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What works in Colombo

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8
evaluated practices
59/100
average quality score
12%
strong evidence, of 8 assessed
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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 Colombo

SIYB Business Training for Women Entrepreneurs — Colombo & Kandy's Two-Track Randomised Trial tested the ILO's SIYB programme across 10 divisions of greater Colombo, randomising 1,256 women into control, training-only, and training-plus-cash-grant groups. For existing subsistence-enterprise owners in Colombo, training alone produced no measurable effect on profits, sales or capital stock, while training combined with a cash grant generated a large profit increase that lasted eight months before disappearing by the two-year follow-up. For women interested in starting a business, training led to earlier business entry and higher profitability among new entrants, though overall business ownership rates did not rise by the final round. The evidence demonstrates business-training impacts in greater Colombo but does not quantify other dimensions of the city's economy or development.

Drawn from: SIYB Business Training for Women Entrepreneurs — Colombo & Kandy's Two-Track Randomised Trial · University Business Linkage (UBL) Cells — Sri Lanka's AHEAD Technology-Transfer Network · 25% Women's Quota in Local Government Elections · Nenasala Telecentre Network · Colombo's Urban Wetlands — Avoided-Cost Flood Mitigation for a Ramsar Wetland City (Sri Lanka) · Colombo Urban Regeneration Project — Sri Lanka's Contested High-Rise Resettlement Programme · AI Chatbot for the '1966' Vocational Education Hotline — Sri Lanka's Trilingual Guidance Assistant for School Leavers · AI Clubs / Artificial Intelligence Student Societies — Sri Lanka's 100-school national AI-literacy pilot

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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers

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Strengths

Evaluation evidence +64 pts 100 here · 36 average

Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +49 pts 100 here · 51 average

Teacher capability & pedagogy +27 pts 67 here · 39 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

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

Inclusiveness / equity +15 pts 56 here · 41 average

Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +14 pts 67 here · 53 average

Weaknesses

Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced -9 pts 0 here · 9 average

Multi-stakeholder collaboration -12 pts 67 here · 78 average

Transparency, ethics & data protection -17 pts 33 here · 50 average

Transparency, fairness & accountability -20 pts 33 here · 54 average

Equity & inclusion -21 pts 33 here · 54 average

Sustainability (ongoing) -27 pts 53 here · 80 average

Evidence of learning impact -30 pts 0 here · 30 average

Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -35 pts 0 here · 35 average

Efficiency -52 pts 0 here · 52 average

Gender-mainstreaming embedding -90 pts 0 here · 90 average

{# Score profile vs peers (KAN-364, UX2.3): every dimension as place-vs-corpus bars — the full picture behind the strengths/weaknesses shortlists above. #}

Score profile vs peers

Evaluation evidence
100 · 36
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control
100 · 51
Teacher capability & pedagogy
67 · 39
Documented learning
100 · 73
Demonstrated reach
100 · 75
Curator validation
100 · 75
Effectiveness
100 · 81
Impact on gender equality
100 · 83
Evaluated outcomes
100 · 84
Inclusiveness / equity
56 · 41
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced
67 · 53
Achievement / evidence
100 · 93
Evidence of impact / measured public value
67 · 60
Transferability / replicability
60 · 59
Scalability & sustainability
67 · 66
Governance, capability & sustainability
67 · 66
Innovation level
57 · 64
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced
0 · 9
Multi-stakeholder collaboration
67 · 78
Transparency, ethics & data protection
33 · 50
Transparency, fairness & accountability
33 · 54
Equity & inclusion
33 · 54
Sustainability (ongoing)
53 · 80
Evidence of learning impact
0 · 30
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced
0 · 35
Efficiency
0 · 52
Gender-mainstreaming embedding
0 · 90

Coloured bar: Colombo. 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

SIYB Business Training for Women Entrepreneurs — Colombo & Kandy's Two-Track Randomised Trial · 76

University Business Linkage (UBL) Cells — Sri Lanka's AHEAD Technology-Transfer Network · 76

25% Women's Quota in Local Government Elections · 74

Nenasala Telecentre Network · 72

Colombo's Urban Wetlands — Avoided-Cost Flood Mitigation for a Ramsar Wetland City (Sri Lanka) · 47

Colombo Urban Regeneration Project — Sri Lanka's Contested High-Rise Resettlement Programme · 43

AI Chatbot for the '1966' Vocational Education Hotline — Sri Lanka's Trilingual Guidance Assistant for School Leavers · 40

AI Clubs / Artificial Intelligence Student Societies — Sri Lanka's 100-school national AI-literacy pilot · 40

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.

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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
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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
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Digital Green — Video-Mediated Agricultural Extension · fit 100/100

  • Backed by strong evidence
  • Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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Kartu Prakerja – National Digital Skills and Financial Inclusion Programme · fit 100/100

  • Backed by strong evidence
  • Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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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
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Sweden's Barnahus (Children's House) — Multidisciplinary One-Stop Centres for Child Victims of Sexual Abuse and Violence · fit 90/100

  • Rated highly transferable
  • Backed by strong evidence
  • Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 90/100

  • Rated highly transferable
  • Backed by strong evidence
  • Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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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

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