EQUALS Global Partnership

Mission
Our mission is to reverse the increasing gender digital divide by:

  • Providing opportunities for collaboration; maximizing impact and supporting the scaling up of successful projects,

  • Creating a networking platform for practitioners to leverage and strengthen current efforts to bridge the gender digital divide, and

  • Measuring progress towards the goals in the partnership vision as a vehicle to accelerate the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 5, especially Target 5B.

Vision
Our vision is to:

  • Achieve equal access and use of digital technologies by 2030,

  • Empower women and girls in acquiring skills that will help them become both ICT users and creators in the digital world as well as in broader STEM fields by 2030, and

  • Empower women as ICT leaders, creators, and entrepreneurs by 2030.