Building A Digitally Inclusive World

For marginalized & rural communities everywhere

Youth For Women Foundation Climate Action

Goal For 2030

By 2030, our foundation is determined to educate, empower, and mobilize 100,000 children, young people, and women in digital literacy, internet inclusion, digital healthcare, and human rights. Our mission is to bridge the historic digital, geographic, and gender divides in the world’s most marginalized and rural communities.

We are set to spearhead the largest and first-ever multilateral Digital Healthcare partnership in Europe and the MENA region. This groundbreaking initiative will unite governments, civil society organizations, tech companies, private sector leaders, and academic institutions to foster a prosperous, inclusive, and sustainable alliance. Our goal is to drive global investments in internet and digital healthcare infrastructure development, ensuring that marginalized and rural women and young people everywhere can access the health resources they need to thrive

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Our Digital Inclusion Initiatives

RURAL EDUCATIONAL & AWARENESS INITIATIVES

Youth For Women Foundation has been a trailblazer in digital inclusion, directly impacting over 1,040 rural women and young people. Our community-based digital literacy initiative has reached 20+ rural communities, upskilling 465+ individuals. We've equipped these youth with leadership training and resources to launch 31 awareness campaigns, educating hundreds more on their digital rights and driving tangible change in their communities and online.

NATIONAL DIGITAL INCLUSION ADVOCACY

WE have significantly shaped digital health inclusion by advocating for comprehensive national policies with UN Member States, including the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and the Government of Poland. Through strategic engagement and expert input, the Foundation has influenced national strategies to ensure equitable access to digital health technologies, addressing disparities and promoting inclusive healthcare solutions.

GLOBAL DIGITAL INCLUSION AND POLICY ADVOCACY

Youth For Women Foundation’s President and Directors, renowned experts in Digital Healthcare and Internet Governance, advocate for digital health values at key UN agencies and international institutions, including WHO, UN DESA, UNITAR, ICANN, and others. Our mission is to form a global coalition for Digital Mental Health, focusing on transforming rural and marginalized healthcare through targeted investments and policy advocacy by our global partners, youth networks, and communities.

Resilience to Digital Disinformation Campaign

Youth For Women Foundation has partnered with the International Republican Institute to execute a regional campaign for the capacity-building of 20+ project managers and heads of local civil society nonprofits on fostering Democracy and Resilience to Media Disinformation skills among their communities; particularly around the Covid-19 infodemic and prior to the 2021 Iraqi National Elections.

We had also led a large-scale advocacy program whic intensively built the digital skills and literacy of 75+ young people, and empowered them to start 15 virtual awareness campaigns on media disinformation, impacting hundrends of marginalized youth and women.

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Digital Skills Training

Youth For Women Foundation has gathered 78 young people from 11 rural, refugee, and semi-urban communities of north Iraq, in a six month advocacy program; to develop them into frontline leaders and innovators of the Digital literacy transformation of rural and vulnerable communities.

Digital Awareness Campaigns

We provided young leaders access to unrestricted internet, laptops and digital smartphones and devices to enhance their digital literacy and scale up their social media outreach to educate hundreds of young people and women in the local language on sensitization to disinformation for their communities.

Digital Youth Network

All young leaders have successfully joined the Digital Youth Network of Youth For Women Foundation and our Alumni network, in which we provided them with program graduation certificates, career coaching sessions, and peer-to-peer mentoring for sustaining their creative ideas and initiatives for Digital inclusion.

OUR STAKEHOLDERS' TESTIMONIALS

Medical Professionals

“Youth For Women Foundation have a very important role in empowering young adults on digital and healthcare access in rural and remote communities of Iraq”

Dr. Abdel Kareem

- Medical Consultant, Iraq

Youth Ambassadors

“I have, for the first time, learnt how to effectively use online websites for searching legitimate information. It opened my eyes to the devastating effects of media disinformation in real life, and how to prevent it. Those real examples of misinformation has helped me detect them in our Iraqi and Syrian communities”

Mr. Nazeer Mustafa

- Digital Literacy Campaign Alumni Leader, Iraq

Rural Beneficiaries

“Me and my family have never been able to have internet or phones because of poverty. But now after this training (Rural Digital Literacy Initiative), I realized it is my human right to accesss this technologies and help educate myself on how to read and write because I could never go to any school”

Amina Harar

- A woman residing in rural Iraq