Target 8.3: Promote policies that support decent jobs, entrepreneurship and small enterprise growth.
The Problem Few women and girls in Ghana were entering technology careers.
The Move They Made Regina Honu, a software developer, started the Tech Needs Girls mentoring programme in 2013. Through the Soronko Foundation, set up in 2012, she founded Soronko Academy in 2017, described as the first coding and human-centred design school for children and young adults in West Africa. It has since expanded to train boys, men and people with disabilities.
The Proof By 2021 the Academy was estimated to have trained more than 20,000 women and girls, in Ghana and Burkina Faso. In 2021 it helped 560 Ghanaian women with no previous technology experience to find work.
Your Move The skill was never the only barrier. Equipment, mentors and a route into work were part of the job. Put them in your plan alongside the training.
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