MUVA Tech was designed to empower women and girls, especially the more vulnerable, through ICTs, both by improving their skills in this field and by increasing their employability thanks to those. In order to increase the number of female consumers and producers of ICT in Mozambique MUVA Tech has developed a bespoke approach, including broad awareness raising activities and tailored training delivered in slum areas. We have developed a bespoke training for vulnerable women and girls, age 18 till 24, with an innovative approach that uses technology as a tool for human empowerment, so that technology is not only an end in itself but also a mean to achieve new economic opportunities. The objective of MUVA Tech is that technologies are an essential part of modern daily life, which is increasingly modeled on digital and its interactions and, therefore, must be transverse to learning. We have learning through a market survey that the ICT labour market in Mozambique expects from its employees strong soft skills and employability skills rather than only ICT knowledge. MUVA Tech uses a participatory methodology that has proven very efficient. The project includes four modules at this moment for different and levels of ICT competency.

http://muvamoz.co.mz

• Mozambique

• Youth
• Women
• The unemployed

We are now in the process to scale-up the project to Beira - the third largest city in Beira. Through our dissemination and influence work, other donors inside and outside Mozambique are interested in taking on the approach within their activities and projects.

By promoting female economic empowerment in Mozambique through new technologies use.