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The SERVIR Service Planning Toolkit: Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting to use geospatial technology for improved environmental decision-making

by SERVIR Team | Jan 20, 2022 | Capacity Development, English, MEL, Portuguese, Spanish

Authors: Simone Staiger, Katherine Casey and Sophie Alvarez SERVIR develops geospatial services with partners in over 46 countries through five regional Hubs. With hundreds of actors and thousands of end users, the magnitude of SERVIR’s scope provides ample...

Arizona State University and SERVIR-Amazonia, allies of women professionals in Geospatial Information Systems – GIS

by SERVIR Team | Jan 19, 2022 | Capacity Development, English, Gender, Indigeneous People, Portuguese

Promoting the development of professional women in Geographic Information Systems by strengthening technical and social skills in environmental sciences and geospatial technologies constitutes above all an interactive process that seeks to share experiences and...

Call for expression of interest: Consultancy on gender, social inclusion and mangroves in Guyana

by SERVIR Team | Jan 11, 2022 | APN, English, Gender, Guyana, Indigeneous People, Portuguese, Spanish

SERVIR-Amazonia is searching for a Consultant Social/Gender Researcher to perform a Gender and Social Inclusion study in the Guyana Mangroves that would provide a general overview of the state of the mangroves, the gender relations, the afro Guyanese and indigenous...

Estrechando lazos de colaboración con socios de SERVIR-Amazonia en Ecuador

by SERVIR Team | Dec 7, 2021 | Deforestation, Drought and Fire, Ecuador, English, Portuguese, Services, Spanish

Autor: José Leandro Fernandes Un nuevo convenio firmado y el gusto de definir próximos pasos de colaboración de manera presencial con socios en Ecuador es el balance de la visita hecha a este país del 15 al 18 de noviembre de 2021, por una delegación compuesta por...

Safeguard ecosystem services in the Southwestern Amazon, the motivation that drives Stephanie Spera’s Applied Science Team

by SERVIR Team | Dec 6, 2021 | Brazil, Capacity Development, Ecosystem Management, English, Indigeneous People, Peru, Services

When Stephanie Spera talks about her work with the Applied Science Team that she is leading on “Quantifying the Effects of Forest Changes on Provisioning and Regulating Ecosystem Services” in the Southwestern Amazon, she mentions two motivations. The first,...

Peruvian Government organizations receive training in Google Earth Engine and the classification of land cover and use

by SERVIR Team | Dec 2, 2021 | Capacity Development, Ecosystem Management, English, Peru, Portuguese, Spanish

Peruvian government institutions recently requested the SERVIR Amazonia program to improve its capabilities in processing satellite images for monitoring changes in land cover. In this sense, the Program offered training on the Google Earth Engine platform (GEE), an...