Yoma is a digital marketplace for youth to transform their futures by engaging in social impact tasks and learning & earning opportunities provided by a range of partners e.g. private enterprises, social impact orgs and future employers.
In Uganda, UN Women has enabled over 1,400 women to cultivate 250,000+ tilapia fingerlings, offering them vital training and resources to flourish in the aquaculture sector.
Providing digital/soft skills training to 13,500+ young refugees and disadvantaged youth in Colombia, Iraq, Kenya, Lebanon, Palestine, Turkey, and Zimbabwe.
A platform providing tools for young people to improve their labor situation and access job offers.
The programme aims to empower and equip 2,000 African women and girls between 17-25 with digital literacy skills over the course of four years, putting them on track for careers in the ICT sector.
UNOCT’s developing user-led platform on Connect & Learn for gender and intersectionality.
WFP’s digital marketplace bridges smallholder farmers with aggregation centers and buyers, giving them an increased chance to earn better prices.
The United Nations-wide Strategy on Gender Parity sets targets and monitors: leadership and accountability; senior management; recruitment and retention; creating an enabling environment; and Mission settings
Connect.post aims to connect every post office to the internet by 2030, leveraging the vast postal network to bridge the digital divide, fostering inclusive development in the digital economy.
FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative supports the implementation of nationally led, ambitious programmes to accelerate agrifood systems transformations by eradicating poverty, ending hunger and malnutrition, and reducing inequalities.
An IFAD study revealing behavioral barriers sustaining gender gaps. It provides a fresh perspective and roadmap for women’s economic empowerment, participatory decision-making, and work redistribution.
Launching a Massive Open Online Course on Media and Information Literacy for government officials and policy-makers.
In Rwanda, FAO supports youth and women to be the next generation of digitally literate agri-preneurs. Building digital skills and innovation capabilities is part of a broader effort to build enabling environments in agribusiness.
Providing low interest loans for solar-based technologies to build resilience and livelihoods of women and smallholder farmers in India.
UNCDF launched a project to increase digital literacy among Nepalese micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), particularly women-led businesses, improving access to e-commerce platforms.
IFAD’s ICT4D programme employed digital technologies in >200 solutions that enhances productivity, market participation, and climate resilience for small producers, and includes a targeted training course.
Market-led innovation and digital tech are used for climate risk management and resilience building. Tailored to rural women in Haiti, Liberia, Malawi, Mali and Senegal, pilots include mobile financial literacy, early warning, crop insurance.
The GUINEA-ON initiative is an incubator supporting the creation of tech-based youth enterprises in Equatorial Guinea.
UNDP Maldives utilized behavioral insights to counteract social and cultural barriers inhibiting girls from pursuing STEM careers. Iterative strategies were developed and tested to stimulate confidence, awareness, and readiness.
IFAD financed the NGO Precision Development (PxD) to provide ICT4D agricultural extension and advisory services to small-scale farmers. The project reached over 1.7 million farmers during the COVID 19 Pandemic.
Cash-for-work program providing income and entrepreneurship skills to women in Indonesia.
Oky mobile app (open source, free, inclusive) provides girls with information about their periods in fun, creative and positive ways. Oky is girl-centered and educates girls about MHH; it has reached 250,000 girls already.
To address the midwife crisis of care, UNFPA has developed trainings for midwives on management of labour and complications using virtual reality clinical environments and simulations.
A network for exchange and inspiration on change initiatives and fostering collaboration and innovation across the UN.
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