What works in Bissau
All catalogues · Guinea-Bissau profile
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Evidence snapshot for Bissau
Bissau's digital and innovation ecosystem shows mixed evidence of capacity-building infrastructure but uneven outcomes. InnovaLab GW, the city's first innovation accelerator, has operated continuously since 2015–16 and reported creating 200+ jobs and helping launch 20+ startups—self-reported figures not independently audited—making it notable for sustainability in a market considered too small for venture investment. Orange Digital Center Guinea-Bissau, which opened in mid-2024, adds coding, fabrication, and start-up support infrastructure, though no trainee counts or placement data have yet been published. Political representation remains a constraint: Guinea-Bissau's 2018 Parity Law mandated 36% women on candidate lists but women's parliamentary representation fell from 13.7% (2019) to 9.8% (2023), illustrating how quotas without enforcement mechanisms fail to shift outcomes.
Drawn from: InnovaLab GW — Guinea-Bissau's Pioneer Start-up Incubator · 2018 Parity Law and Its Unmet 36% Quota — Guinea-Bissau · Orange Digital Center Guinea-Bissau
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Curator validation +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Evaluated outcomes +21 pts 100 here · 79 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Evidence of impact / measured results +9 pts 67 here · 57 average
Weaknesses
Innovation level -9 pts 53 here · 62 average
Inclusiveness / equity -9 pts 33 here · 43 average
Sustainability -23 pts 56 here · 78 average
Transferability / replicability -27 pts 33 here · 60 average
Scalability -29 pts 33 here · 62 average
Efficiency -33 pts 0 here · 33 average
Evaluation evidence -49 pts 0 here · 49 average
Effectiveness -68 pts 0 here · 68 average
Impact on gender equality -71 pts 0 here · 71 average
Documented learning -74 pts 0 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach -76 pts 0 here · 76 average
Achievement / evidence -88 pts 0 here · 88 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Bissau. 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
InnovaLab GW — Guinea-Bissau's Pioneer Start-up Incubator · 52
2018 Parity Law and Its Unmet 36% Quota — Guinea-Bissau · 37
Orange Digital Center Guinea-Bissau · 28
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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
Already adopted in 3 other places
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 4 other places
Karya — Fair-Wage AI Data-Work Platform Bringing Digital Income to Rural India · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
safe+natal — Comadrona-Designed Smartphone Checklist for Maternal Risk Screening in Rural Guatemala · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Digital Green — Video-Mediated Agricultural Extension · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Kartu Prakerja – National Digital Skills and Financial Inclusion Programme · fit 100/100
- 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
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