A World Bank/ACDI-VOCA RCT trained 197 experienced Ethiopian businesswomen who then mentored 1,128 less-experienced peers. Over three years, mentor training raised profits …
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 50%67/100
Since 2017, Lithuania's Startup Visa has let non-EU tech founders obtain a fast-track residence permit after an independent panel of accelerators, VCs …
Vilnius, Lithuania
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 32%67/100
Austin's Development Services Department has run AI PreCheck, built with Archistar, since a 2024 pilot; across about 190 residential submissions the tool …
Austin, United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 32%67/100
Iceland's Ísland.is portal runs Askur, an AI chatbot answering citizen queries around the clock from vetted agency content. Government figures show ~10,000 …
Reykjavík, Iceland
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 50%67/100
Burkinabé and Italian research teams installed 19 calibrated Clarity PM2.5 sensors across Ouagadougou, Bobo-Dioulasso and Koudougou, recording a one-year average of 46.7 …
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 50%67/100
British University Vietnam piloted the AI Assessment Scale, a 5-level framework for permitted GenAI use in coursework; the peer-reviewed evaluation reported a …
Hanoi, Vietnam
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 32%67/100
Since August 2025 the VA has piloted an AI tool that pre-fills disability-benefit questionnaires from veterans' medical records; average processing time fell …
Washington, D.C., United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 50%67/100
A three-NGO consortium trains and mentors microentrepreneurs with disabilities, backed by an in-kind growth-kit and procurement links. 2,467 reached (84% disabled), self-reported …
Meru, Kenya
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 50%67/100
A joint UN–World Bank programme rebuilt housing across 16 Port-au-Prince neighbourhoods and closed 6 displacement camps after the 2010 earthquake, repairing 1,200+ …
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Good practice
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 14%67/100
A 13-week controlled study at four Hungarian universities found a ChatGPT-based adaptive tutor using Bayesian Knowledge Tracing nearly doubled programming gains for …
India's CPGRAMS grievance portal added an AI/ML dashboard built with IIT Kanpur for complaint categorisation, spam detection and root-cause analysis, cutting central-ministry …
New Delhi, India
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 50%67/100
Facing chronically low local revenue, Kampala's KCCA combined a World Bank-funded GIS property survey with eCitie, a self-built online/mobile-money tax platform; reviews …
Kampala, Uganda
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 32%67/100
A truck-mounted digital X-ray unit using Delft Imaging's CAD4TB AI software screened 43% of Daru Island's population for tuberculosis, finding 69 confirmed …
Daru, Papua New Guinea
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 14%67/100
A WhatsApp-based platform connecting up to 13 million South Africans to grants, COVID-19 testing and municipal services became a landmark antitrust case …
Johannesburg, South Africa
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 50%67/100
Serbia's Innovation Fund co-finances SME contracts with accredited public research organisations up to RSD 800,000 per voucher (60% of cost); the Vouchers …
Belgrade, Serbia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 32%67/100
Samoa's national weather service now issues impact-based forecasts, not just hazard alerts, for cyclones, coastal flooding and storm surge, under a WMO/UNDRR/GFDRR …