What works in Heredia
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Evidence snapshot for Heredia
Heredia, Costa Rica has implemented two major evidence-based economic and environmental initiatives. Costa Rica's supplier-linkage programme has connected domestic manufacturers with multinational buyers in export-processing zones around Heredia and the Greater Metropolitan Area, with firms landing a first multinational buyer seeing employment rise by 26% and productivity gains of 4–9% within four years. ESPH, Heredia's public water utility, has operated a watershed tariff programme since 2000 that charged customers a dedicated water tariff to fund direct payments to upstream landowners, investing over ₡1.2 billion (US$2M+) between 2002 and 2020 across roughly 1,000 hectares conserved or reforested—though measured hydrological outcomes (water flow or quality) remain undocumented.
Drawn from: Joining Multinational Supply Chains — Costa Rica's Evidence-Based Supplier-Linkage Push · ESPH Procuencas Watershed Tariff Programme (Costa Rica) · ESPH Pago por Servicios Ambientales Hídricos — Municipal Water-Tariff PES (Heredia, Costa Rica)
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evidence of impact / measured results +43 pts 100 here · 57 average
Governance, certification & transferability +36 pts 100 here · 64 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +19 pts 67 here · 48 average
Weaknesses
Inclusiveness / equity -10 pts 33 here · 43 average
Sustainability / continuity -11 pts 67 here · 78 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -27 pts 0 here · 27 average
Innovation -28 pts 33 here · 62 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -31 pts 17 here · 48 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Heredia. 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
Joining Multinational Supply Chains — Costa Rica's Evidence-Based Supplier-Linkage Push · 62
ESPH Procuencas Watershed Tariff Programme (Costa Rica) · 40
ESPH Pago por Servicios Ambientales Hídricos — Municipal Water-Tariff PES (Heredia, Costa Rica) · 33
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
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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
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- Backed by strong evidence
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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