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