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3 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: South Africa (15)
A property-owner-funded Special Rates Area has run Cape Town's CBD safety and cleaning services since 2000, cutting festive-season crime 34% year-on-year and …
A 'second-generation' crime-prevention-through-design programme in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township pairs infrastructure upgrading with community safety work; a peer-reviewed 2020 study of 3,625 …
A randomised evaluation (AER 2022, n=6,891) of Harambee's job-seeker skills certificates found they raised South African youth employment by ~17% and weekly …
Since 2021, WHO and the Medicines Patent Pool have backed Afrigen Biologics in Cape Town to reverse-engineer and transfer mRNA vaccine know-how …
Since 2000, UCT's Research Contracts & Innovation office has built 40 spin-off companies worth over R250 million in university equity, including HyPlat, …
Knife Capital and Thinkroom's year-long Grindstone Accelerator works only with revenue-generating South African SMEs. Independent reporting shows cohorts growing revenue 36-88% and …
Africa’s first internationally accredited science and technology park, operating since 2001 in Tshwane. In FY2023/24 it created 389 jobs, supported 64 market-ready …
A national network of 16 university-hosted Technology Stations transfers applied engineering know-how to SMEs; one station alone serves 125+ SMMEs and 500+ …
JICA and South Africa's AIDC gave eight auto-parts suppliers years of on-site Kaizen coaching. By 2018, labour productivity had more than doubled, …
UCT's technology-transfer office has spun out 40 companies over 20 years, built spin-off equity worth R100M+ and now manages 2,500 research contracts …
A World Bank RCT split 852 Cape Town entrepreneurs into marketing-skills, finance-skills and control groups over a 10-week programme. Marketing training raised …
Cape Town co-funds a youth skills pipeline into its BPO sector (CapeBPO incubator, launched April 2025), which grew from ~45,400 to ~100,000 …
Stellenbosch University's tech-transfer office has spun out ~30 companies since 1998; in 2023 the SU Group posted a combined R422 million turnover …
Cape Town's Open Data Portal, live since January 2015 and paired with free public-library access, publishes municipal datasets for reuse — but …
South Africa's remote-work visa, gazetted in May 2024 after a two-year delay, had drawn only 24 approved visas ten months later, the …
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