12 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: South Africa (81)
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 …
South Africa's ten-year, six-pillar plan to end gender-based violence and femicide, backed by roughly R21 billion in funding. Its 2025 mid-term review …
Stellenbosch University's tech-transfer office has spun out ~30 companies since 1998; in 2023 the SU Group posted a combined R422 million turnover …
Since 2004, South Africa has replanted spekboom across ~800,000 hectares of degraded Karoo rangeland; a 2024 World Bank outcome bond and 2026 …
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 …
Stellenbosch declined a single institution-wide generative-AI rule. Lecturers decide per module whether AI is prohibited, restricted, allowed, encouraged or required, and explain …
Cape Town incubator Injini, backed by Coefficient Giving, is running an 8-month venture-builder taking 12 teams from nine Southern African countries through …
Stellenbosch University's Policy Innovation Lab built a WhatsApp chatbot using ChatGPT so citizens can report service failures like broken water pipes, mapping …
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 …
Pretoria accounting lecturers built a GPT-4 web tool giving essay-question feedback engineered around Nicol & Macfarlane-Dick's principles. A study of 75 scripts …
The University of the Free State grew a COVID-era chatbot into KovsieChat, an AI assistant for admissions, registration and financial-aid queries at …
A five-month study of Mangosuthu University of Technology's AI-assisted student-support chatbot analysed 1,495 admissions, registration and IT-support interactions, finding 96.8% first-query resolution …
Since 2001, a private consortium (majority Veolia/Vivendi) has run a 47.5 ML/day plant reclaiming Durban's wastewater to near-potable industrial standard under a …
Two Cape Town graduates built FoondaMate, a free WhatsApp/Messenger study chatbot for students with limited or costly internet. By mid-2022 it reached …
South Africa's remote-work visa, gazetted in May 2024 after a two-year delay, had drawn only 24 approved visas ten months later, the …
Greening Soweto planted 200,000 trees by 2010 to redress apartheid-era tree-cover inequality. A 2018 independent field survey found only 43% survived — …
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