Guatemala's Defensoría de la Mujer Indígena (DEMI, 1999) provides culturally-sensitive legal, social and psychological services to indigenous women across 13 regional offices …
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 59%59/100
The Luxembourg Women in Finance Charter (WIF Charter)is a commitment by signatory firms and representative bodies to achieve greater gender balance and …
Cascais Municipal Council (CMC) has defined sustainable development goals for Cascais 2030. Goal 5 centres on promoting gender equality. Through this goal, …
Since 2019, Portugal's Programa Regressar has given returning emigrants a 50% income-tax break for five years plus IEFP grants; applications hit 36,000+ …
A $30M World Bank IDA grant funded 526 matching grants and rural infrastructure for tourism and agribusiness MSMEs in Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan and …
San Salvador's metropolitan planning office (OPAMSS) won an IDB Cities Lab challenge and, with two universities and City Adapt, piloted low-cost green-infrastructure …
San Salvador, El Salvador
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 76%57/100
Barbados' 12-month remote-work visa, launched April 2020, drew 8,199 applications and 1,381 paid visas by 2023 (min. US$50,000 household income), earning at …
Bridgetown, Barbados
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 76%57/100
Pakistan's national applied-research council operates laboratory complexes across seven cities, patenting and leasing industrial processes to private companies — 96 processes leased …
Opened in 2019, the University of Zimbabwe's Innovation Hub has moved 40 enrolled researcher-innovators into 21 graduate start-ups and 15 registered business …
Harare, Zimbabwe
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 76%57/100
After Kenya's 2010 devolution, Makueni County built a six-tier participatory budgeting process from village to county level. By FY2016/17, World Bank data …
Since Ley 170-07 (2007), Dominican municipalities must decide part of their capital-investment budget through open community assemblies. Adoption spread from 59 municipalities …
Morocco's national in-situ upgrading, rehousing and resettlement programme cut the share of urban households living in slums from 8.2% to 4.5% between …
Casablanca, Morocco
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 76%57/100
North Macedonia's FITR fund grew from <$400k to >$18m by 2021, co-financing 800+ SME/start-up projects worth >€100m. Grantee Pixyle.ai turned an €80k …
Skopje, North Macedonia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 76%57/100
World Bank-financed KIIDP (2008-2021, $33.6M then $183.7M) gave 1.3M+ Kampala residents road access, beating its target -- but a drainage sub-project lost …