What works in Apia
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Evidence snapshot for Apia
Pacific Girls in ICT Day — Samoa's National AI Literacy, Cybersecurity and STEM Outreach Programme, Apia is an annual ITU-backed programme run in Apia by the Office of the Regulator and Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, aimed at closing the gender gap in STEM and ICT careers. The 2024 event brought together 54 girls and 9 boys, and the 2025 tenth-anniversary edition expanded to 16 schools across Savai'i and Upolu, with curriculum covering cybersecurity, cyberbullying and artificial intelligence. Because more girls have been passing STEM exams in Samoa, the programme is being expanded toward a 'Youth in ICT' format that also includes boys. The evidence is limited to attendance figures and programme scope; it does not quantify learning outcomes or career pathway impacts.
Drawn from: Constitutional Reserved-Seats Quota for Women in Parliament · Impact-Based Forecasting for Cyclones and Coastal Flooding — Samoa's AI-Assisted Early Warning System · Pacific Girls in ICT Day — Samoa's National AI Literacy, Cybersecurity and STEM Outreach Programme, Apia · Digitally Connected and Resilient Samoa Project · Samoa Victim Support Group — National 24-Hour Helpline, Shelter and Perpetrator Programme · Small Business Development Project — Samoa's Loan-Guarantee and Business-Advisory Scheme for Micro and Small Enterprises · COL–NUS AI Helpdesk Cuts Support Wait Times for Samoa's Online Students · Vaisigano River Integrated Flood Management — Ecosystem-Based Catchment Resilience (Samoa)
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +52 pts 100 here · 48 average
Inclusiveness / equity +24 pts 67 here · 43 average
Evaluated outcomes +21 pts 100 here · 79 average
Equity & inclusion +17 pts 67 here · 50 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy +13 pts 50 here · 37 average
Achievement / evidence +12 pts 100 here · 88 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value +9 pts 67 here · 57 average
Sustainability +8 pts 87 here · 78 average
Weaknesses
Transferability / replicability -10 pts 50 here · 60 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -14 pts 33 here · 47 average
Effectiveness -18 pts 50 here · 68 average
Innovation level -18 pts 44 here · 62 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -20 pts 33 here · 54 average
Impact on gender equality -21 pts 50 here · 71 average
Curator validation -23 pts 50 here · 73 average
Demonstrated reach -26 pts 50 here · 76 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -28 pts 0 here · 28 average
Efficiency -33 pts 0 here · 33 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding -39 pts 50 here · 89 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -48 pts 0 here · 48 average
Evaluation evidence -49 pts 0 here · 49 average
Documented learning -74 pts 0 here · 74 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Apia. 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
Constitutional Reserved-Seats Quota for Women in Parliament · 70
Digitally Connected and Resilient Samoa Project · 52
Samoa Victim Support Group — National 24-Hour Helpline, Shelter and Perpetrator Programme · 48
COL–NUS AI Helpdesk Cuts Support Wait Times for Samoa's Online Students · 47
Vaisigano River Integrated Flood Management — Ecosystem-Based Catchment Resilience (Samoa) · 33
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
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Kartu Prakerja – National Digital Skills and Financial Inclusion Programme · fit 100/100
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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
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