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Equity-Free Funding Opportunity for Fem Tech Solutions
The UNICEF Venture Fund is calling for applications from start-ups developing cutting edge tech solutions improving access to quality health care and services, and ensuring socio-economic participation of women and girls. The Fund is offering up to US$100K in equity-free funding to early-stage, for-profit startu...
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UNICEF and the Global Video Game Coalition partner to open career pathways for girls in the video game and tech sector
Geneva, 8 November 2024, – UNICEF and the Global Video Game Coalition (GVGC) announce their partnership to equip adolescent girls with the technological and leadership skills needed to thrive in a digital future. Every year, adolescent girls and young women in low and middle-income countries miss out on USD 15 bi...
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Girls in Central Asia Take to the Sky
As part of a joint project between UNICEF and Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU), over 230 girls from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, all participants of the UniSat program, launched in March seven ultra-modern nanosatellites into the stratosphere to analyze air pollution in these countries. Nanos...
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Digital approaches for user testing with girls
COVID-19 has impacted girls in unprecedented ways. The pandemic may result in more than 11 million girls dropping out, or lacking access to school . Reaching girls has never been more important, and digital platforms play a huge role in providing support and information to girls, through the devices they use. Oky,...
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Giving Girls the Right Skills for the Job
The Middle East and North Africa have the world’s highest rates of youth unemployment. In Lebanon, 1 out of every 3 young people is unemployed. In Jordan, more than half of young people are unemployed. These numbers are expected to increase in the coming years as a result of the pandemic, worsening youth unemploym...
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Oky: Trailblazing Girl-Centered Tech
Oky is the world’s first digital menstruation app co-created with and for girls., The app provides evidence-based information about periods, puberty, and reproductive health in fun, creative and positive ways, straight into girls’ hands. Oky is tailored to girls’ lives, language and digital realities and is curren...
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Smart Investing: Building a gender balanced portfolio
In 2019, the UNICEF Innovation Fund launched its Smart Investing Initiative to build a diverse portfolio of startups, with an ambitious target of 50% female-led investments., Supporting female-led companies is more important than ever, COVID-19 has had far-reaching effects on jobs, economies, and livelihoods. It h...
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Girls' satellites soar to the stars
Cutting-edge nanosatellites, designed and built by dynamic young women and girls from across Kazakhstan, lifted-off to explore the cosmos today. The satellites will take high-resolution images of earth and the stars. Sensors will gather data on radiation, pressure, gravity, light and gas composition. Reams of da...
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Girls Reach for the Stars
As a young girl in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Amina Sadu loved reading the encyclopedia. From dinosaurs to ancient Greek mythology, she immersed herself in study. In the book, The Myths of Ancient Greece, she discovered the story of the inventor Daedalus, who built wings made with wax so he and his son Icarus could fly. ...
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Oky: Co-created with girls, for girls
"I want to know what to do when I get my first period and what changes to expect during puberty so I feel prepared, assured and confident to manage them.” “I want to know if it is dangerous if I miss a period and if irregular periods are abnormal so I can stop being anxious." Girls have important questions about t...
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Internet of Good Things: Empowering Girls in Zambia
As with many countries on the African continent, the push in Zambia for all children to receive a primary school education over the last decade has led to a major increase in school attendance. But, as children progress through the school system, the number of girls drops away, with lack of money for school fees, ...
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Opening Pathways for Girls and Women in Science
In photo: Khanysile Buthelezi, one of the female researchers on the biotechnology innovation team In 1903 Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and in 1911 became the first person (and only woman) to win the Nobel Prize twice. To this day, she is the only person to receive a Nobel prize in two ...