Empowering Women with ICT Skills
- Adult education
- Community development
- Gender equity
- Early childhood development
- Education
- Income generation
- Poverty alleviation
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Founding Story
Ngawang
Phuntsho
READ (Rural Education and Development) Bhutan
, THI, Thimphu
, SAR, Chuzagang
1‐5 years
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Operating for 1‐5 years
Access to technology, Access to education/training, Access to economic opportunity.
We believe that to change something big, we need to start doing small things. And it is small projects like this that will create a big impact on our women. We talk of empowering women and organize high level meetings and seminars, and spend millions to find out something that we already know exists. READ Bhutan thinks that it is through small trainings like this one that we can possibly and practically bring out a huge impact to the society in general. Empowering Women with ICT Skills will train and introduce women to modern technologies. This way we will be able to reduce the gap that exists between the privileged women who stay in the urban centers and their counterparts in the rural villages. Most of the projects READ Bhutan has undertaken have a strong women focus.
The training program will provide skills to more than 500 women in Chuzagang and the neighboring villages. These skilled women will be able to find jobs either part or full time. As a result they will be in a position to earn additional income for the family. For the same reason, these women will now be able to send their children to schools and support them to get quality education. If this training proves successful and that we are able to find relevant jobs for the women trained through this program, we will replicate the programs and reach women in the other parts of the country and develop a highly skilled women workforce for the nation. This will truly be one women empowering project.
We will have developed a course content, identified women participants and have one batch trained in the basics.
Develop a course content relevant to the women keeping mind the current market trend
Identify target women and find out if they are willing to join the program
Install relevant accounting software in the READ Center
In a year's time, we will have developed course content for the advanced training and will have 500 women trained in the basics
Develop relevant course content for the advanced accounting training programs based on the ability of women shown in the basics
Start train the trainers program that will teach a new batch of women participants
Initiate advanced training programs for those who have completed the basics
We partner with various NGOs and local government agencies while implement projects. To carry out this program successfully, READ Bhutan will collaborate with Athang, the local ICT firm and the local government offices in Chuzagang. The community also has a women's group whose members are now more than two hundred. We will partner with the women's group to identify target women and to find out the relevancy and the level of training needed for different sections of women in the community. Finally we will partner with a local farmers' group Chuzagang Agricultural Farmers' Cooperative (CAFCO)
READ Bhutan needs help mostly in terms of investment, development of our human resource capacity. But we are also learning that collaboration is the best way to go about with any projects.