UN Women – Nokia partnership: advancing women’s empowerment through online solutions

In 2025, UN Women and Nokia have expanded their global partnership to increase the impact for women and girls. Together, UN Women and Nokia are co-designing and rolling-out digital skills training and empowerment activities for women in Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, India, Jordan, Kenya, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Türkiye.  

The global partnership aims to facilitate women’s empowerment through tailored online solutions. Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development recognizes that “information and communications technology and global interconnectedness has great potential to accelerate human progress, to bridge the digital divide and to develop knowledge societies”. Under Sustainable Development Goal 5, the international community, including the private sector, has committed itself to enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women everywhere. The UN Women – Nokia partnership sets out to increase women’s engagement in the online world, according to country contexts and priorities.

The collaboration between UN Women and Nokia introduces an innovative partnership model to advance women's empowerment by leveraging global resources and local expertise to achieve our common objectives. The partnership is founded on a strong ethos of collaboration between UN Women and Nokia, which sees Nokia personnel across the globe participating in the direct implementation of projects alongside UN Women, as sustainable development partners. The project design and implementation are fully aligned with UN Women’s global Strategic Plan 2022-2025 and contribute to Nokia’s implementation of the Women's Empowerment Principles.

UN Women Regional Office for the Arab States leads on overall coordination of this global partnership, leveraging the results and lessons learned from phase 1. In the Arab States region in 2025, the programme focuses on five countries: Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia.