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Solution Overview

Solution Name:

SheSABI App

One-line solution summary:

She SABI Learning APP aims to train low-income girls&women who do not have any source of livelihood on vocational,digital,financial skills

Pitch your solution.

Many low-income young girls and women lack skills to help them generate livelihood income, unfortunately, many of these women are bread winners of their family. They merely survive via hawking, scavenging and daily jobs that pay them peanuts. Even few who has means of livelihood lack proper Business/Digital/Financial skills to manage their businesses. Also due to Covid-19, the number has increased.

She SABI Learning APP aims to train and empower low-income young girls and women who do not have any source of livelihood on vocational, business, digital, financial literacy skills etc in English, Pidgin and their local dialect. She SABI will help them learn, start, sustain and succeed in their businesses.

SheSABI can be scaled by localizing the content for different countries, that is creating content in local languages.

What specific problem are you solving?

Many low-income young girls and women in Africa lack skills ( vocational/business/digital and financial) to help
them generate livelihood income, unfortunately, many of these women are
bread winners of their family. They merely survive via hawking,
scavenging and daily jobs that pay them peanuts. Even few who has means
of livelihood lack proper Business/Digital/Financial skills to manage
their businesses.

She SABI platform tackles 4 of the Strategic Priority Areas which are;
•Women empowerment
•Improving access to education
•STEM
•Entrepreneurship development

What is your solution?

She SABI learning APP aims to train and equip young girls and women living in poverty on different vocational/digital/business and financial skills, so they can earn income to feed their families.

Basically our beneficiaries download the App from Play store, they register to get login details, after signing up, they select the skill they want to learn and start learning. After each lesson they answer questions based on skills learnt, if they answer correctly they are issue a certificate. It is a mobile application built with React Native.

Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?

Our target beneficiaries are low-income young girls and women in Africa lack skills ( vocational/business/digital and financial) to help them generate livelihood income, unfortunately, many of these women are bread winners of their family. They merely survive via hawking, scavenging and daily jobs that pay them peanuts. Even few who has means of livelihood lack proper Business/Digital/Financial skills to manage their businesses.

As an organization we have worked in different communties engaging these girls and women by empowering them with vocational skills offline, due to our conversation and relationship with them and also due to different calls for empowerment from women in some parts of Nigeria and other African countries we were able to design SheSABI.

With SheSABI App we are removing the barriers that most young girls and women from marginalized communities face when they want to learn a skill, these barriers include high cost of learning from informal/formal vocational training schools, burden of transportation, graduation expenses after learning, unpaid labor by their madam’s or oga’s who use them as house-help when they go learn under them, lack of start-up equipment after learning etc

Which dimension of the Digital Workforce Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Prepare those entering, re-entering, or who are already in the workforce for the future of work with affordable and equitable digital skills, training, and employment opportunities

Explain how the problem you are addressing, the solution you have designed, and the population you are serving align with the Challenge.

She SABI learning APP aims to train and equip young girls and women living in poverty on different vocational/digital/business and financial skills, so they can earn income to feed their families.
She SABI platform tackles 4 of the Strategic Priority Areas which are;
•Women empowerment
•Improving access to education
•STEM
•Entrepreneurship development

This aligns with option one as SheSABI helps low-income women acquire relevant skills, to start or work with an existing business,,provides digital skills to under-served women, trainings and other economic opportunities.

In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?

Lagos, Nigeria

Is your solution already being implemented in one or more of the following ServiceNow locations (Australia/New Zealand, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Singapore, the United Kingdom, United States), or are you planning to expand your solution to one or more of these countries?

I am planning to expand my solution to one or more of these ServiceNow locations

Please provide an overview of your expansion plans. What is the market opportunity for your business or product here?

SheSABI App is a platform that trains low-income young girls and women on relevant and sustainable livelihood skills, also with digital, financial and business skills.

Relevant skills in specific regions are uploaded for easy learning.

What is your solution’s stage of development?

Prototype: A venture or organization building and testing its product, service, or business model.

Explain why you selected this stage of development for your solution.

As an organization we have impacted over 7000 young girls and women with vocational,financial,digital and business skills by going to their communities.

We are using SheSABI App as a prototype to help us scale our impact due to request from beneficiaries we cannot reach physically, SheSABI App is currently undergoing approval on Google Play store.

Who is the Team Lead for your solution?

Okocha Nkem

Do you qualify for and would you like to be considered for the ServiceNow US Racial Equity Prize? If you select Yes, explain how you are qualified for the prize in the additional question that appears.

No, I do not wish to be considered for this prize, even if ServiceNow is specifically interested in my solution/I do not qualify for this prize