12 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: South Africa (81)
South Africa's Thuthuzela Care Centres (TCCs) co-locate police, medical, legal and psychosocial services for sexual-violence survivors. Since 2006, 66+ centres serve 44,000+ …
Since 2015, University of Cape Town researchers and small-scale fishers have co-designed the ABALOBI app suite — large icon-based controls usable with …
South Africa's first rural cooperative-owned ISP, Zenzeleni built a solar WiFi mesh network in Mankosi, Eastern Cape, selling access far below incumbent …
Cape Town's SmartCape grew from 5 computers in 6 libraries in 2002 to 670 terminals across 104 branches with 500,000+ registered users, …
University of Pretoria and the hearX Foundation's free AI WhatsApp chatbot trains teachers to spot childhood hearing loss; 12,000+ South African educators …
Since 1995 South Africa has paid the unemployed to clear water-hungry invasive alien plants — 2.5M+ hectares cleared and 300,000+ people employed …
A property-owner-funded Special Rates Area has run Cape Town's CBD safety and cleaning services since 2000, cutting festive-season crime 34% year-on-year and …
A 'second-generation' crime-prevention-through-design programme in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township pairs infrastructure upgrading with community safety work; a peer-reviewed 2020 study of 3,625 …
A randomised evaluation (AER 2022, n=6,891) of Harambee's job-seeker skills certificates found they raised South African youth employment by ~17% and weekly …
Since 2021, WHO and the Medicines Patent Pool have backed Afrigen Biologics in Cape Town to reverse-engineer and transfer mRNA vaccine know-how …
South Africa's SARS uses ML models across 1.2 billion annual records to select audits and detect refund fraud. In FY2024/25 AI-driven compliance …
A cluster-randomised trial of 1,357 young people in Durban's informal settlements found men in a gender-transformative livelihoods programme reported significantly less physical …
In 1995, South African civil-society organisations and women MPs launched the world's first parliamentary gender-responsive budget analysis, contributing to VAT removal on …
Since 2000, UCT's Research Contracts & Innovation office has built 40 spin-off companies worth over R250 million in university equity, including HyPlat, …
Knife Capital and Thinkroom's year-long Grindstone Accelerator works only with revenue-generating South African SMEs. Independent reporting shows cohorts growing revenue 36-88% and …
Africa’s first internationally accredited science and technology park, operating since 2001 in Tshwane. In FY2023/24 it created 389 jobs, supported 64 market-ready …
Microloans for poor rural women combined with a gender and HIV curriculum in loan meetings. In a cluster-randomised trial, participants' partner violence …
WeThinkCode_, a free South African coding academy selecting students by aptitude, raised women's intake from 6% in 2016 to over 50% by …
TASC and Meat Naturally Africa's GRASS project issued 266,255 Verra VM0042/CCB-certified carbon units for regenerative grazing on 95,000+ ha of communal rangeland …
South Africa's higher-education department and Google signed a two-year deal for 10,000 AI, cybersecurity and data-analytics Career Certificate scholarships across universities, TVET …
Vodacom's Specific Needs programme has offered accessible products to disabled and elderly customers in South Africa since 2004: a free National Relay …
Technovera's Pelebox smart lockers, backed by South Africa's Technology Innovation Agency, let clinic patients collect chronic medication via SMS one-time password in …
South Africa's Wynberg pilot court hit an 80% conviction rate in 1993. By 2005, 26 dedicated Sexual Offences Courts averaged 64% convictions …
NICRO's PIPV programme is a 20-week, court-referred group programme for South African men who used intimate-partner violence, pairing cognitive-behavioural work on power …
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