A $7.1M World Bank/GPE-financed project gave Lesotho teachers tech-enabled training and ran youth clubs in junior secondary schools, reaching 40,569 learners, cutting …
Maseru, Lesotho
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 26%85/100
Lesotho's 2006 law ended husbands' legal 'marital power' over wives, letting women independently own and register property; World Bank registry analysis (1981-2019) …
Lesotho's 2005 Local Government Elections Act randomly reserved 30% of local council seats for women-only contests, pushing female representation to 58% that …
Maseru, Lesotho
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 50%67/100
A government seed-financing and incubation facility has capacitated 27 local support organisations and incubated 150 enterprises (92 women-led, 111 youth-led), with 138 …
Maseru, Lesotho
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 68%56/100
A culturally-adapted AI conversational agent delivered sexual and reproductive health education on smartphones/tablets to 160 young women in rural Lesotho; a clinical …
Leribe, Lesotho
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 62%53/100
Under a March 2025 UNDP–Intel MoU, Lesotho set up 40 Digital Skills Learning Labs and trained 40 community 'Digital Ambassadors' using low-connectivity, …
Lesotho's Ministry of Gender, Youth and Social Development and the U.S. Embassy launched an AI Skills Development Programme under the Sebabatso youth-empowerment …
A six-month Samsung-funded programme at Lerotholi Polytechnic in Maseru trains Lesotho youth in coding, AI-enabled software, IoT and Big Data; by its …
Maseru, Lesotho
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 96%38/100
From 15–18 June 2026, Lesotho's Examinations Council hosted the 15th SAAEA conference in Maseru, drawing assessment bodies from eight Southern African countries …
Maseru, Lesotho
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 76%33/100
Introduced in 2002 by the NGO Growing Nations, Lesotho's likoti no-till pit-planting method reversed decades of maize yield decline; a 229-farmer survey …
Qacha's Nek, Lesotho
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 81%33/100
UNDP and Intel trained 40 community 'Digital Ambassadors' — teachers, religious leaders and local influencers — to deliver offline, game-based AI literacy …
Maseru, Lesotho
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 100%7/100