hazards Center (CHC) has worked with the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) through support from the SERVIR-Applied Sciences Team (AST) program to empower technical professionals in key regions of southern and eastern Africa by utilizing various methods of capacity building, transfers of technology, and an “empower-the-trainers” approach.  To briefly summarize the project—which will end in June 2019—the primary outcome of employing a variety of techniques to best equip trainees to integrate Earth observation (EO) information and geospatial technologies into their climate services to regional decision makers has been largely successful.  Additionally, the project allows the CHC to further its own mission of protecting the lives and livelihoods of at-risk communities through hands-on trainings and demonstrations of CHC tools and techniques that allow for early warning as it relates to food security and climate. Knowledge sharing builds a wider network of capable climate service providers, which, in turn, creates a ripple effect, as these trainees share new resources and skills with decision-making stakeholders in the region.