OPPORTUNITIES
Community of Practice
What is the Community of Practice?
The Women in the Digital Economy Community of Practice (Community of Practice) launched in March 2024 during the 68th Commission on the Status of Women. It brings together the partners of the Women in the Digital Economy Initiative and key stakeholders engaged in closing the Gender Digital Divide. The Community of Practice aims to support and grow partnerships, to foster knowledge-sharing and to advance greater collaboration and coordination among stakeholders.
The Community of Practice is a collaborative project between USAID and ITU under EQUALS, the Global Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age.
Benefits
Members of the Community of Practice are part of a global community of diverse stakeholders and potential partners that includes donors, private sector companies and practitioners.
Through the Community of Practice, members have the opportunity to:
- Learn and share their insights, including proven, evidence-based solutions, related to closing the Gender Digital Divide and to receive regular updates on key takeaways and learnings from WiDEF-funded projects.
- Drive the agenda for and help accelerate progress towards closure of the Gender Digital Divide.
- Interface with potential partners, funders, funding opportunities, and investors or investees.
- Increase their ability to advance proven, evidence-based solutions through partnership opportunities vetted by WiDEF’s Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) approach.
- Raise public awareness of their initiatives or investments aimed at closing the gender digital divide.
Fun facts
The Community of Practice convenes its
members primarily virtually with at least
one annual in-person meeting.
The Community of Practice includes a
diverse set of global stakeholders working
across different sectors and in various capacities
to close the Gender Digital Divide.
How to join the
Community of Practice
Organizations interested in joining the Community of Practice can send an email to genderdigital@usaid.gov with the
subject line “Request to learn more and join the CoP”