UN Women National Consultant Jobs in Addis Ababa - Ethiopia

UN Women National Consultant Jobs in Addis Ababa - Ethiopia

AGCCI is a programme that is being implemented by UN Women in collaboration with the African Union Commission and International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and is designed to expose and equip young girls with digital literacy, CODING and personal development skills.

The four-year programme with a total programme budget of US$7.5Million will train young girls to become programmers, creators and designers, placing them on track to take up educations and careers in ICT and CODING through the following overall components:

CODING Camps in countries across Africa targeting young girls aged between 17 – 20 years from African countries. The first CODING Camp took place in Addis Ababa in August 2018 with up to 90 young girls aged 17-20 years from all AU Member States followed by the second regional coding camp that hosted 43 girls from the SADC region.

Mainstream ICT, CODING and Gender in to the national curricula- AGCCI will work closely with Ministries of Education and Ministries of ICT in countries across Africa to mainstream ICT, gender and CODING into the national curricula. This part of the Initiative will allow millions of both urban and rural girls to learn IT skills from the early stages of their primary, middle and high school education. This approach will allow interest in ICT to be engrained in the young girls and place them on the path to reap benefits of the global digital boom.

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