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UK Funded DigiGirls Graduates Over 4000 Women

by Techeconomy
September 1, 2022
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DigiGirls, an initiative of CyberSafe Foundation, funded through the UK Government’s Digital Access Programme, recently graduated over 4000 women and girls with in-demand basic to intermediary employable digital skills.

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Officials from UK High Commission, FCDO and Cybersafe Foundation in a group photograph

The programme also indirectly benefited over 10,000 additional women through the train-the-trainer programme.

These employable digital skills would drive positive livelihood outcomes for beneficiaries, improve their employment prospects and prepare them for digital entrepreneurship in today’s digital economy.

The DigiGirls program aims to lower the digital gender imbalance against women in Nigeria by empowering more women and girls with employable digital skills through intensive training, mentorship, internship/job placements, and entrepreneurship opportunities.

https://techeconomy.ng/2021/12/cybersafe-foundation-uk-govt-flag-off-digigirls-project-across-nigeria/

The learning paths for the program include Digital marketing, UI/UX, graphics design, E-commerce, and Data analysis.

Speaking at the virtual graduation event for the DigiGirls 2.0 beneficiaries held on Tuesday 30th August 2022, Alessandra Lustrati, Head of Digital Development and Global Lead of the Digital Access Programme in the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), congratulated the trainees on their achievements.

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Officials from UK High Commission, FCDO and Cybersafe Foundation paid a visit to the trainees

According to her, “building digital capacity at a local level, and testing digital skills development models that work well with specific target groups – like in the DigiGirls approach – is central to FCDO’s overall effort to support the inclusive, responsible and sustainable digital transformation of partner countries like Nigeria.”

Alessandra further highlighted the huge potential of Nigeria’s digital economy, recalling that the ICT sector was the fastest growing sector of Nigeria’s economy in 2020 and 2021, and is estimated to contribute 16.2% of Nigeria’s GDP at Q1 of 2022. 

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Inspection of the training programme

She said: “The digital economy can thrive much more and generate opportunities and skilled job only if we make an effort to close the digital gender gap, which in Nigeria is currently estimated at about 25%. The DigiGirls project with our partner CyberSafe Foundation, as part of the wider UK Digital Access Programme is a great example of how we can help close that gender gap and drive digital inclusion.”

Confidence Staveley, the Founder, and Executive Director of Cybersafe Foundation, specially thanked the UK government for their continuous support in making the program a success and improving the lives of the beneficiaries.

She said, “Thanks to the UK government through the FCDO, the DigiGirls program from inception has now directly empowered over 6000 women with Digital skills from both cohorts held.

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DigiGirls trainees

She went on to encourage the latest graduands to make use of their newfound skills and learnings, “You are the value, don’t stop adding value”, she added.

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