What works in Dar es Salaam
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Evidence snapshot for Dar es Salaam
Ramani Huria has trained 450 community mappers in Dar es Salaam to survey flood-prone informal settlements, mapping 29 wards, 1,254 km of waterways, and 3,396 km of roads since 2015, with the resulting data reaching an estimated 2 million residents. The programme established 10 community-run disaster-prevention teams and incorporated mapping data into Dar es Salaam's official Master Plan. Buni Innovation Hub, based in Dar es Salaam, operates as Tanzania's government-anchored startup incubation ecosystem since 2011, though independent evidence on jobs or capital created by graduate startups remains limited.
Drawn from: Shule Direct – National Digital Learning Platform for Tanzanian Secondary Schools · Ramani Huria — Community-Mapped Flood-Resilience Data for Dar es Salaam · Tanzania e-IDSR — AI alert triage for national disease surveillance · Buni Innovation Hub & DTBi — Tanzania's Government-Anchored Startup Incubation Ecosystem · Generative AI as a Teaching Partner for Personalised Learning Paths — Dar es Salaam and Dodoma, Tanzania · UDEC Business Training for PRIDE Tanzania Microfinance Clients — Dar es Salaam's Randomised Trial and Its Local Follow-Up
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +64 pts 100 here · 36 average
Evidence of learning impact +37 pts 67 here · 30 average
Documented learning +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy +27 pts 67 here · 40 average
Inclusiveness / equity +26 pts 67 here · 41 average
Demonstrated reach +25 pts 100 here · 75 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +13 pts 67 here · 54 average
Weaknesses
Transferability / demonstrated replication -9 pts 50 here · 59 average
Sustainability (ongoing) -13 pts 67 here · 80 average
Scalability beyond pilot -19 pts 47 here · 66 average
Equity & inclusion -21 pts 33 here · 54 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -50 pts 0 here · 50 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
Shule Direct – National Digital Learning Platform for Tanzanian Secondary Schools · 92
Ramani Huria — Community-Mapped Flood-Resilience Data for Dar es Salaam · 86
Tanzania e-IDSR — AI alert triage for national disease surveillance · 67
Buni Innovation Hub & DTBi — Tanzania's Government-Anchored Startup Incubation Ecosystem · 48
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.
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
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
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
Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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
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