Support from the Mastercard Foundation is strengthening Africa’s educational technology ecosystem to prepare young people with the digital skills for dignified, fulfilling work. Launched in 2022, the partnership helps countries develop resilient, hybrid learning models and align digital skills of African youth with the skills employers need.
Knowledge Pack (French) informs policymakers about the potential of open schooling to ensure learning continuity in fragile contexts and during disruption in the education system.
AI and Tertiary Education: Building Skills and Resilience for a Changing World Spotify, Apple
How a Student in Ethiopia Is Using AI to Personalize Learning for Students Across Africa Spotify, Apple
AI, Assessment & 21st Century Skills Spotify, Apple
AI, Creative Skills and Youth Opportunities in Zimbabwe Spotify, Apple
AI in Education Community of Practice
The AI in Education Community of Practice brings together global policymakers and practitioners to share practical insights on how AI can improve teaching, learning, and skills development. Since its launch in 2025, it has built a strong international platform for exchange on issues ranging from teachers and AI to assessment, AI literacy, workforce skills, and AI safety in education.
Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, The Gambia: Youth–RISE (Remediation, Innovation, and Skill Enhancement)
EdTech Policy Academy is the primary vehicle for building the capacity of countries to design and implement policies and strategies for digital skills and resilient learning systems—using a blend of online synchronous (live virtual workshops) and asynchronous (self-paced e-learning) sessions. All videos
Mauritius: How can EdTech Strategies Translate into Real Skills and Opportunities?
In Mauritius, collaboration with the World Bank and the Mastercard Foundation is helping shape a more agile education system—one that responds to new learning models and prepares students for a changing job market. Video: Building EdTech Systems - Lessons From Mauritius
Ethiopia: EdTech, Entrepreneurship and Jobs: Connecting Learning to Opportunity
In Ethiopia, a growing ecosystem of EdTech entrepreneurs is contributing to better learning outcomes while also helping young people build skills and access new economic opportunities. Video: Building EdTech Systems - Lessons From Ethiopia
EdTech Podcast🎧 Building EdTech Systems: Lessons from Ethiopia and Mauritius in the World Bank – Mastercard Foundation Partnership
EdTech Readiness Index is the World Bank's tool that collects and reports information on institutions’ and systems' readiness to use EdTech for hybrid/blended learning for resilience.
ETRI presentation on data collection, implementation guide for governments, results, and trends | Video (EdTech Connect event, Nairobi, Kenya, August 2025)
ETRI Basic Education
ETRI to examine the country’s readiness to use technology in schools. Implementation in Ghana, Madagascar, Rwanda, Seychelles, and Uganda.
Ghana: Review of Available Technology and Policy on Education for Hybrid Learning Systems
ETRI to examine the country’s readiness to integrate technology in Technical and Vocational Education and Training. Implementation in Madagascar, Uganda, and Zambia
Teachers’ Digital Skills and Competency Frameworks (Knowledge Pack) guides the reader to identify and prioritize teachers’ digital and digital pedagogical skills for resilient learning and select a digital competency framework that responds to the country’s needs and longer-term vision
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
Ghana: Strengthening Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in Ghana’s Secondary and Technical Education
Diagnoses key constraints affecting STEM education in Ghana’s general and technical secondary schools to inform policy recommendations and strategic investment opportunities.
The Future of EdTech in Nigeria: A World Bank–Mastercard Foundation Partnership: Spotify, Apple
Digital Skills for Africa report
Forthcoming
The report presents the first comprehensive analysis of digital skills provision across sub-Saharan Africa and draws on new online job vacancy data in four countries (Kenya, Uganda, South Africa and Nigeria) to expose training gaps that could limit the region’s ability to grow employment, improve productivity and innovate and compete in the digital economy.
Interactive “how-to” toolkit designed to help policymakers develop, strengthen, or implement an action plan to develop digital skills. It includes a mind map to navigate resources by theme from a policymaker’s perspective and brings together technical papers, guidance notes, bulletins, reports, and project documents—all in one place.
South Africa – Exploring Private Sector Models for Digital Skills Development of Youth in South Africa
Maps South Africa’s digital skills pipeline and identifies reforms to better align education and training supply with labor market demand, from foundational skills to advanced ICT pathways. Report | Executive Summary | Presentation | Completion Note
South Sudan: Digital Skills for Youth for Agriculture
Report analyzes the digital agriculture ecosystem and identifies foundational institutional, technical, and workforce requirements needed to develop digital agriculture skills and inform the design of a two-year diploma program.Completion Note
Country bulletins highlighting skills demand trends across various occupations from 2020 to June 2024, based on analysis of employer demands from Online Job Vacancy data sourced from the firm Lightcast for 4 countries.
Country bulletins highlighting skills demand trends across various occupations from 2020 to June 2024.
Digital Skills for Boosting Higher Education Graduates Jobs Prospects in Morocco and Tunisia
Analyzes indicative digital skills demand signals to inform workforce development, graduate employability, and alignment with emerging labor market opportunities. Morocco Policy Note | Tunisia Policy Note | Completion Note
Digital Skills Supply
A robust, objective task-based Pix assessment evaluates individuals' digital skills to understand their competencies and proficiency levels in formal education (primary, secondary, TVET) in 7 Sub-Saharan African countries, with a focus on post-secondary students and teachers.
Liberia: Technical assistance for digital skills development in senior secondary education
Multi-Country Report on findings and insights (forthcoming)
Benin: Digitalization of the Agriculture Sector | Digital Skills Development for Vulnerable Youth
Technical design analyzing digital competence and the role of teachers’ readiness in digital skills | DS4A initiative report on recommendations for enhancing digital skills development among students and teachers | Completion Note
Blog “Digital Readiness, Real Skills: Lessons from Zambia’s TVET Sector”
Self-Reported Surveys: Côte d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Mali, São Tomé and Príncipe, Uganda
Subjective evaluation method that captures individuals’ perceptions of their own digital skills level by responding to structured questions about ability, confidence, frequency of use, or familiarity with specific digital tasks and tools.
Ethiopia: Technical Assistance for Development and Delivery of Digital Skills Training Programs for Youth Employability:Report on self-assessment of TVET teachers using the SELFIE digital skills test | Completion Note
São Tomé and Príncipe - Designing Digital Skills to Transform Technical Education: Surveys conducted using the SELFIE for TEACHERS self-assessment tool. ISEC Analysis (Portuguese) related to the conclusions of the teachers’ digital skills assessment | STP Analysis (Portuguese) related to the conclusions of the survey on teachers’ digital skills
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