Digital skills mentorship to facilitate online livelihoods
Challenge
Encampment policies for refugees and asylum-seekers in Malawi limit access to socioeconomic opportunities and exacerbate poverty. These issues are compounded in the Dzaleka settlement by the shortage of skilled workers in the community.
Solution
UNHCR is providing 50 community members with digital skills mentorship and onboarding onto digital labour platforms, as well as connectivity and laptops to facilitate freelance work online.
Impact
Enhanced self-reliance and improved online livelihood opportunities, as well as economic and social inclusion (with project participants assisted to open bank accounts and secure identity cards). The project will indirectly impact 400 individuals.
Project impact
Other information
As part of this project, facilitators supported participants to navigate and create profiles in freelancing platforms, enabling them to engage in gig works involving data entry, translation, graphic design, and online marketing. Read more in our webstory.