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Digital Inclusion for Women's Economic Empowerment (D4WEE) – Women's Digital Centers

Liberia · Totota · See the Liberia profile

UN Women and the Orange Foundation built Women's Digital Centers at Peace Huts in rural Bong County, Liberia; 45 women graduated a six-month digital/mobile-money course, adding to over 70 women hired as Orange agents and 700 using mobile money after 2022 trainings.

45
Women graduating from six-month digital literacy course (April 2023)
70+
Women employed as Orange mobile-money agents (after 2022 trainings)
700+
Women using/managing mobile money accounts (after 2022 trainings)
Digital Inclusion for Women's Economic Empowerment (D4WEE) – Women's Digital Centers

Details

Promoter
UN Women, Orange Foundation and National Peace Hut Women of Liberia
Period
2022-2023
Keywords
digital literacy, women's economic empowerment, mobile money, rural development

Context

Under the Digital Inclusion for Women's Economic Empowerment (D4WEE) initiative, UN Women partnered with the Orange Foundation and the National Peace Hut Women of Liberia to establish Women's Digital Centers at the Totota and Gboinyee Tarr Town Peace Huts in Bong County, Liberia — traditional women-led structures historically used for community peacebuilding.

Objectives

The programme aims to build digital and financial literacy skills among rural women inside an existing, trusted community institution, and to convert those skills into income through mobile-money agent work and small-scale 'technopreneurship'.

Results

At the Totota center, 45 young women graduated from a six-month digital literacy course in April 2023, learning basic computer operation and use of the Orange Money mobile-money platform, many having never operated a computer before. This built on 2022 trainings, after which more than 70 women gained employment with Orange as mobile-money agents and over 700 women were using and managing mobile-money accounts.

Conclusions

No independent econometric evaluation of income impact has been published; the reported figures are self-reported by the implementing partners.

Implementation

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