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RobóTICas & Niñas I.A. — Bolivia's National AGETIC–UNICEF Policy for Girls' Digital and AI Skills

Bolivia · La Paz · See the Bolivia profile · See the La Paz profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 17% 67/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Bolivia's government tech agency AGETIC and UNICEF launched a national policy and free 'RobóTICas'/'Niñas I.A.' courses to close the country's documented gender gap in STEM and AI, reaching girls aged 7–18 across all nine departments.

265
Girls graduating from the first 'Chicas AppVentureras' app-development bootcamp
850
New scholarships announced for the second robotics/AI cohort
15 hours
Course block length

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
AGETIC (Agencia de Gobierno Electrónico y Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación) & UNICEF Bolivia
Period
2024–2025 (ongoing)
Keywords
government, digital skills, gender equality, AI literacy, education technology

Context

On 10 October 2025 — International Day of the Girl and Bolivian Women's Day — Bolivia's government tech agency AGETIC and UNICEF Bolivia launched the 'Institutional Policy for Digital and Socioemotional Skills,' described as the first policy of its kind in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Objectives

Close Bolivia's documented gender gap in STEM and AI skills, structured around three pillars: Acceso (getting more girls into STEM), Estadía (supporting their continued participation), and Egreso y empleabilidad (helping them transition into the labour market).

Activities

The policy formalises a free training track, publicly referred to as 'Niñas I.A.' and delivered through the wider RobóTICas programme, offering virtual robotics, coding and AI courses in 15-hour blocks to girls and adolescents aged 7 to 18 across all nine Bolivian departments.

Results

UNICEF press releases record 265 girls graduating from the first 'Chicas AppVentureras' app-development bootcamp, and 850 new scholarships announced for a second robotics/AI cohort.

Conclusions

The policy responds directly to evidence from the 2025 UNICEF–AGETIC study 'Brechas digitales de género en la educación,' which documented that Bolivian girls face greater obstacles than boys in developing technological skills. Published materials describe participation, graduation and scholarship counts, not independently measured learning gains or employment outcomes — a next step for evaluating whether the policy is closing the skills gap it targets, not just the access gap.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years)
Staffing & skills
AGETIC facilitators delivering virtual training directly to girls (no separate teacher-training strand documented)

Conditions for success

  • Formal government-agency policy adoption (AGETIC) rather than a one-off project
  • Free access removing cost barriers
  • National reach across all nine departments via virtual delivery
  • UNICEF partnership for programme design and funding

Commonly funded by

National / regional programmes CERV — Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values ESF+ — European Social Fund Plus

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