Deadline: November 3rd 2023 | Funds To NGOs For The Malawi Girls Can Code TOO Initiative’s Activities
| Title: | Funds To NGOs For The Malawi Girls Can Code TOO Initiative’s Activities |
| Organisation: | United Nations Malawi |
| Fund/Grant: | Funds for NGO’s |
| Deadline: | November 3rd 2023 |
| Eligible countries: | Malawi |
In accordance with the Malawi Implementation Plan – MIP2063 Enabler, UN Women in Malawi is providing grants to Non-Governmental Organisations with a presence in Malawi to support The Malawi Girls Can Code Project’s implementation. The project’s goal is to close the digital gender gap and economically empower girls and young women by increasing digital access and technology adoption by 2026.
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More gender-balanced access to technology will be made possible by the Malawi Girls Can Code Too project, which might lead to beneficial economic development for women, girls, and the nation as a whole. The project will specifically give girls a rare opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship, coding, and digital literacy, which will inspire them to pursue careers in information and communications technology. It will also increase the use of mobile phones and the internet to access information on topics like gender, entrepreneurship, soft skills, GBV, and other services related to professional growth.
Additionally, it will improve the tracking and reporting of cyberbullying and other violent incidents involving females. Girls who participate will have a forum to communicate with other female ICT specialists in Malawi and beyond Africa. The transformation of girls and young women through education, developing ICT, coding, and entrepreneurship knowledge, and so boosting their capacity to earn money, will be facilitated by the provision of ICT knowledge to them through MGCC2. The advancement of Ireland’s shared values and interests in Malawi depends heavily on this strategy for combating gender inequality that eventually enhances the economic, social, and political life of women.
Goal of the Programme
- By addressing numerous gender inequities and issues through the use of technology and innovation, the proposed initiative will help girls enjoy their rights. More gender-balanced access to and use of technology will be made possible by the initiative, and this has enormous potential to benefit women’s and girls’ economic development as well as the economy of the entire nation. In particular, the project will give girls a rare chance to learn digital literacy and coding, which will inspire them to pursue careers in information and communication technology. It will also encourage them to use technology more frequently for everyday needs, including smartphones, laptops, and the internet, in the context of gender equality and women’s empowerment. ICT also makes it possible for women and young girls to work part-time employment, which helps them balance taking care of their families.
Area of Work
- In order to implement programmes throughout the Outcome in the target districts of Dedza, Zomba, Balaka, Mzimba, Blantyre, Dowa, and Lilongwe, UN Women Malawi aims to enlist the assistance of local NGOs, but starting with a few districts in the first year. In addition to having programmatic experience in education, gender, community development, and women’s economic empowerment and livelihoods, the successful partners should already be present in the target districts. The particular results are:
Outcome
- By 2026, more young women and girls in Malawi, both urban and rural, will have gender-balanced access to and adoption of digital technology.
- Percentage of female students enrolling in ICT (innovation and technology).
- Percentage of the population using digital technology (by kind, by sex).
- Output 1: Girls learn digital literacy and coding, which inspires them to pursue careers in information and communications technology.
- Create 20 e-learning hubs for rural girls per year that are housed in community day secondary schools.
- Every year, hold four three-month ICT literacy training programmes in e-learning hubs.
- Conduct one national bootcamp for young women in urban areas and four regional bootcamps for females each year, each with fifty participants.
- Create a training manual that covers leadership, coding, and ICT. It can be adapted from the AGCCI to work in Malawi.
- Young graduates who will serve as the program’s primary trainers should participate in a TOT.
- Increased access to information on ICT and other services (such as GBV, SRHR, employment), as well as for professional development, is output number two.
- Purchase trustworthy off-grid solar power systems to supply 12 e-learning hubs.
- In order to create jobs locally, conduct TOTs for young people who will be able to run the eLearning centres and maintain the equipment.
- Make girls, the general public, and those in charge of the eLearning hubs aware of the need of managing and maintaining these facilities for the sake of the ecosystem in which they reside.
- Output 3: Girls who took part in the Coding Camps now have chances in the ICT and coding sectors working for the private sector, tech clubs, tech firms, and CSOs.
- Arrange for stakeholder and private sector ICT engagement meetings.
- Create networks and easily navigable online platforms to let women and girls keep in touch, grow together, and support one another internationally while fostering regional integration.
- To assist with the development of code and applications, train and create a pool of young mentors and specialists in ICT and coding.
- Make the public, media, and other interested parties aware of the MGCC2 in order to encourage national ownership and advocacy.
Operations
- First output: Raising community awareness of the project
- Educating the public on the establishment of e-learning hubs
- Encouraging men and boys to assist the project’s recipients.
- Determining who should receive ICT literacy training
- Girl participants in bootcamps are selected and mobilised.
- Keeping track of the females who took part in the bootcamps in order to evaluate and assist them with resource utilisation.
- Assistance in registering beneficiaries (updating beneficiary information in a database).
- Second output: Bring the media home campaigns aimed at enticing more women to pursue careers in ICT and other STEM fields.
- provision of mentoring sessions and other post-training support.
- Give life skills training workshops and soft skill training.
- Encourage community ownership and safety of the project’s localised equipment.
- Organising community open days or allowing ladies to demonstrate new skills
- Putting together radio shows on community radio stations to promote WEE-EVAW-GBG-DRR programmatic concerns and constructive social change.
- Find local influencers (change agents) and collaborate with them to promote gender parity and women’s involvement in ICT.
- Creating connections with the private sector, such as setting up district-level interface meetings between e-learning hubs and the private sector, is output number three.
Time Frame
- 11 months, from September 2023 to July 2024.
Location for Funds To NGOs For The Malawi Girls Can Code TOO Initiative’s Activities
- Dowa, Dedza, Zomba, Balaka, Mzimba, Lilongwe, and Blantyre.
Qualifications and Capabilities
- The following experience is what the CSO/NGO ought to have.
- At least five years of proven and demonstrated relevant expertise, including experience in organising or facilitating boot camps in various disciplines, supporting girls’ education, gender equality, and community mobilisation.
- Expertise in youth employment, life/soft skill training, and livelihoods and gender equality initiatives.
- Those who have experience with ICT programming for elementary or secondary education will be at a distinct advantage.
- Demonstrated (prior) experience working with community people and colleges on projects of a comparable nature.
- It is highly preferable if one has recent experience working in the designated districts’ operational areas.
- Knowledge of UN issues, particularly those pertaining to development; Adaptability and promptness in reacting to modifications made to the proposal during the evaluation and feedback phase.
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