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WODEF Program Area

Skilling Young Women & Girls

Digital skills, technology access, and STEM opportunity for young women and girls

Skilling Young Women & Girls
Program summary

Skilling Young Women & Girls

WODEF helps young women and girls thrive in a digital world through digital literacy, STEM exposure, access to technology, and innovation pathways linked to real opportunity.

Technology should expand opportunity, not deepen exclusion. WODEF supports young women and girls with the practical tools, skills, and exposure needed to move confidently through a more digital future.

Program overview

Digital skills, technology access, and STEM opportunity for young women and girls

This pillar responds to the widening digital divide that keeps many young women and girls from participating fully in education, entrepreneurship, and employment. WODEF promotes digital inclusion so young women and girls can learn, innovate, and lead with confidence.

What WODEF is addressing

Why this program matters

When young women and girls lack access to devices, digital literacy, STEM pathways, and safe online participation, they are pushed farther away from emerging education and income opportunities.

Delivery approach

How WODEF responds

We provide digital literacy, STEM mentorship, practical access support, and innovation-linked guidance so young women and girls can use technology as a pathway into learning, enterprise, and leadership.

01

Create learning pathways that build foundational digital and ICT skills for young women and girls.

02

Connect participants to mentors, apprenticeships, and industry-linked exposure in STEM and innovation spaces.

03

Support safe, practical use of technology for education, entrepreneurship, and leadership growth.

Focus areas

How this program works

We combine training, access, mentorship, and digital safety support so young women and girls can use technology as a practical engine for growth.

Digital literacy and ICT training programs

STEM mentorship and career exposure initiatives

Provision of digital tools and access support

Online safety, digital rights, and innovation incubation

Expected change

What stronger delivery makes possible

Expected outcomes

  • Improved digital confidence and technology use among young women and girls
  • Stronger access to STEM pathways, mentoring, and innovation opportunities
  • More women-led participation in digital learning and entrepreneurship

What progress can look like

  • Participants gain practical confidence using digital tools and platforms.
  • Young women and girls describe clearer pathways into STEM, innovation, or digital entrepreneurship.
  • Technology access is more meaningfully connected to real learning and livelihood use cases.