16 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: Kenya (69)
Safaricom's M-Pesa turned basic phones into bank accounts across Kenya. A landmark Science study found it lifted 194,000 households out of poverty; …
Nairobi's Signs Media Kenya broadcasts free Kenyan Sign Language content via Signs TV and, through its assistALL app, brought paid sign-language interpretation …
Born in Nairobi during Kenya's 2008 post-election violence, Ushahidi's open-source crowdsourcing platform has since been deployed 150,000+ times in 160+ countries, and …
A six-month AT2030 study by the Global Disability Innovation Hub gave 193 Deaf/hard-of-hearing and blind/partially-sighted Kenyans smartphones and accessibility-feature training, delivered locally …
eKitabu, a Nairobi edtech nonprofit, builds born-accessible e-books for blind/low-vision learners and Kenyan Sign Language video storybooks for deaf learners with Kenya's …
Kenya's Ajira Digital programme has trained 390,968 young people across all 47 counties since 2017 via 101 free-access empowerment centres, connecting 119,462 …
Since 2006, Kounkuey Design Initiative has co-designed 11 flood-resilient public spaces with Kibera residents on reclaimed dumpsites, installing 520m of flood protection …
In Nairobi's informal settlements, a paired girls' empowerment/self-defense and boys' bystander curriculum cut sexual assault by 3.7 percentage points in a cluster-randomised …
Founded in 1977 by Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai, the Green Belt Movement mobilised rural Kenyan women to plant 51 million trees across …
Close the Gap refurbishes decommissioned European computers at its Mombasa Circular Economy Hub, selling low-cost units to Kenyan SMEs and schools while …
EIDU pairs teacher training with an AI-adaptive app that personalises literacy/numeracy practice for Kenyan public pre-primary pupils. A cluster-RCT across 291 schools …
Kenya's Women Enterprise Fund (WEF, 2007) is a government credit facility providing affordable loans to women entrepreneurs. By 2022 it had reached …
Since 2010, Nairobi's AkiraChix has trained under-resourced East African women in software development via its residential codeHive programme; reported graduation near 90% …
Kenya's first citywide Special Planning Area designation (2017) gave 100,560 households on 689 acres of Nairobi's Mukuru settlements a co-produced governance mechanism; …
A university-NGO consortium GPS-mapped Nairobi's ~130 informal matatu routes and 3,000+ stops, producing the first standardised (GTFS) map of an informal transit …
Nairobi startup Signvrse built Terp 360, an AI-driven 3D avatar that translates English speech and text into Kenyan Sign Language in real …
Founded in 2001 as a charitable trust of Nairobi Women's Hospital, GVRC has treated some 65,000 survivors of rape and domestic violence …
Kenya's national informal-settlements upgrading programme has prepared over 23,000 land titles and delivered roads, drainage, water and sewer connections that the government …
WeFarm let farmers without internet ask and answer farming questions by free SMS/USSD, matching questions via NLP; it grew to over 1.8 …
Kenya's M-Pesa, launched 2007, lifted an est. 194,000 households (2% of Kenyan households) out of poverty by 2014, with female-headed households gaining …
Jacaranda Health's PROMPTS service uses a Swahili-language AI model to answer 10,000-12,000 daily SMS questions from nearly 3 million enrolled Kenyan mothers, …
Kenyan edtech M-Shule delivers AI-adaptive formative assessment and personalised literacy/numeracy practice via basic SMS, no internet or smartphone required. A 2025 peer-reviewed …
Kenya's first REDD+ project: Wildlife Works protects 200,000 ha of dry Acacia-Commiphora forest between Tsavo East and West National Parks, with 13.9 …
Nairobi's first major open tech innovation space, founded in 2010 with Omidyar Network and Hivos backing, catalysing Kenya's 'Silicon Savannah' developer and …
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