Based on the community-based action research by young researchers from Rwanda, this case study explores the barriers young women face in building skills and experience in digitally enabled livelihoods, social innovation, and what policies, programs and/or approaches would better support their needs and priorities.
Impact / Outcome
DOT Rwanda’s Young Women Researchers (YWRs) identified how consideration for meaningful inclusion needs to take a holistic approach that can respond to the overlapping complexities of young women’s needs and priorities. Key findings are identified across the key themes access. safety and inclusion. One findings shows that when women gain access, they open the doors for others to follow them.
Funding sources
Fully Private
Key Metrics
Increasing levels of adoption of digital tools and of digital literacy and skills among Rwandan citizens, particularly young women.
Operating model
Fully privateYear published
01 June 2023 
Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT)