Simprints and JSI built fingerprint ID into Ethiopia's community health data system, letting Health Extension Workers serving low-literacy populations without formal ID …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 29%85/100
Ethiopia's land certification programme (1998-2021) put both spouses' names/photos on joint land certificates for millions of households. Women's perceived tenure security reached …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 29%85/100
Two-year pilot in Amhara, Ethiopia (2004–2006) combining a conditional goat transfer for unmarried girls in school, safe-space mentoring and SRH education. Girls …
Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 38%76/100
A quasi-experimental group-education and community-engagement programme for young men in three low-income subcities of Addis Ababa cut self-reported past-6-month IPV perpetration from …
A World Bank/ACDI-VOCA RCT trained 197 experienced Ethiopian businesswomen who then mentored 1,128 less-experienced peers. Over three years, mentor training raised profits …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 54%67/100
With JICA support, Ethiopia built a standing government institute to disseminate Japanese-style Kaizen management; from 2012/13-2016/17 it trained nearly 69,000 people and …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 9%67/100
Plan Vivo- and Gold Standard-certified dryland restoration in Tigray, Ethiopia: landless and smallholder farmers have restored 30,000+ ha since 2016, sequestering a …
Offline AI platform for Ethiopian secondary students (grades 7–12) without internet. 42,000+ users in 200+ towns since 2023. UNESCO SDG4 Hub featured; …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 9%67/100
Founded after winning a World Bank prize, Ethiopia's Yegenew cooperative built shower and laundry facilities across Addis Ababa staffed entirely by people …
Digital Green's Farmer.Chat AI advisory tool, run with Ethiopia's Ministry of Agriculture, scaled from a 3-district pilot to a 15-district, 200,000-farmer evaluation …
Ethiopia's NIDP issues biometrically verified digital IDs (Fayda) using AI-powered multi-biometric matching. By Oct 2024: 8.8 million IDs issued, 3.2 million authentications, …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 85%52/100
UNCDF, Ethiopia's Ministry of Innovation and Technology, two national banks and Ethio Telecom ran a 3-day digital-and-financial literacy campaign reaching 48,000+ students …
Ethiopia's government-built Hawassa Industrial Park employed up to 28,000 workers (80%+ women) and generated $436m in cumulative apparel exports by 2024, but …
Canada-funded SUNCASA is restoring Dire Dawa's flood-prone Dechatu River catchment: IISD, WRI and local partners planted 313,330 seedlings in the first year …
Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 73%40/100
Ethiopia and the UAE's free national online programme has issued Udacity-certified micro-credentials in Programming, Data Science and AI to over 5 million …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 64%40/100
Heineken Ethiopia's BURQA initiative, with World Vision Ethiopia and Acacia Water, restores the Dabena and Hakim Gara catchments; an independent 2024 baseline …
Bedele, Ethiopia
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 81%33/100
Ethiopia's government pays food-insecure rural households in cash or food for public-works labour on soil/water conservation and area-closure regeneration; Phase 5 alone …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 89%27/100
Ethiopia's Ministry of Education, through its e-SHE programme, launched an offline AI teacher assistant with Huawei in May 2026, generating lesson plans …