Africa Code Week empowers teachers

Over 560 teachers have taken part in this year’s Africa Code Week (ACW) Train-the-Trainer workshops over four days in Accra and Kumasi as part of this year’s efforts to drive 21st-century skills development among African youth.

ACW instils 21st-century skills among African youth with a key focus on sustainable capacity-building and female skills development and training. Now in its fourth year, the initiative is now actively supported by key partners UNESCO YouthMobile, Google and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), 15 African governments, over 150 partners and 100 ambassadors across the continent.

Sunil Geness, Project Lead for Africa Code Week, said this year’s programme allows for increased hours for teacher engagement to support improved local capacity building and the increased sustainability of the programme.

“Equipping local teachers with key skills and teaching materials to support the advancement of 21st-century skills development forms part of our organisation-wide commitment to realizing the ambitions of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our curriculum is also focusing on going beyond only coding proficiency to fostering a deeper understanding of computational thinking and the possibilities of data science and analytics.”