What works in Jinja
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Evidence snapshot for Jinja
Two practices directly involve Jinja. UNICEF & Uganda's Ministry of Education's accessible digital textbooks programme operated in Spire Road Primary School in Jinja, where in 2021 four first-grade students passed the Primary Leaving Examination, including two visually impaired students, though outcomes remain modest and anecdotal. The water hyacinth biocontrol initiative on Lake Victoria, centred at Owen Falls hydropower dam in Jinja, saw water hyacinth coverage fall from roughly 20,000 hectares at its 1998 peak to about 500 hectares by 2000, restoring hydropower generation and fishing grounds, though nutrient-driven regrowth returned in 2006.
Drawn from: UNICEF & Uganda's Ministry of Education — Accessible Digital Textbooks for Learners with Disabilities · PRIDE–ILO Loans, Grants and Training Trial for Ugandan Microentrepreneurs · Water Hyacinth Weevil Biocontrol on Lake Victoria — Restoring Uganda's Owen Falls Dam and Fisheries
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Equity & inclusion +50 pts 100 here · 50 average
Transferability / demonstrated replication +40 pts 100 here · 60 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy +29 pts 67 here · 37 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +19 pts 67 here · 48 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +18 pts 67 here · 48 average
Evidence of impact / measured results +9 pts 67 here · 57 average
Weaknesses
Inclusiveness / equity -9 pts 33 here · 43 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -14 pts 33 here · 47 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -28 pts 0 here · 28 average
Innovation -29 pts 33 here · 62 average
Scalability -29 pts 33 here · 62 average
Sustainability / continuity -45 pts 33 here · 78 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Jinja. 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
PRIDE–ILO Loans, Grants and Training Trial for Ugandan Microentrepreneurs · 52
Water Hyacinth Weevil Biocontrol on Lake Victoria — Restoring Uganda's Owen Falls Dam and Fisheries · 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.
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- 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