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Malawi Girls Can Code Too — AI, Robotics and Digital Literacy Bootcamps for Rural Young Women

Malawi · Mzuzu · See the Malawi profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 58% 47/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

The Malawi Girls Can Code Too (MGCC2) project ran three 10-day bootcamps in Dowa, Mzuzu and at the Malawi University of Science & Technology in 2024, training 122 girls (15-24) in AI-platform creation, robotics, coding and digital literacy, funded by Ireland's Embassy.

122
Total participants (Apr-Jul 2024)
7 %
Men with basic computer skills (national)
2 %
Women with basic computer skills (national)
Malawi Girls Can Code Too — AI, Robotics and Digital Literacy Bootcamps for Rural Young Women

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
UN Women Malawi with Malawi's Ministry of Education and Ministry of Gender, funded by the Embassy of Ireland
Period
2024
Keywords
education, ICT skills, gender equality, youth employability

Context

Malawi Girls Can Code Too (MGCC2), run by UN Women Malawi with the Ministries of Education and Gender, funded by the Embassy of Ireland, ran three residential bootcamps in Dowa, Mzuzu and the southern region between April and July 2024, training girls in coding, robotics, AI-platform creation, IoT and digital literacy.

Results

122 girls and young women took part (27 Dowa, 45 Mzuzu, 50 southern region); participants left with working mobile apps and digital prototypes, per facilitator and UN Women reporting.

Conclusions

UN Women cites Malawi's basic-computer-skills gender gap (7% of men vs 2% of women) as the programme's rationale; continuation depends on renewed Irish Embassy donor funding beyond the 2026 target horizon.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year)
Staffing & skills
UN Women Malawi programme staff, facilitators (e.g. Precious Msonda)

Conditions for success

  • donor funding (Embassy of Ireland)
  • ministry co-delivery (Education, Gender)

Common failure modes

  • continuation depends on renewed donor funding beyond the 2026 horizon

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