Simprints and JSI built fingerprint ID into Ethiopia's community health data system, letting Health Extension Workers serving low-literacy populations without formal ID …
A 14-session, coffee-ceremony-format curriculum for men, women or couples in Gurage zone, Ethiopia, to shift gender norms and prevent partner violence. A …
Butajira, Ethiopia
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 26%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 26%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 …
Berhane Hewan (2004–2006) paired mentors, school supplies and a livestock incentive in Mosebo, Amhara, Ethiopia. Participating girls were three times more likely …
Mosebo (Yilmana Densa woreda), Ethiopia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 39%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 four-arm cluster-RCT tested a gender-transformative 'coffee-ceremony' discussion programme for men, women and couples in rural Ethiopia's Gurage zone; only the men's-only …
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 50%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 7%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 7%67/100
A stratified RCT with Addis Ababa businesswomen found formal business training raised profits and sales by 0.21 standard deviations and business practices …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 59%59/100
Founded after winning a World Bank prize, Ethiopia's Yegenew cooperative built shower and laundry facilities across Addis Ababa staffed entirely by people …
A two-year cluster-randomised trial across 2,345 Ethiopian households found that supplementing government extension agents with locally filmed instructional videos raised farming-technique adoption …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 62%53/100
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 83%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 …