United Nations
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Organized by UN-GGIM: Americas. This is a side event of the Tenth Session of UN-GGIM: Americas (17 to 20 October 17 2023).
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Objective of the conversation
This conversation aims to initiate a first step to discuss the reality in the Americas about female empowerment in the geospatial field, with a view to building a regional community that inspires and empowers women in the geospatial sector, and transforms in leaders and agents of change.
Specific objectives
- Bring together women and men from UN-GGIM Member States: Americas to raise awareness about female leadership in the geospatial field;
- Identify priority issues and related solutions;
- Determine what role UN-GGIM: Americas should take on to enhance female leadership;
- Next steps
Programme of work:
Female leadership in the geospatial field
Sofía Nilo Crisóstomo, President of UN-GGIM: Americas
Welcome words
Presentations:
Breaking the statistical silence to achieve gender equality: Advances and challenges with information from ECLAC's Gender Equality Observatory (OIG)
Topic Gender Equity-UN frameworks and initiatives
Publicación del libro "Mujeres en la estadística y en la geografía"
Geography of inequalities: navigating through female leadership gaps in the geospatial field
Developing leaders in Geospatial Communities: Challenges and Opportunities
Round table (trigger questions)
Closing and next steps
Related Content:
Tenth Session of UN-GGIM: Americas
The tenth Session of the United Nations Regional Committee for Global Geospatial Information Management for the Americas (UN-GGIM: Americas), as well as the side events, took place from 17 to 20 October 2023 in person at Headquarters of ECLAC.
Expertas intercambian sobre la importancia de fortalecer el liderazgo de mujeres en el ámbito geoespacial
La División de Asuntos de Género participó en el Conversatorio sobre "Liderazgo femenino en el ámbito geoespacial", evento realizado en el marco de la décima Sesión del Comité Regional de Naciones Unidas sobre Gestión Global de Información Geoespacial para las Américas (UN-GGIM Américas), el 19 de octubre de 2023.
