What works in Herat
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Evidence snapshot for Herat
Herat has been home to two significant tech education initiatives for Afghan women and girls. Code to Inspire, founded in Herat in 2015, taught roughly 200 young women coding and app development, with 60–70% of graduates finding employment or freelancing in tech before its physical campus closed after the 2021 Taliban takeover. The Digital Citizen Fund, also founded in Herat, has since adapted to reach an estimated 500 students through an offline app and underground classrooms. Both initiatives are self-reported rather than independently audited, and their current operational status in Herat remains constrained by the restrictions on female education imposed since 2021.
Drawn from: Code to Inspire · Digital Citizen Fund's Edy — Offline AI Learning App for Afghan Girls Banned from School · Code to Inspire — Afghanistan's First All-Female Coding School, Now Interrupted
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +51 pts 100 here · 49 average
Equity & inclusion +50 pts 100 here · 50 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Inclusiveness / equity +24 pts 67 here · 43 average
Innovation level +12 pts 73 here · 62 average
Weaknesses
Transparency, ethics & data protection -14 pts 33 here · 47 average
Evidence of impact / measured results -24 pts 33 here · 57 average
Evidence of learning impact -26 pts 0 here · 26 average
Transferability / demonstrated replication -27 pts 33 here · 60 average
Sustainability (ongoing) -28 pts 50 here · 78 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -38 pts 0 here · 38 average
Scalability & sustainability -45 pts 17 here · 62 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -74 pts 0 here · 74 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Herat. 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
Code to Inspire · 96
Digital Citizen Fund's Edy — Offline AI Learning App for Afghan Girls Banned from School · 33
Code to Inspire — Afghanistan's First All-Female Coding School, Now Interrupted · 29
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
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- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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- 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
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