What works in Cox's Bazar
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Evidence snapshot for Cox's Bazar
Cox's Bazar hosts the world's largest refugee settlement, home to close to one million Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar from 2017 onward. UNFPA Women-Friendly Spaces has expanded its health and gender-based-violence services from 19 sites in 2018 to 55 by 2025, reaching over 330,000 women and girls, though monsoon flooding repeatedly cuts facility usage by around 60% and damages infrastructure. Machine-learning poverty-targeting pilots tested across 106,200 Cox's Bazar households found phone-metadata methods less accurate (AUC 0.61–0.72) than traditional proxy-means testing (AUC 0.78–0.85), and risked excluding the poorest households. Internet access was restored in August 2020 after a year-long blackout, re-enabling COVID-19 outreach and distance learning, though the evidence block does not quantify outcomes from that restoration.
Drawn from: UNFPA Women-Friendly Spaces for Rohingya Refugee Women - Cox's Bazar · MobileAid: Machine-Learning Poverty Targeting from Mobile-Phone Metadata · Restoring Internet Access to the Rohingya Refugee Camps of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +51 pts 100 here · 49 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +46 pts 100 here · 54 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value +43 pts 100 here · 57 average
Effectiveness +32 pts 100 here · 68 average
Impact on gender equality +29 pts 100 here · 71 average
Curator validation +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Transferability / replicability +23 pts 83 here · 60 average
Evaluated outcomes +21 pts 100 here · 79 average
Achievement / evidence +12 pts 100 here · 88 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Weaknesses
Sustainability -28 pts 50 here · 78 average
Scalability beyond pilot -29 pts 33 here · 62 average
Efficiency -33 pts 0 here · 33 average
Innovation level -42 pts 20 here · 62 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Cox's Bazar. 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
UNFPA Women-Friendly Spaces for Rohingya Refugee Women - Cox's Bazar · 89
MobileAid: Machine-Learning Poverty Targeting from Mobile-Phone Metadata · 73
Restoring Internet Access to the Rohingya Refugee Camps of Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh · 64
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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
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- Rated highly transferable
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- 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