12 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: South Africa (56)
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+ …
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 …
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 …
WeThinkCode_, a free South African coding academy selecting students by aptitude, raised women's intake from 6% in 2016 to over 50% by …
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 …
South Africa's ECD subsidy reaches 1.5 million children (2022, up from ~700k in 2019) via centres staffed over 90% by women. A …
A national network of 16 university-hosted Technology Stations transfers applied engineering know-how to SMEs; one station alone serves 125+ SMMEs and 500+ …
A WhatsApp-based platform connecting up to 13 million South Africans to grants, COVID-19 testing and municipal services became a landmark antitrust case …
Facing evidence that AI-text detectors misclassify non-native English writing, South Africa's UCT, Stellenbosch, UFS and Wits disabled Turnitin's AI detector in 2025-26, …
South Africa's Home Affairs upgraded its facial-recognition ID verification system used by SASSA, Treasury and banks, cutting failure rates from up to …
Sonke Gender Justice's One Man Can campaign mobilises South African men and boys through workshops and community action against gender-based violence. A …
JICA and South Africa's AIDC gave eight auto-parts suppliers years of on-site Kaizen coaching. By 2018, labour productivity had more than doubled, …
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