What works in Accra
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Evidence snapshot for Accra
MEST Africa was founded in Accra in 2008 and has trained over 2,000 people, funded more than 90 startups, and launched 80+ software companies across Africa through its fully funded one-year tech-entrepreneurship programme. Esoko, an agritech company also founded in Accra in 2009, delivers mobile market-information services to over 2 million farmers across roughly ten African countries and has sustained operations for over 15 years through mixed donor and commercial funding. The evidence demonstrates Accra's role as a hub for African tech and agritech innovation, though the practices do not quantify Accra's broader economic or social outcomes beyond these two specific organisations.
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 · Year of Return & Beyond the Return — Ghana's Decade-Long Diaspora Homecoming Campaign · MEST Africa — Training, Seed Funding and Incubation for African Tech Entrepreneurs · Ghana's Financial Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities Directive — A Central Bank Mandates Accessible Banking · Nurse Mary (PROMPTS) — Ghana Health Service's AI Maternal & Newborn Health Messaging Platform · Ghana Digital Acceleration Project — Accessible-Technology Procurement for Persons with Disabilities
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Equity & inclusion +21 pts 71 here · 50 average
Demonstrated reach +12 pts 88 here · 76 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Weaknesses
Sustainability (ongoing) -8 pts 70 here · 78 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value -10 pts 47 here · 57 average
Documented learning -12 pts 62 here · 74 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -12 pts 42 here · 54 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -14 pts 24 here · 37 average
Governance, capability & sustainability -15 pts 48 here · 64 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -16 pts 11 here · 28 average
Achievement / evidence -21 pts 67 here · 88 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -26 pts 22 here · 48 average
Efficiency -33 pts 0 here · 33 average
Evaluated outcomes -46 pts 33 here · 79 average
Effectiveness -68 pts 0 here · 68 average
Impact on gender equality -71 pts 0 here · 71 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
Year of Return & Beyond the Return — Ghana's Decade-Long Diaspora Homecoming Campaign · 86
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
Ghana Digital Acceleration Project — Accessible-Technology Procurement for Persons with Disabilities · 72
Each number is the practice's overall 0–100 quality score against its catalogue's rubric. Know more
Recommended to adopt or replicate
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- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 6 other places
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