by Carmen Calle | Sep 4, 2023 | Barbados, Brazil, Caribbean, Colombia, Ecuador, English, Events, Gender, Guyana, Mangroves Monitoring, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago
Empowering women in scientific and technological areas is one of the SERVIR-Amazonia Program’s cross-cutting themes. To this end, a new workshop was held last August on the “Empowerment Women in Mangrove Forest Monitoring and Leadership”, hosted by the Alliance...
by Carmen Calle | Jun 14, 2023 | Brazil, Capacity Development, Colombia, Ecuador, English, Events, Gender, Peru, Spanish, Uncategorized
Continuing their efforts to promote the inclusion of more women in science and to strengthen their network of female professionals, the Arizona State University (ASU) Knowledge Exchange for Resilience Program and SERVIR-Amazonia, held a “Train the Trainers:...
by Carmen Calle | May 16, 2023 | Brazil, English, Gender
Between April 11th and 13th, 2023, Júlia Niero and Heidi Buzato, from Imaflora, in partnership with Queren Luna from SIGMA/SEMAPI, conducted an online training event called “Empowering women through Geotechnology”, which was designed by women and offered...
by Carmen Calle | Apr 5, 2023 | English, Gender, Stakeholder engagement
On March 16, 2023, during the 67th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, which focused on the inclusion of women in innovation and technology, the gender advisor to the SERVIR-Amazonia Program, Marina Irigoyen, participated with a lecture on...
by Carmen Calle | Mar 6, 2023 | Brazil, English, Gender, Indigeneous People, Stakeholder engagement
By Heidi Buzato, Celma de Oliveira, Giulia Andrich and Natalia Molina. In the São Félix do Xingu municipality in the Brazilian Amazon, there is an association managed by women (AMPPF) that uses family labor to produce fruit pulp and cocoa from their agro-forests,...
by Carmen Calle | Feb 24, 2023 | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, English, Gender, Peru
According to recent UN data, women still represent only 28% of graduates globally in engineering and 40% in information technology and computing. This means a significant gender gap in STEM careers (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) exists, with only...
