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Safe Space to Learn: Digital Literacy for Displaced Women

Yemen · Khanfar (Abyan Governorate) · See the Yemen profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 54% 72/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

IRC's 'Safe Space to Learn' curriculum trained 50 displaced women in Yemen's Khanfar district over 20 weeks with loaned smartphones; participants reported a near four-fold rise in digital literacy, but power cuts and lack of personal devices limited lasting use.

50 women
Participants trained (20 weeks)
~4x multiplier
Increase in self-reported digital-literacy knowledge
Safe Space to Learn: Digital Literacy for Displaced Women

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
International Rescue Committee (IRC), funded by Fujitsu
Period
2020–2022
Keywords
digital literacy, gender-based violence prevention, humanitarian response, displacement

Context

IRC developed 'Safe Space to Learn' in 2020, a gender-sensitive, Creative Commons-licensed digital-literacy curriculum for displaced women, funded by Fujitsu and piloted with 50 adult women at an IRC Women and Girls' Safe Space in Khanfar district, Abyan governorate, Yemen, over twice-weekly two-hour sessions across 20 weeks using loaned smartphones.

Results

Participants reported close to a four-fold increase in digital-literacy knowledge and greater confidence in tasks like CV writing and accessing job platforms.

Conclusions

IRC and Forced Migration Review both flag real limitations: power cuts and unreliable connectivity disrupted sessions, women without personal devices risked losing skills after the programme ended, the curriculum's literacy assumption excluded non-literate participants, and at 50 participants the pilot's findings are illustrative rather than conclusive.

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