0 
0 It’s worth repeating over and over again that women are affected by disasters disproportionately. Quantifying and visualizing gender inequality is still difficult due to various reasons.
This episode will discuss the role of geospatial technologies in tracking the progress of gender equality and attempt to identify some of the gaps that exist in making this progress, and explain some of the dynamics involved in innovative and exciting initiatives being implemented in the Lower Mekong region.
The Gender Equality Monitoring (GEM) platform offers open access to officially published data and periodically updated sex-disaggregated data repository. It visualizes gender gaps at the subnational level in various sectors such as education, health, employment, access to information, intra-household decision-making, political participation, as well as the gender inequality index (GII). These are starting points to further explore the causes and more complex dynamics of gender inequality.
Moderator:
Vidya Rana, Senior Communications Manager, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)
Speakers:
- Amanda Markert, Regional Science Coordination Lead for SERVIR-Mekong, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Dr. Peeranan Towashiraporn, Director, Geospatial Information Department, ADPC and Chief-of-Party, SERVIR-Mekong
- Elizabeth Thipphawong, Civil Society Specialist, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mekong for the Future and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Greater Mekong
- Bhawana Upadhyay, Senior Specialist, Gender and Inclusion, ADPC.
Chapters:
00:00-01:16 Welcome by the Moderator
01:17-01:52 Introduction of Panelists
01:53-07:13 Amanda Markert, NASA
07:14-13:19 Peeranan Towashiraporn, ADPC and SERVIR-Mekong
13:20-18:07 Elizabeth Thipphawong, WWF Greater Mekong
18:08-23:34 Bhawana Upadhyay, ADPC.
23:35-27:09 Looking Forward to IWD 2023
27:10-28:01 Acknowledgements
Read a transcript of Amanda Markert’s interview here.
