Good practice Imported

E-skills for women prisoners

· Belgrade, Serbia · Local

The overall aim of the practice is building employability skills of women offenders through IT and Job Search skills training to prepare them for better reintegration into the labour market and society upon release from prison. Upon successful completion of 4 IT courses and pass

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: IAN International Aid Network — website
Type: Service
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Unemployed and those facing social problems
People reached: 100
People targeted: 100
Period: 2011-01-01
Keywords: e-skills, serbia, prison, ict, women

Context

IAN's e-skills programme for women prisoners in Serbia, funded by the International Women's Club Belgrade and the EU, delivers 4 IT courses leading to an IAN certificate (and, for top performers, the internationally recognised ECDL certificate) to build employability skills ahead of release.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

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Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14

Quality score: 72/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 50% in this catalogue (610 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by MEDICI consortium

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Innovation level3/5

How novel the approach is, from the source innovation rating (graded 0–5).

Sustainability (ongoing)1/1

Whether the initiative is still ongoing rather than ended.

Evaluation evidence0/1

Whether a substantive evaluation of the initiative exists.

Demonstrated reach1/1

Whether the initiative reached a measurable number of people.

Documented learning1/1

Whether transferable lessons learned are documented.

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Evidoria. E-skills for women prisoners. Persistent ID: 7e6dc9bf-5203-4fdf-871a-cedbcd73fb71.

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