Background
As part of its response to mitigate the gendered fall-out of the Covid-19 pandemic, Plan International defined a set of priority actions and secured budget to develop targeted, digitally-enabled interventions that will support our programme participants in the mid to long-term.
To this end, four proposals are receiving funds to leverage digital technologies to adapt existing programme & influence interventions to help get to grips with the new normal and build back better, with a specific focus on girls and young women. The proposals cover the following countries and technical areas:
Early Childhood Education (ECD): Egypt, Mali, Zambia
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR): Nepal
BACKGROUND
Digital Frontiers is a $74.4 million buy-in mechanism available to USAID Bureaus and Missions from 2017-2022. DAI implements the Digital Frontiers project, which works closely with USAID’s Global Development Lab (GDL), the Center for Digital Development (CDD), USAID Missions, the private sector, and international and local development organizations to identify successful and sustainable digital development approaches and scale their impact globally.
In August 2019, USAID/Senegal completed the Burkina Faso and Niger Digital Assessment for Food Security and Resilience and discovered that USAID is investing increasing amounts of resources in digital tools across the Sahel, but that those tools are largely siloed into various individual activities. The region does not have a coordinating mechanism to ensure adherence to the Principles for Digital Development and to the Agency’s new Digital Strategy. As a result, the risk of overlapping investments in digital tools and un