In partnership with the World Bank’s Digital Development Partnership (DDP), EQUALS’ Access Coalition and the GSMA, DOT Rwanda implemented the Digital Skills for Business (DS4B), through a pilot project targeting women entrepreneurs in 7 communities, to boost their ICT knowledge, identify and leverage growing digital ecosystems, and integrate new digital tools to improve their business outcomes.
Impact / Outcome
Outcomes from the pilot project revealed that Digital Skills training improves the use and
integration of digital tools for business purposes:
- 183 young women entrepreneurs received training and upskilling from 15 DOT
trained Digital Champions, and 10 Women Researchers led the needs assessments
for the projects;
- 77% increase of skills across all levels of ICT skills and abilities; ranging from sending
- emails, using e-government services, social media, to selling a product/service online;
- 44% increase in smartphone ownership;
- 15% increase in adopting e-wallets;
- 46% increase in daily use of mobile money transactions - 53% of which was use of
- mobile money for purchasing and making payments; and
- 80% reported a high level of awareness on the importance of digital safety and
- security.
Funding sources
Private
Key Metrics
Support digitally enabled initiatives
Operating model
Public-private partnershipYear published
01 January 2022 
