African Girls Can Code Initiative — UN Women's Coding, Robotics and AI Camp for Young Women in Bubanza Province, Burundi

The African Girls Can Code Initiative (AGCCI) was launched in 2018 by UN Women, the African Union Commission and the ITU to close Africa's gender gap in technology careers, where women make up a large share of STEM graduates but a much smaller share of tech-sector jobs.
Burundi's second AGCCI cohort ran a two-week residential camp from 11-23 December 2023 in Bubanza Province, jointly organised by Burundi's Ministry of Communication, Information Technologies and Media, UN Women Burundi and the African Union Commission, with funding from the Kingdom of Belgium. Teenage and young-adult girls were taught algorithmic thinking, web development and Scratch-based visual animation, culminating in project presentations at graduation.
102 young girls were certified in coding at the close of the camp. The model has since been repeated: a third Burundian phase ran in Gitega province in March 2026, and the wider pan-African AGCCI programme reports over 20,000 young women and girls trained across the continent since its 2019 launch.
Caveats: the participation and certification figures are self-reported by the implementing ministry and UN Women, without independent audit, and no employment or further-study outcomes specific to the Burundian cohort were found. Coverage is largely UN-affiliated and French-language, limiting independent verification.

Read the full analysis: https://burundi.un.org/fr/312722-nouvelles-perspectives-num%C3%A9riques-avec-le-camp-de-codage-pour-les-filles-burundaises