What works in Harare
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Evidence snapshot for Harare
EcoCash — Econet's Mobile Money Service That Outgrew Zimbabwe's Banking System documents that Econet launched EcoCash in Harare in September 2011 during Zimbabwe's cash shortage crisis, making the city the origin point of a mobile-money service that would process over $23 billion in transactions within six years and reach 6.7 million users nationwide. The practice provides evidence of Harare's role as the launch site but does not quantify EcoCash uptake or impact specific to Harare itself. Freedom Fone — Open-Source IVR Toolkit Letting Community Groups Build Voice Services for Non-Literate Users and POTRAZ Digital Centres document national digital-access initiatives but do not report city-level or Harare-specific deployment data.
Drawn from: Freedom Fone — Open-Source IVR Toolkit Letting Community Groups Build Voice Services for Non-Literate Users · EcoCash — Econet's Mobile Money Service That Outgrew Zimbabwe's Banking System · POTRAZ Digital Centres – National Rural Digital Access Network, Zimbabwe · University of Zimbabwe Innovation Hub — From Lab IP to Commercial Start-Ups · ZOU AI for Educators — Zimbabwe Open University's National Teacher AI Certification Programme · ZIDA — Zimbabwe's One-Stop Investment Agency and Its Uneven Path to Faster Approvals · Zimbabwe CAMPFIRE — Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources · Citizens Scorecard — Zimbabwe's AI-Analysed WhatsApp Platform for Rating Local Council Services
Generated from this place's cited practices only. Always check the linked sources.
Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +52 pts 100 here · 48 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +35 pts 83 here · 48 average
Impact on gender equality +30 pts 100 here · 70 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy +29 pts 67 here · 38 average
Curator validation +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Evaluated outcomes +21 pts 100 here · 79 average
Scalability & sustainability +9 pts 71 here · 62 average
Weaknesses
Inclusiveness / equity -9 pts 33 here · 43 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -11 pts 17 here · 28 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -14 pts 33 here · 47 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value -17 pts 40 here · 57 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -18 pts 56 here · 74 average
Governance, certification & transferability -22 pts 42 here · 64 average
Documented learning -24 pts 50 here · 74 average
Evidence of learning impact -26 pts 0 here · 26 average
Sustainability -28 pts 50 here · 78 average
Efficiency -32 pts 0 here · 32 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -37 pts 17 here · 54 average
Effectiveness -67 pts 0 here · 67 average
Achievement / evidence -88 pts 0 here · 88 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding -89 pts 0 here · 89 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Harare. 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
EcoCash — Econet's Mobile Money Service That Outgrew Zimbabwe's Banking System · 71
POTRAZ Digital Centres – National Rural Digital Access Network, Zimbabwe · 68
University of Zimbabwe Innovation Hub — From Lab IP to Commercial Start-Ups · 57
ZOU AI for Educators — Zimbabwe Open University's National Teacher AI Certification Programme · 53
ZIDA — Zimbabwe's One-Stop Investment Agency and Its Uneven Path to Faster Approvals · 48
Zimbabwe CAMPFIRE — Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources · 47
Citizens Scorecard — Zimbabwe's AI-Analysed WhatsApp Platform for Rating Local Council Services · 40
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
Already adopted in 3 other places
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 4 other places
Karya — Fair-Wage AI Data-Work Platform Bringing Digital Income to Rural India · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
safe+natal — Comadrona-Designed Smartphone Checklist for Maternal Risk Screening in Rural Guatemala · fit 100/100
- 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