What works in Dar es Salaam
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Evidence snapshot for Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam has been the site of two major community-based initiatives with documented impact. Ramani Huria's community-mapping programme trained 450 mappers to survey flood-prone informal settlements, ultimately mapping 29 wards, 1,254 km of waterways and 3,396 km of roads, reaching an estimated 2 million residents. A randomised trial of Kaizen management training in the city's garment sector found that by years 3–4, firms receiving both classroom training and consulting achieved 90% higher sales and 65% higher value added than control firms, though gains took years to materialise. Both initiatives document self-reported or experimental outcomes; the mapping programme's figures are from the implementers' official impact report, while the Kaizen trial involved randomised assignment and multi-year tracking.
Drawn from: Tai — Storytelling and Digital Technology for Inclusive Education · Shule Direct – National Digital Learning Platform for Tanzanian Secondary Schools · Ramani Huria — Community-Mapped Flood-Resilience Data for Dar es Salaam · Kaizen Management Training for Dar es Salaam's Garment Micro & Small Firms · Ramani Huria — Community Flood-Risk Mapping in Dar es Salaam · Tanzania e-IDSR — AI alert triage for national disease surveillance · Kalimani — AI-Powered Tanzanian Sign Language Learning App for Deaf Pupils · AGCCI 'Binti Dijitali' — UN Women's Coding, Robotics and AI Camps for Young Women in Dar es Salaam
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +51 pts 100 here · 49 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Inclusiveness / equity +18 pts 61 here · 43 average
Equity & inclusion +17 pts 67 here · 50 average
Evidence of learning impact +15 pts 42 here · 26 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy +13 pts 50 here · 37 average
Weaknesses
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Sustainability (ongoing) -16 pts 62 here · 78 average
Governance, capability & sustainability -19 pts 44 here · 64 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -20 pts 33 here · 54 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -28 pts 0 here · 28 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -30 pts 17 here · 47 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -48 pts 0 here · 48 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Dar es Salaam. 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
Tai — Storytelling and Digital Technology for Inclusive Education · 92
Shule Direct – National Digital Learning Platform for Tanzanian Secondary Schools · 92
Ramani Huria — Community-Mapped Flood-Resilience Data for Dar es Salaam · 86
Kaizen Management Training for Dar es Salaam's Garment Micro & Small Firms · 76
Ramani Huria — Community Flood-Risk Mapping in Dar es Salaam · 76
Tanzania e-IDSR — AI alert triage for national disease surveillance · 67
Kalimani — AI-Powered Tanzanian Sign Language Learning App for Deaf Pupils · 60
AGCCI 'Binti Dijitali' — UN Women's Coding, Robotics and AI Camps for Young Women in Dar es Salaam · 60
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
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- Backed by strong evidence
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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