evidoria

What works in Heredia

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3
evaluated practices
45/100
average quality score
33%
strong evidence, of 3 assessed

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Evidence snapshot for Heredia

Heredia, in Costa Rica, has pioneered two significant economic and environmental initiatives. ESPH's water utility has charged customers a dedicated watershed tariff since 2000 to fund conservation payments to upstream landowners—investing over ₡1.2 billion (~US$2M+) across roughly 1,000 hectares between 2002 and 2020, though a 2007 World Bank review found no quantitative evidence of measured impacts on water flow or quality. In the industrial sphere, domestic firms in Heredia's export-processing zones that secured their first multinational buyer added 26% more workers and 4–9% higher productivity within four years, with spillover sales to non-multinational customers growing 20%, driving PROCOMER's Encadenados supplier-linkage programme in the area.

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 +41 pts 100 here · 59 average

Governance, certification & transferability +36 pts 100 here · 64 average

Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +17 pts 67 here · 50 average

Weaknesses

Inclusiveness / equity -9 pts 33 here · 42 average

Multi-stakeholder collaboration -9 pts 67 here · 76 average

Sustainability / continuity -12 pts 67 here · 78 average

Innovation -30 pts 33 here · 63 average

Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -31 pts 0 here · 31 average

Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -34 pts 17 here · 50 average

Score profile vs peers

Evidence of impact / measured results
100 · 59
Governance, certification & transferability
100 · 64
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control
67 · 50
Transferability / demonstrated replication
67 · 60
Scalability
67 · 64
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced
0 · 7
Inclusiveness / equity
33 · 42
Multi-stakeholder collaboration
67 · 76
Sustainability / continuity
67 · 78
Innovation
33 · 63
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced
0 · 31
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced
17 · 50

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

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.

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  • Rated highly transferable
  • Backed by strong evidence
  • Addresses this place's weak dimensions

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  • 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

Sweden's Barnahus (Children's House) — Multidisciplinary One-Stop Centres for Child Victims of Sexual Abuse and Violence · fit 90/100

  • Rated highly transferable
  • Backed by strong evidence
  • Addresses this place's weak dimensions

Already adopted in 6 other places

Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 90/100

  • Rated highly transferable
  • Backed by strong evidence
  • Addresses this place's weak dimensions

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  • Rated highly transferable
  • 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