What works in Abidjan
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Evidence snapshot for Abidjan
Abidjan has emerged as a hub for digital skills and technology training in West Africa. The Orange Digital Center Côte d'Ivoire, located in Abidjan's Plateau district and opened in October 2021, has trained over 3,500 people and supported 92 startups through its combined coding school, FabLab, startup accelerator and investment fund. Additionally, Abidjan hosted a September 2025 workshop with 40+ participants that initiated work on a national AI competency framework for teachers across Côte d'Ivoire as part of the UNESCO & KIX Africa 21 programme.
Drawn from: Orange Digital Center Côte d'Ivoire · Côte d'Ivoire 2019 Family Code Reform — Equal Parental Authority, Inheritance and Minimum Marriage Age · AI and Robotics Youth Training Programme — ITU, Google and will.i.am's Pilot in Côte d'Ivoire · UNESCO & KIX Africa 21 -- National AI Competency Frameworks for Teachers in Francophone Africa · EMY 101 — Côte d'Ivoire's AI Chatbot for WhatsApp- and Messenger-Based Public Service Access · PIETP — Côte d'Ivoire's Industry Pact Giving 75 Tech Startups a Formal Role in AI, Data & Cybersecurity Curricula
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +64 pts 100 here · 36 average
Documented learning +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Demonstrated reach +25 pts 100 here · 75 average
Curator validation +25 pts 100 here · 75 average
Sustainability +20 pts 100 here · 80 average
Effectiveness +19 pts 100 here · 81 average
Impact on gender equality +17 pts 100 here · 83 average
Evaluated outcomes +16 pts 100 here · 84 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +10 pts 100 here · 90 average
Weaknesses
Transferability / replicability -9 pts 50 here · 59 average
Scalability & sustainability -16 pts 50 here · 66 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -20 pts 33 here · 54 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -28 pts 22 here · 50 average
Evidence of learning impact -30 pts 0 here · 30 average
Governance, capability & sustainability -33 pts 33 here · 66 average
Efficiency -52 pts 0 here · 52 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value -60 pts 0 here · 60 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Abidjan. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Orange Digital Center Côte d'Ivoire · 92
AI and Robotics Youth Training Programme — ITU, Google and will.i.am's Pilot in Côte d'Ivoire · 47
UNESCO & KIX Africa 21 -- National AI Competency Frameworks for Teachers in Francophone Africa · 33
EMY 101 — Côte d'Ivoire's AI Chatbot for WhatsApp- and Messenger-Based Public Service Access · 33
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization Programme — Titling Land in Women's Names · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Stadtidee Aarau — Switzerland's First City-Wide Participatory Budget Using the Method of Equal Shares · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Abolition of Chhaupadi — Ending Menstrual Exile Huts in Nepal's Far- and Mid-Western Districts · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Guyana's One-Third Gender Candidate Quota — Two Decades of Sustained Representation · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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