• The new round for the Empowering the Sahel Region through Digital Reskilling and Upskilling to Enhance Productive Sources of Livelihood and Employment is open for applications.
  • The programme will help participants turn their entrepreneurial ideas into digital products that empower others and address critical local issues arising from the COVID-19 crisis.
  • The six-week programme will be held in French. It will start on 3 January 2022.
  • Topics will include programming, coding, application development, digital literacy, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and gender leadership.
  • To apply, you must be a woman or youth in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal, with a deep interest in digital technologies, good oral and written French skills, and the passion to make a positive impact on society.
  • Deadline to apply: 29 December 2021.

15 December 2021, Hiroshima, Japan – The new round for the Strategic Response to COVID-19 Crisis: Empowering the Sahel Region through Digital Reskilling and Upskilling to Enhance Productive Sources of Livelihood and Employment is now open for applications. The programme will help participants transform their entrepreneurial ideas into digital products that empower others and effectively address critical issues in their communities. Motivated women and youth in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal are invited to apply by 29 December 2021.

Over six weeks, starting 3 January 2022, the French-language online training programme will equip learners with such skills as programming, coding, and application development, and foster understanding of digital literacy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. The hard-skills training will be combined with gender leadership training.

Wilfried Poucheu from Cameroon
Wilfried Poucheu from Cameroon

Communities in the Sahel region are confronting a severe digital divide and the COVID-19 crisis has created many new challenges in the work environment. In that context, the UNITAR programme is “a giant leap for our communities,” says Wilfried Poucheu from Cameroon, one of the 500 participants who completed the 2021 first round. Wilfried continues:

People who have never done programming succeed in producing good codes thanks to this training and the elders get to deepen their knowledge.

Djénéba Coulibaly from Mali
Djénéba Coulibaly from Mali

Another participant, Djénéba Coulibaly from Mali, reflects,

the courses on the Sustainable Development Goals and programming were well explained and very easy to understand, even for a computer newbie. This training will allow me to educate others in my community.

Supported by the Government of Japan, the programme is open to women and youth in the Sahel region who have:

  • a deep interest in digital technologies
  • good oral and written French skills
  • the passion to make a positive impact on society.

Please apply by 29 December 2021 at:

https://apply.unitar.org/prog/programme_de_competences_numeriques_dans_le_sahel/

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