What works in Accra
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Quality scores are 0–100 rubric scores; “strong evidence” reflects study design; adoptions count documented replications elsewhere. Know more
Evidence snapshot for Accra
MEST Africa was founded in Accra in 2008 and has trained over 2,000 tech entrepreneurs, funded more than 90 startups, and launched over 80 software companies across Africa, with 60 fully sponsored places awarded annually from over 6,000 applicants. Nurse Mary (PROMPTS) has reached 36,500 mothers across 435 Greater Accra facilities through an AI-triaged SMS service for maternal and newborn health guidance. The evidence demonstrates Accra's role as a hub for digital-skills and health-tech innovation, though specific impact metrics for Accra alone (rather than Africa-wide or Greater Accra region) are not quantified in these practices.
Drawn from: Esoko: Mobile Market Information for Smallholder Farmers · GIFEC Digital Training Centres – National ICT Skills Programme (Ghana) · Rori — an AI math tutor on WhatsApp in Ghana · MEST Africa — Training, Seed Funding and Incubation for African Tech Entrepreneurs · Nurse Mary (PROMPTS) — Ghana Health Service's AI Maternal & Newborn Health Messaging Platform · Girls-in-ICT Initiative · Ghana Card De-Duplication — Merging SSNIT's Pension Biometrics Into a Single National Identity Register · MEST Africa — Pan-African Tech Entrepreneur Training & Seed Fund
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +31 pts 67 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
Transparency, ethics & data protection +17 pts 67 here · 50 average
Equity & inclusion +13 pts 67 here · 54 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +10 pts 100 here · 90 average
Weaknesses
Governance, capability & sustainability -8 pts 58 here · 66 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value -8 pts 52 here · 60 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -12 pts 67 here · 78 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -12 pts 42 here · 54 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -23 pts 17 here · 39 average
Efficiency -52 pts 0 here · 52 average
Effectiveness -81 pts 0 here · 81 average
Impact on gender equality -83 pts 0 here · 83 average
Evaluated outcomes -84 pts 0 here · 84 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Accra. 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
Esoko: Mobile Market Information for Smallholder Farmers · 92
GIFEC Digital Training Centres – National ICT Skills Programme (Ghana) · 88
Rori — an AI math tutor on WhatsApp in Ghana · 87
MEST Africa — Training, Seed Funding and Incubation for African Tech Entrepreneurs · 76
Nurse Mary (PROMPTS) — Ghana Health Service's AI Maternal & Newborn Health Messaging Platform · 73
MEST Africa — Pan-African Tech Entrepreneur Training & Seed Fund · 62
Each number is the practice's overall 0–100 quality score against its catalogue's rubric. Know more
Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 100/100
- 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
Fit estimates how well a practice matches this place, 0 (poor) to 100 (excellent); the list is ordered to favour practices that address this place's gaps. Know more