Can't Wait to Learn: Digital Game-Based Learning for Out-of-School Children in Sudan
Sudan
Since 2014, War Child Holland, UNICEF and Ahfad University have run tablet-based learning games for out-of-school children in three Sudanese …
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Safe Space to Learn: Digital Literacy for Displaced Women
Yemen · Khanfar (Abyan Governorate) · See the Yemen profile
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
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.
Implementation
Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.
Data sources
Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.
- C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-07-15
- International Rescue Committee (IRC), funded by Fujitsu — accessed 2026-07-15
- IRC – Safe Space to Learn report — accessed 2026-07-15
- Forced Migration Review – digital gender gap in Yemen — accessed 2026-07-15
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