Rotterdam's Connecting Delta Cities network paired Dutch flood-adaptation expertise with Ho Chi Minh City's government from 2011, producing a joint climate-risk atlas …
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 65%62/100
Since 1983, the University of Barcelona's technology-transfer foundation has run patenting, licensing and spin-off creation; in 2022 alone it managed 819 research-transfer …
Barcelona, Spain
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 65%62/100
Honduras' CoST-backed SISOCS portal grew from 13 disclosed infrastructure projects in 2014 to 2,038 projects worth US$1.1bn by 2021, lifting mandated data …
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 65%62/100
Guyana's government-funded GOAL programme has awarded more than 39,000 free scholarships since 2021 — from vocational certificates to PhDs, including dedicated oil, …
Since 2019, Georgia and the Asian Development Bank have run a $135m participatory planning programme — a 172-stakeholder national visioning exercise plus …
Tbilisi, Georgia
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 65%62/100
A 2013–2017 UK Aid-funded programme combined $2.5m drainage works, waste management and livelihoods support across 10 flood-prone Dakar suburbs; a controlled before-after …
Dakar, Senegal
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 65%62/100
Since 2014, Albania's NGO-run Open Data Albania has published treasury transactions for 1,600+ public institutions dating to 2012, arming journalists and courts …
Tirana, Albania
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 65%62/100
Seoul's 2012 ordinance created city-certified 'sharing organisations', growing from 37 in 2013 to 92 by 2015. Car-sharing membership rose over 10-fold in …
Seoul, South Korea
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 65%62/100
Since 2019, Technip Energies has run a structured technology-transfer program with three Baku universities, training roughly 50-60 final-year engineering students a year …
Baku, Azerbaijan
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 65%62/100
Since 2017, Sulaymaniyah-based Five One Labs has run 11 incubator cohorts graduating 130 startups and over 1,000 entrepreneurs across Iraqi Kurdistan, awarding …
Sulaymaniyah, Iraq
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 65%62/100
Belgrade's CEUS and city Environmental Protection Secretariat built the Western Balkans' first Urban Living Lab, ratifying a 60-member, 35-institution Partnership for Urban …
Belgrade, Serbia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 65%62/100
Rio de Janeiro's flagship in-situ favela-upgrading programme (1994–2008) delivered streets, drainage and services without removing residents; a peer-reviewed evaluation found service-access gains …
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 65%62/100
Running from 2008 to 2015, Bangladesh's UPPR programme funded community-led settlement improvements and livelihood support across 23 towns and cities, reaching an …
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 65%62/100
A randomised trial added entrepreneurship training to 239 FINCA Peru village banks (4,591 mostly female clients) in Lima and Ayacucho. Short-term sales …
Lima, Peru
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 65%62/100
Slovakia's SIEA gave SMEs €1,000–€5,000 vouchers for creative-industry services. A matched study of 72 supported firms found sales grew 2.64x and assets …
Bratislava, Slovakia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 65%62/100
Taiwan's ITRI, a non-profit applied-research institute founded in 1973, transferred RCA semiconductor technology into two direct spin-offs — UMC (1980) and TSMC …