Ecuador's 2020 electoral reform mandated 50/50 alternating gender parity in all candidate lists. Women in the National Assembly rose from ~30% pre-reform …
Quito, Ecuador
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 24%92/100
Banco Pichincha had two blind customers, Mauricio Suárez and Lenin Carrera, help redesign its app's screen-reader navigation, launched in Quito in July …
Ecuador's MINTEL operates 888 community infocentres and 25 megainfocentros across 741 parishes (63% of all parishes), providing free internet and ICT training …
Quito's planning authority and an Austrian/Ecuadorian/CIAT research team used the GeoCitizen participatory-GIS platform to run a 2013 land-zoning process on Ilaló Mountain …
Quito, Ecuador
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 32%78/100
Since 2013, Ecuador's AEI has coordinated 185 public, private and academic allies to support entrepreneurs, reporting 15,000+ entrepreneurs assisted, 3,325 jobs and …
Quito, Ecuador
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 61%68/100
Ecuador's Superintendencia de Competencia Económica adopted the country's first public-sector AI ethics code in 2025, aligned with UNESCO's AI Recommendation, and opened …
Quito, Ecuador
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 32%67/100
Ecuador's Registro Civil migrated 13.7 million legacy records onto an Innovatrics ABIS platform to issue biometric passports and electronic cédulas from one …
Quito, Ecuador
Good practice
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 14%67/100
Ecuador's customs authority (SENAE) deployed a Palantir AI/data-analytics platform in May 2025 to risk-profile import/export declarations. In its first 100 days, SENAE …
Guayaquil, Ecuador
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 46%60/100
Ecuador's SRI deploys Falcon, cross-referencing 400+ data types to assign each taxpayer a 0–1,000 risk score. In 2023 it identified 60,000 previously …
Quito, Ecuador
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 14%60/100
Ecuador's national PES since 2008 pays landowners and indigenous communities US$30–60/ha/yr to conserve 1.6M+ ha of native forest and páramo, cutting annual …
Quito, Ecuador
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 74%57/100
Cuenca's municipal utility ETAPA has co-managed the ~29,000-hectare Parque Nacional Cajas — source of the rivers that supply the city's drinking water …
Cuenca, Ecuador
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 27%53/100
GEF-funded campaign by Galápagos National Park and the Charles Darwin Foundation removed 140,000+ feral goats from 500,000+ ha across Pinta, Santiago and …
Puerto Villamil, Ecuador
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 67%52/100
UTMACH built a generative-AI vocational-guidance chatbot for Ecuadorian students; in a quasi-experimental trial with 351 students, its picks matched the government's SENESCYT …
Machala, Ecuador
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 83%40/100