About
The G20 #eSkills4Girls initiative aims at tackling the existing gender digital divide in particular in low income and developing countries. The goal is to globally increase the access of women and girls in the digital world and to boost relevant education and employment opportunities. This platform was initiated by the G20 members together with UNESCO, UN Women, ITU and OECD to collect and disseminate information and knowledge as well as policy recommendations, good practices and flagship projects on gender digital equality.
EQUALS - Global Partnership
The #eSkills4Girls initiative launched under Germany´s G20 presidency is just a first step to making the digital inclusion of women and girls a matter of course. It takes joint and long-term efforts by stakeholders from governments, private sector, civil society and academia. To this end, Germany has joined EQUALS, the Global Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age.
EQUALS works to reverse the increasing digital gender divide, and to close the gap by 2030. The members work together in four coalitions: access, leadership, skills and research. To date, approximately 60 organisations including governments, companies and NGOs have joined EQUALS.
Recommendations
There are interventions on different levels that can support girls and women in ICT. Read more about what politics, private sector, civil society, academica and intergovernmental organizations can do.
G20 leaders endorse #eSkills4Girls
G20 Hamburg Summit: The promotion of women’s empowerment in the digital age receives highest political support through the G20 Leaders’ Declaration and particularly the annex on the #eSkills4Girls initiative.
World Map on Digital Skills training projects for women and girls
The map shows you where relevant supporting projects of different donors are located around the world. You can make a targeted search via the criteria or you zoom into your region of interest and click on the dots to read in short about the projects.
G20 Flagship Projects
G20 Flagship Projects provide an overview of best practices and projects by G20 members which address the barriers to women’s access to and use of ICT by promoting education, employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for women and girls. Find out where and how women are currently supported.
Women who made it
Tatenda Ndambakuwa, Founder & CEO, Zimbabwe
Living through and surviving food shortages of historic proportions in 2008 Zimbabwe, Tatenda is passionate about agriculture and ending hunger. Therefore, she developed Shiri, an agricultural practice that uses software and mobile applications as agricultural service solutions for farmers while creating a vibrant ecosystem of agricultural alliances.
BMZ supports Africa Code Week for the third time
Learning how to code can influence career choices for girls. Coding also gives girls a peek into the magic of the digital world. As women and girls are 1.6 times more likely to report lack of skills as a barrier, coding is an important step for their digital inclusion. This is why we joined forces with the Africa Code Week. BMZ supported 21 coding workshops in 16 African countries that are specifically designed for girls.
#eSkills4Girls at re:publica Accra
In cooperation with re:publica GmbH and Impact Hub Accra, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) was proud to host the first edition of re:publica Accra on December 14-15th 2018 also addressing the gender digital divide and female role models.
#eSkills4Girls activities of Germany
To translate the political commitments into practice, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) implements numerous activities under the framework of the initiative #eSkills4Girls.
Watch the #eSkills4Girls video
Watch our 5 min feature and find out about the power of #eSkills4Girls
