Digital Skills

Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic that left an estimated 250 million primary and secondary school learners across Africa not attending school, the all-virtual 2020 SAP Africa Code Week (ACW) has celebrated a successful year with students and teachers engaged in coding and digital skills learning across Africa

As the African continent prepares for a period of profound change, with the launch of a drive to create a common free trade area, increasing exposure to global markets and technological innovation affecting every sector, this year’s eLearning Africa will ask some fundamental questions.

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the education sector leading to school closures for more than two years in some countries. This resulted in learning loss that impacted education outcomes, especially in Africa. Governments in Africa took immediate responsive actions to remedy the impact of school closures by introducing policy and program changes to education delivery, articulating multi-sectoral national response plans that included remote learning to ensure learning continuity.

This report provides a general snapshot of the digitalization of TVET and skills systems in a set of countries. The primary data are derived from a desktop literature review on 8 countries, namely Angola, Gabon, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Morocco, Rwanda and Uganda and a set of questions administered through a questionnaire to experts and practitioners in the TVET sectors of Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Morocco, Rwanda and Uganda.