Closing the STEM gender gap
Between 2018 and 2021, SERVIR HKH trained 410 women in “Empowering women in GIT” to bridge the technology and gender gap in the region. Some of the key outcomes of these trainings are summarized in this report.
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Between 2018 and 2021, SERVIR HKH trained 410 women in “Empowering women in GIT” to bridge the technology and gender gap in the region. Some of the key outcomes of these trainings are summarized in this report.
Since 2018, SERVIR has conducted 12 training programs for young and early-career women in geospatial information technology (GIT), reaching 1,490 women across the region. The training focuses on using technologies to collect, store, analyze, and visualize spatial or geographic data about observing the Earth’s surface and human activity. Participants learn about key concepts and how to use applications that depend on EO data and GIT.
|Jaber Hassan and Poonam Tripathi, SERVIR HKH
The Monitoring of Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon service produces near real-time information on deforestation and mining activity in the southern Peruvian Amazon.
SERVIR Amazonia, an initiative of USAID and NASA, addresses environmental and development challenges across the Amazon Basin using state-of-the-art geospatial technologies. The
The Ecosystem Services Modeling in the Amazon's Forest-Agricultural Interface service provides accurate maps for stakeholders and decision-makers to understand how agricultural production can lead to deforestation, particularly due to palm oil and cacao production.
The Forecasting Seasonal to Sub-seasonal Fire and Agricultural Risk from Drought service provides information for evaluating drought conditions at temporal and spatial resolution to predict fire vulnerability in the Amazon basin.
The Improving Resilience and Reducing Risk of Extreme Hydrological Events service provides stakeholders in the Amazon Basin region with improved historical water information and a flood forecasting ability to support greater resiliency to flood disasters.
Quantifying the Effects of Forest Changes on Provisioning and Regulating Ecosystem Services is a service that allows stakeholders to better understand the tradeoffs between development activities and ecosystem services.
Working in developing countries around the world, SERVIR seeks to incorporate regional knowledge and perspectives to best meet end user needs in addressing issues such as flood forecasting, forest fire management, landslide hazard, agricultural monitoring, and biomass estimation.
TerraOnTrack is a web application developed as part of this service to help traditional communities and indigenous people to quickly identify potential threats to their territories and monitor illegal activities on the ground.