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AUC is Organising the First GMES & Africa Women Workshop

The African Union Commission (AUC), through the implementation of the GMES & Africa Programme, is convening the first “GMES & Africa Women workshop” from 15 to 18 March 2022 in Cotonou, Benin. The workshop will gather African women representatives working in EO-related fields, Consortia Leads and PMU. 

Background and Rationale

This activity lies in the Aspiration 6 of Agenda 2063, which calls for “An Africa, whose development is people-driven, relying on the potential of African people, especially its women and youth, and caring for children”. One of the GMES & Africa phase 1 findings is that women evolving in EO-related fields are under-represented. Many stakeholders highlighted this during the different workshops and forums held during the Programme’s phase 1, and it was recommended that GMES & Africa phase 2 takes action to address this challenge.

To this end, the AUC, through the implementation of GMES & Africa phase 2, set a requirement related to the inclusion of 30% of women specialised in EO-related fields as part of the Awarded Consortia’s teams. In addition, the AUC planned to create a group called “Women in GMES & Africa” to bring together women to share knowledge and best practices for their full involvement not only in GMES & Africa programme implementation but in general in earth observation initiatives and projects. 

Objectives

The objectives of the workshop are: 

Expected results 

It is expected to yield the outcomes outlined below:

Methodology

The workshop will last four days. It will include an opening session with key messages from the AUC, and it will be characterised by setting working group sessions based on the different areas of interest to showcase the challenges or advances or achievements in terms of reaching gender balance goals in the field of EO (at least at the level of GMES & Africa Program). Finally, the various sessions will generate recommendations on lessons learnt.

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