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
Women play a pivotal role in agricultural production. Worldwide, women represent 43 percent of the agricultural labor force; in Kenya, that number is between 42 and 65 percent.
|Janet Nackoney, Land and Resource Governance Officer, USAID and Dorah Nesoba, Public Relations and Communication Officer, RCMRD
Susan Malaso Kotikot, an Earth System Science graduate student at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and a graduate research assistant at SERVIR, has claimed first prize for her submission to the inaugural College of Science Research Horizons Day poster contest.
Meet Faith Mitheu, Water and Hydroclimatic Disasters Lead for RCMRD/SERVIR-Eastern and Southern Africa.
USAID and NASA are supporting women scientists around the world to use science and technology to improve resilience and raise the visibility of women in science.