01.12.2025 - The Women’s Rally of Geospatial Technologies – School of Environment and Water for Women in Ecuador
This November, the SDGnexus Network is preparing the second edition of the The Women’s Rally of Geospatial Technologies - School of Environment and Water for Women in Ecuador.
This initiative was created to strengthen the leadership and active participation of rural and Indigenous women in water and environmental management. In its first edition, the School successfully already empowered 60 rural women across Ecuador, providing them with technical, digital, and organizational tools to engage in decision-making processes within their communities.
This 2025, the program aims to scale up this achievement, expanding its reach and continuing to promote women as key actors in sustainable water and environmental governance.
Photo: Bruna Salamea
The Women’s Rally was designed to introduce rural women to geospatial tools through accessible mobile and computer applications.
By doing so, the program seeks to reduce the digital gender divide, build collaborative networks among women and support ancestral knowledge with technological capacities to develop innovative solutions that improve water management, agriculture, and environmental practices in their territories.
Photo: Bruna Salamea
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help them promote goals and sponsore them in our partner regions The SDGnexus Network will help them to promote and sponsor them in our partner regions to help them archiebe their four core goals: Co-develop knowledge with women leaders from rural and Indigenous communities to address local environmental and water challenges using geospatial technologies, including KoboToolbox, Google My Maps, Arduino, UAVs (drones), additive manufacturing, and 3D printing. Promote agents of change by training female university students to become mentors within the program. Support the institutionalization of the School at the University of Cuenca, ensuring future editions and providing follow-up support for participants’ community projects. Build technical and digital skills to reduce the digital gender gap and increase women’s participation in leadership and technology-oriented initiatives. The University of Cuenca will host this second edition of the School, serving as the main local partner in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). |
Photo: Bruna Salamea
Photo: Bruna Salamea |
