Gender transformative digital skills education framework

  • A Advocacy Campaign/Project

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

To celebrate International Women’s History month the GSMA has co-published the first of its kind gender transformative digital skills education framework which was presented at a high level event hosted on the fringes of the 68th Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

The framework titled “Her Digital Skills: Towards a Gender Transformative Approach” and a set of initial, promising practices is the collective work of EQUALS Her Digital Skills Initiative which includes several co-founders.

A decade of research in both low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) and high-income countries shows that regressive social and gender norms play a critical role in perpetuating the gender digital divide, in all its forms.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://www.gsma.com/solutions-and-impact/connectivity-for-good/external-affairs/gender/the-gsma-co-publishes-first-of-its-kind-gender-transformative-digital-skills-education-framework/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

the GSMA, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Ernst and Young (EY), and Women’s WorldWide Web (W4)

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other skills

  • Rights/empowerment education

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans

Skills

  • STEM

Cross-cutting areas

  • Digital literacy
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, Girls in school, Policymakers, School administrators, Youth

Age

15 - 24

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational

Other populations reached

  • Teachers - female

Participants include

  • Orphans and vulnerable children
  • People with disabilities

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula

Educational Technology

  • Digital learning materials/programs
  • Digital reading materials (non-textbook)
  • Digital skills/literacy (including coding)

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Peer mentors

Policy/legal environment

  • Public-private partnerships

Teaching

  • Hiring more female teachers

Women's empowerment programs

  • Empowerment training
  • Self-help groups (financial, including savings and credit groups)

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Curricula, teaching and learning materials are free of gender-bias and stereotypes

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms