What works in Gaborone
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Evidence snapshot for Gaborone
Gaborone hosts Botswana's first government-backed science and technology park, which manages 109 tenant companies and an incubator portfolio of 60 start-ups, though a World Bank review found only an estimated 10–20 of roughly 1,000 tech-adjacent Botswana companies are investment-ready. The city's Self-Help Housing Agency scheme has allocated serviced plots to low-income households since 1973, but two independent evaluations found the programme unsuccessful at sustaining low-income housing due to gentrification—original allottees increasingly sell plots to middle-income buyers, displacing the target population. Gaborone joined six other African cities in hosting GirlCode's 2025 Pan-African Hackathon on AI, fintech and cybersecurity for young women, though no independently verified data on participant outcomes has been published.
Drawn from: Botswana Innovation Hub — Gaborone's Government-Backed Science & Technology Park · Botswana's Self-Help Housing Agency (SHHA) — A Cautionary Tale in Site-and-Service Housing · GirlCode Pan-African Hackathon — AI, FinTech and Cybersecurity Track Reaches Gaborone · Botswana Domestic Violence Act 2008 — First Explicit Legislation Against Domestic Violence · Safer City — Botswana's Nationwide AI-Enabled Police Camera Network
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Curator validation +25 pts 100 here · 75 average
Equity & inclusion +13 pts 67 here · 54 average
Inclusiveness / equity +9 pts 50 here · 41 average
Weaknesses
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -12 pts 67 here · 78 average
Sustainability -13 pts 67 here · 80 average
Innovation -14 pts 50 here · 64 average
Evidence of impact / measured results -16 pts 44 here · 60 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -17 pts 33 here · 50 average
Transferability / replicability -18 pts 42 here · 59 average
Scalability -24 pts 42 here · 66 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -39 pts 0 here · 39 average
Efficiency -52 pts 0 here · 52 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -54 pts 0 here · 54 average
Governance, capability & sustainability -66 pts 0 here · 66 average
Effectiveness -81 pts 0 here · 81 average
Impact on gender equality -83 pts 0 here · 83 average
Evaluated outcomes -84 pts 0 here · 84 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding -90 pts 0 here · 90 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Gaborone. 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
Botswana Innovation Hub — Gaborone's Government-Backed Science & Technology Park · 67
Botswana's Self-Help Housing Agency (SHHA) — A Cautionary Tale in Site-and-Service Housing · 43
GirlCode Pan-African Hackathon — AI, FinTech and Cybersecurity Track Reaches Gaborone · 40
Botswana Domestic Violence Act 2008 — First Explicit Legislation Against Domestic Violence · 37
Safer City — Botswana's Nationwide AI-Enabled Police Camera Network · 7
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