12 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: South Africa (56)
Since 1982, Durban's eThekwini Municipality has protected a statutory open-space network now covering roughly 940 km2 of the city; a 2017 World …
In June 2025 the University of Cape Town's Senate endorsed an AI in Education Framework, and from 1 October 2025 UCT discontinued …
Since 2003, Eskom has partnered with BirdLife South Africa and the Middelpunt Wetland Trust to protect the wetlands feeding its Ingula Pumped-Storage …
SARB researchers rigorously tested machine-learning models (LASSO, XGBoost, neural networks) against the bank's own published inflation forecasts: ML modestly beat SARB's forecast …
South African platform for 2M+ secondary students with free government-distributed maths/science textbooks and AI-adaptive practice. Dell Foundation: 17,000 Gauteng pupils. JumpStart quasi-experiment …
UCT's technology-transfer office has spun out 40 companies over 20 years, built spin-off equity worth R100M+ and now manages 2,500 research contracts …
The University of Johannesburg upgraded its MoUJi chatbot with LLM technology so students can check admission scores, register and get financial-aid help …
A University of Cape Town-led team fine-tuned open-source speech-recognition models to automatically score early-grade oral reading fluency in isiXhosa, using 14,971 recordings …
A 10-day AGCCI bootcamp at Motheo TVET College, Bloemfontein (29 June-9 July 2026) trained 40 young women from Motheo TVET and Free …
Since 2018 the Greater Cape Town Water Fund has cleared 46,000+ hectares of invasive alien vegetation, recovering 15.2 billion litres of water …
National voluntary programme where private and communal landowners receive rates exemptions and technical support in exchange for conservation commitments; has secured >1.5 …
City of Cape Town and TNC fund invasive alien tree clearance since 2018. By Oct 2023: 46,000+ ha cleared across 7 mountain …
A World Bank RCT split 852 Cape Town entrepreneurs into marketing-skills, finance-skills and control groups over a 10-week programme. Marketing training raised …
Cape Town co-funds a youth skills pipeline into its BPO sector (CapeBPO incubator, launched April 2025), which grew from ~45,400 to ~100,000 …
South African NGO Speaking Books embeds sound chips in illustrated 16-page books that narrate health information aloud in a reader's own language, …
A 2014 community-based co-design study led by Delft University of Technology and the University of the Western Cape with Cape Town's Deaf …
South Africa's 2022 Code widens workplace harassment protections under the Employment Equity Act, aligning with ILO Convention 190, ratified 2021. Enforcement runs …
Stellenbosch University's tech-transfer office has spun out ~30 companies since 1998; in 2023 the SU Group posted a combined R422 million turnover …
A US$3.5m GEF project (2012–2018) trained over 5,000 people in integrated fire management across four Western Cape communities in South Africa's fire-dependent …
A case study evaluated the Wysa wellbeing chatbot, adopted by 4,871 users (18.73% adoption rate) at the University of the Western Cape …
South Africa's national public works programme paying community workers to rehabilitate degraded wetlands through invasive alien plant removal, bio-engineering and re-vegetation; 1,300+ …
Cape Town's Open Data Portal, live since January 2015 and paired with free public-library access, publishes municipal datasets for reuse — but …
South Africa's DPSA launched a Meta Llama-powered chatbot in August 2026 giving public servants instant, multilingual access to policy circulars — built …
South Africa's Kruger to Canyons Biosphere launched a R125m ($7m) catchment investment programme in 2023, clearing 1,500+ ha of invasive alien plants …
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