Solar-powered, offline tablets deliver adaptive literacy and numeracy lessons in rural Sierra Leone schools, partnered with the Ministry of Education since 2023. …
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 6%87/100
Sierra Leone's National Medical Supplies Agency and University of Pennsylvania researchers built a decision-aware ML tool that raised essential-medicine consumption 19% (p<0.01) …
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 10%86/100
Since 2010, Sierra Leone has given free healthcare to pregnant women, lactating mothers and under-fives. Institutional deliveries rose from 27% to 57% …
Statistics Sierra Leone and the GRID3 partnership use machine-learning building-footprint detection on satellite imagery to map population at 1-hectare resolution, powering 223 …
Blended digital-literacy training for 150 frontline immunization officers across 96 health centres in Sierra Leone raised computer-literacy proficiency from 9% to 81% …
Sierra Leone's presidential innovation directorate built a biometric national digital ID now held by over 5 million citizens, using local community brokers …
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 42%71/100
Freetown City Council piloted a smartphone-verified, micropayment-incentivised tree-planting model that has geotagged and tracked over 950,000 trees, won a $1M Bloomberg Global …
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 17%67/100
Rising Academies, founded in Sierra Leone in 2014, launched Tari in 2025: a Claude-powered WhatsApp assistant giving teachers real-time lesson help, alongside …
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 54%67/100
Sierra Leone's Teaching Service Commission, with EdTech Hub and Fab Inc., built a Nobel-inspired matching algorithm pairing teachers' preferences with school needs. …
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 9%67/100
In 2021 Freetown named Africa's first Chief Heat Officer, pairing the new office with solar-powered market shade canopies and a landslide-driven afforestation …
Since 2020, Freetown has planted over 1.2 million trees (82% survival, GPS/photo-verified), paying residents as 'tree guardians' via carbon-market tokens, aiming for …
Freetown City Council pays community growers, mostly women and young people, per digitally verified surviving tree via a GPS/photo-audited app; about 500,000 …