projects

Digital Gender Inclusion and Innovation Bootcamps

Ongoing
Bootcamp project
Programme
UNHCR Innovation Incubator
Fund
Digital Innovation Fund | Incubator
Start Date
Total Project Cost
USD 40,000.000
Country
Afghanistan , Bulgaria , Burkina Faso , Cameroon , Chad , Colombia , Congo, Democratic Republic of the , Dominican Republic (the) , Ecuador , Egypt , Ghana , Greece , India , Indonesia , Jordan , Kenya , Lebanon , Malawi , Malaysia , Mali , Mauritania , Mexico , Moldova, Republic of , Nigeria , Pakistan , Peru , South Sudan , Sudan (the) , Tanzania, United Republic of , Uganda , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the) , Yemen

Challenge

For more than 60 million forcibly displaced women and girls, the promise of the digital age remains largely out of reach due to a persistent gender digital divide. This exclusion cuts them off from vital information, education, livelihoods, safety resources, and meaningful connection with their communities and families.

Solution

UNHCR's Digital Gender Inclusion and Innovation Bootcamps bridge the gender digital divide and promote digital gender equality by equipping grassroots, women-led, and refugee-led organizations with the digital skills, tools, and leadership needed to drive inclusive transformation from within their communities. By empowering these frontline actors to deliver gender-responsive services and champion digital inclusion and protection, the Bootcamps enable forcibly displaced women and girls to access vital information, strengthen their protection, and build pathways to dignity, resilience, and self-reliance.

Impact

Refugee-led, women-led, and grassroots organizations will be digitally empowered to become innovators in their communities, reaching thousands more forcibly displaced and stateless women and girls with inclusive digital solutions that strengthen protection, skills, and leadership. 

Project impact

93
women-led, refugee-led organizations with enhanced digital capacity.
620
people reached with full age, gender, and diversity disaggregation.
8
e-learning modules on digital gender equality co-created with refugee women.

Direct impact

  • The Bootcamps have so far trained 93 grassroots organizations in 44 countries.
  • 1,620 individuals – including refugees, internally displaced persons, and host community members – directly benefited through pilot projects focused on advancing the digital inclusion of forcibly displaced and stateless women and girls.
  • 8 e-learning modules on digital gender equality were co-created with refugees.
  • See more impact to date in our 2025 impact report.