An EU LIFE-funded programme (2019-2025) converting irrigated Lisbon parkland into rain-fed meadows and planting over 107,000 trees and shrubs, cutting irrigation water …
Since 2008, Tajik villages in the Khatlon mountains have run markhor conservancies funded by regulated trophy-hunting permits, helping the national markhor population …
Kulob, Tajikistan
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 70%40/100
Ukraine's government-run Mriia platform automates school administration and is piloting an AI test-generator for teachers; by 2025 it reached 2,800+ schools (1 …
Cape Town incubator Injini, backed by Coefficient Giving, is running an 8-month venture-builder taking 12 teams from nine Southern African countries through …
Sri Lanka's 2,000-year-old cascaded tank irrigation network, an FAO-designated agricultural heritage system since 2017, is being restored under a GEF/UNEP-backed programme after …
Researchers at Palestine's Arab American University, backed by Warwick's Education Fund, built a Vision Transformer recognising Palestinian Sign Language gestures for 41 …
Seattle Public Utilities rebuilt a residential block (completed 2001) with vegetated swales instead of piped drainage. Two years of SPU/EPA-documented monitoring found …
Seattle, United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 57%40/100
Neochetina weevils released from 1995 cut Lake Victoria's 20,000-hectare water hyacinth mat to about 500 hectares by 2000, freeing Uganda's Owen Falls …
Jinja, Uganda
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 83%40/100
Stellenbosch University's Policy Innovation Lab built a WhatsApp chatbot using ChatGPT so citizens can report service failures like broken water pipes, mapping …
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 57%40/100
Since 2002, IWVA has treated secondary wastewater effluent through ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis at Torreele, infiltrating up to 2.5 million m3/year into …
Since 2024, SignAvatar's TransportSign has worked with Railways of Serbia to turn station announcements into real-time AI sign-language avatars at Belgrade's Centre …
Belgrade, Serbia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 57%40/100
A World Bank- and government-financed rehabilitation of Boyukshor Lake near Baku dredged 2.8 million m³ of contaminated sludge and cut bottom-sediment pollution …
Baku, Azerbaijan
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 57%40/100
Nicaragua's RISEMP paid 138 cattle ranchers across 4,560 ha in Matiguás–Río Blanco (2003–2008) for silvopastoral land-use change, scored on a biodiversity/carbon index; …
Matiguás, Nicaragua
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 57%40/100
Since 2022, Planète Urgence, Orange and Cameroonian communities have restored 100+ hectares of Wouri-estuary mangrove near Douala — including a 3-ha Bojongo …
Since 2018 Tanzania's TCRA has required SIM cards to be biometrically checked against the NIDA national ID database instead of resubmitted paperwork. …
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 57%40/100
A 40-farm Irish pilot paid farmers for measured pollinator-habitat quality via a 19-action scorecard rather than fixed prescriptions; median farm scores rose …