Tech Herfrica is a leading, award-winning digital inclusion organization in Africa, advancing digital equity, digital literacy, and economic empowerment for women, girls, entrepreneurs, and underserved communities. Our work focuses on bridging the digital divide in rural Africa by delivering scalable digital inclusion programs that expand access to smartphones, strengthen digital skills, improve financial inclusion, and enable participation in the digital economy.

We design and implement innovative, localized, and evidence-based digital inclusion initiatives that address low digital literacy, limited access to technology, and exclusion from digital and financial systems. By integrating digital literacy training, financial education, entrepreneurship development, access to finance, and e-commerce enablement, we empower rural women, farmers, traders, youth, and small business owners to leverage technology for income growth and sustainable livelihoods. Our initatives directly contribute to poverty reduction, food security, market access, and inclusive digital transformation across Africa.

Our leadership in digital inclusion in Africa has earned international recognition. Tech Herfrica is the recipient of the 2023 SDG Digital Game Changers Award (People Category) issued by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the 2025 MEA Business Award for Best Digital Inclusion Initiative in Africa. We have also received multiple awards for women’s empowerment, gender equality, nonprofit excellence, and agricultural innovation, reinforcing our position as a trusted digital inclusion partner across the continent.

Our impact has been independently assessed and validated by 60 Decibels, a global impact measurement firm engaged by leading philanthropic institutions including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The independent evaluation confirmed the measurable outcomes, relevance, and effectiveness of our digital inclusion and financial inclusion programs, strengthening our credibility as a data-driven and impact-led organization.

Through our digital inclusion and digital skills programs, we provide access to smartphones, distribute digital devices, deliver digital literacy and financial literacy training, facilitate business finance, and connect participants to digital marketplaces and e-commerce platforms. To date, we have enhanced the digital and financial literacy of more than 6,391 rural women, girls, youth, and entrepreneurs across 22 communities in three African countries. We have disbursed over ₦4 million in business finance, facilitated more than ₦10 million in trade, and distributed over 400 mobile devices to accelerate digital access and meaningful connectivity. Participants in our programs have recorded an average 56 percent increase in income, demonstrating the economic power of inclusive digital transformation. While women and girls remain central to our mission, our digital inclusion programs also support entrepreneurs, SMEs, farmers, traders, and underserved populations with low digital literacy, ensuring broader participation in Africa’s growing digital economy. Our long-term goal is to impact one million rural women and girls across Africa by 2030 while expanding sustainable digital inclusion ecosystems that drive inclusive growth at scale. Through strategic partnerships with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the International Trade Centre (ITC), ECOWAS, GIZ, financial institutions, and development partners, Tech Herfrica continues to lead high-impact digital inclusion, digital skills development, financial inclusion, and e-commerce capacity-building initiatives across Africa. Tech Herfrica stands at the forefront of digital inclusion in Africa, advancing digital equity, expanding digital access, and enabling underserved communities to thrive in the digital age.

We were passing through a village in Nigeria when we stopped by to buy fresh farm produce from a seller along the road. Our purchase of about 80,000 naira (100 USD) made her cry and we made a surprising discovery about her life and what we needed to do to help her increase her income. Watch the video to find out more.

To equip rural African women, girls, and youth with the knowledge, skills, and tools to boost their literacy, income and well-being by leveraging technology, finance, and innovative programmes.

We are working towards a continent where women, girls, and youth in underserved communities in Africa are enabled to prosper in the digital economy.

Diversity & Inclusion

As an organization, we value equity, inclusion, and dignity for all and this is evident in the composition of our team.

Climate Resilience

This core value underlines our responsibility to safeguard the environment, protect vulnerable communities, and foster sustainable practices. By embracing climate resilience, we strive to contribute our quota towards building a resilient, sustainable, and harmonious world where every action is a step towards a greener and more secure future. Our initiatives and internal policies are developed with this mindset.

Collaborative partnerships

We actively engage in collaborative partnerships for the achievement of our corporate goals and, by extension, the Sustainable Development Goals.

Transparency & Accountability

We conduct our activities in an open and fair manner, and we communicate effectively with key stakeholders. We are accountable to our donors, partners, government institutions, beneficiaries, employees and other stakeholders. In this regard, we have embedded strong governance systems that ensure adequate oversight and clear separation of power.

Innovation

We deploy an agile approach in the creation of our programmes/initiatives, and we learn from past experiences to build better programmes that solve identified problems for our target beneficiaries.