Statistics Sierra Leone and the GRID3 partnership use machine-learning building-footprint detection on satellite imagery to map population at 1-hectare resolution, powering 223 …
A solar-powered tablet game teaches literacy and numeracy to out-of-school children in conflict-affected Sudan. A 2020 peer-reviewed study found significantly greater maths/literacy …
Kassala, Sudan
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 2%80/100
Piloted in 1997 at Philippine General Hospital in Manila, Women and Children Protection Units integrate medical, forensic, psychosocial, legal and police services …
Manila, Philippines
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 32%78/100
Since 1977, icddr,b's family planning programme in Matlab, Bangladesh has been rigorously studied, cutting fertility ~25% — but 35-year follow-up finds no …
Matlab, Bangladesh
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 27%76/100
Since 2017, Bloomberg Philanthropies and two Harvard schools have run a nine-month executive-education and peer-learning programme for sitting mayors, reaching 447 mayors …
Cambridge, United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 27%76/100
A randomised evaluation of TechnoServe's classroom training, coaching and mentoring for 806 women-owned firms across five Ugandan towns found 22% higher revenue …
Kampala, Uganda
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 27%76/100
Malawi's first tech hub, mHub, delivers the UNDP-backed Growth Accelerator Challenge: six funding rounds since 2018 have co-financed 62 enterprises with over …
Lilongwe, Malawi
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 27%76/100
Founded in 2008 in Accra by the Meltwater Foundation, MEST combines a fully funded one-year tech-entrepreneur programme with seed capital and incubation; …
Accra, Ghana
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 39%76/100
Zimbabwean NGO Kubatana built a free, do-it-yourself interactive voice response toolkit so any community group could run phone-based information services for non-literate …
MEDA's GROW project gave Amplio's audio-only 'Talking Book' devices, designed with non-literate users, to 662 women's farming groups in Ghana's Upper West …
Wa, Ghana
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 39%76/100
ITU-led Smart Island programme brought VSAT/solar-powered connectivity and digital-skills training to six villages on Vanuatu's Malekula island, training over 1,000 residents in …
Lakatoro, Vanuatu
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 39%76/100