This workshop, by invitation only, is organized by the Regional Information for Society (RIfS) Core Project (RIfS) and the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) in Cape Town (South Africa) from 8 to 11 September 2025. It is planned as a pivotal moment in Africa for how to address the critical questions of robust, defensible, and actionable climate information to support Africa’s policy and decision makers. This workshop is the first step to new cross-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary, and cross regional collaborations.