What works in Ghent
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Evidence snapshot for Ghent
Ghent has pursued multiple citizen-centered urban transitions since 2012, including Leefstraat (Living Streets), which has involved 25+ residential streets annually and 56 distinct street experiments co-created cumulatively, and a 2016 commons mapping exercise that identified 500+ grassroots initiatives across food, energy, digital infrastructure and care sectors. The city implemented a major circulation plan in April 2017 that reduced through-traffic by restricting car movement between six city sectors, achieving improvements in cycling uptake, car-use reduction, and resident safety. A digital inclusion programme reached 400 families living in poverty with computers and internet access to reduce the digital divide, though evidence on most of these initiatives remains largely qualitative or self-reported rather than rigorously quantified.
Drawn from: Leefstraat (Living Streets) Ghent — A Citizen-Led Public-Space Living Lab · Every Family Online [Alle Gezinnen Online] [E-inclusion of vulnerable families by offering internet access at home, developing e-skills and increasing motivation] · Ghent Circulation Plan — Six Sectors, No Car Transit, Rolled Out in One Weekend · Ghent's Commons Transition Plan — Mapping the City as a Partner to Its Commons · Ghent's Green Roof & Rainwater Subsidy Programme — Two Decades of Municipal Payments for Stormwater Retention · Digitaal.Talent@Gent · Flanders Biodiversity Management Agreements — Beheerovereenkomsten (Belgium) · Gendering in the electoral run: A media monitoring study of women politicians’ representation in Belgian news
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +19 pts 67 here · 48 average
Innovation level +13 pts 75 here · 62 average
Weaknesses
Evidence of impact / measured results -13 pts 44 here · 57 average
Curator validation -13 pts 60 here · 73 average
Documented learning -24 pts 50 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach -26 pts 50 here · 76 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -28 pts 0 here · 28 average
Evaluation evidence -49 pts 0 here · 49 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Ghent. 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
Leefstraat (Living Streets) Ghent — A Citizen-Led Public-Space Living Lab · 76
Ghent Circulation Plan — Six Sectors, No Car Transit, Rolled Out in One Weekend · 62
Ghent's Commons Transition Plan — Mapping the City as a Partner to Its Commons · 43
Digitaal.Talent@Gent · 36
Flanders Biodiversity Management Agreements — Beheerovereenkomsten (Belgium) · 33
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
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- Backed by strong evidence
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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