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Naveenta — Street Child and Karkhana Samuha's AI-Inclusive STEM Pathway for Marginalised Girls in Nepal's Madhesh Province

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A pilot bringing coding, web development, design and generative-AI literacy — plus dedicated AI-safety workshops — to 500 marginalised girls across 40 public schools in Nepal's Madhesh Province, aiming to seed a province-wide STEM policy for girls.

500
Girls reached
40
Public schools involved
6-12
Grade range covered
Naveenta — Street Child and Karkhana Samuha's AI-Inclusive STEM Pathway for Marginalised Girls in Nepal's Madhesh Province

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
Street Child; Karkhana Samuha (funded by Liberty Global)
Period
March 2025–ongoing
Keywords
education, girls' STEM, digital skills, AI literacy, NGO

Context

Madhesh Province is among Nepal's most economically disadvantaged and gender-unequal regions, with limited access to digital and STEM education for girls in public schools.

Objectives

Build a coding, web-development, design and generative-AI literacy pathway for marginalised girls, with a long-term goal of feeding the programme's model into Madhesh Province's local government policy on women and girls in STEM.

Activities

Naveenta is delivered by the international NGO Street Child in partnership with the Nepali digital-education organisation Karkhana Samuha, funded by Liberty Global. Announced in March 2025, it brings a STEM curriculum — Creative Coding, Web App Development, and Design & Visual Communication, with generative-AI tools embedded — to 500 marginalised girls across 40 public schools in grades 6-12, alongside dedicated AI-safety and ethics workshops and online AI-safety resources.

Results

As of the most recent public reporting, no independent outcome or skills-assessment data has been published, and no funding-amount figure has been disclosed.

Conclusions

The programme's documented value so far is reach and design — a dedicated AI-safety curriculum for an underserved group of girls — rather than measured learning gains or demonstrated policy adoption.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k) — Funded by Liberty Global and delivered via two NGO/social-enterprise partners (Street Child, Karkhana Samuha); no funding amount has been disclosed.
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years) — Announced March 2025 and ongoing as a pilot as of the most recent public reporting.
Staffing & skills
Street Child (international NGO, programme delivery), Karkhana Samuha (Nepali digital-education organisation, local delivery partner), Funded by Liberty Global (telecommunications group)

Conditions for success

  • A local delivery partner (Karkhana Samuha) with Nepal-specific digital-education expertise
  • Dedicated AI-safety and ethics workshops embedded alongside the technical curriculum
  • Explicit targeting of marginalised girls across 40 public schools rather than a single site

Common failure modes

  • No independent outcome or skills-assessment data published as of most recent reporting
  • No funding-amount figure disclosed, limiting cost transparency
  • The long-term policy-adoption goal (Madhesh Province STEM policy) is not yet demonstrated

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