What works in Lagos
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Evidence snapshot for Lagos
Lagos hosts several major innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives that have demonstrated significant continental impact. CcHub, founded in Lagos in 2010, has cumulatively deployed $17.1 million to 3,312 African ventures across 49 countries while catalysing $170 million in outside investment. Adaptive Atelier, a disability-led accessibility startup founded in Lagos in 2023, has built a network of over 5,000 disabled consultants and served roughly 5,000 organisations. Voices for Change, a gender-norms campaign operating across four Nigerian states including Lagos, reached an estimated 2.4 million young people with 89% showing improved attitudes or behaviour in gender equality areas. These practices document Lagos's role as a hub for tech innovation, employment creation, and social-norm change, though they measure direct outcomes rather than broader city-level economic or social metrics.
Drawn from: Adaptive Atelier — Disability-Led Accessibility Testing and AI-Assisted Design Marketplace · CcHub (Co-Creation Hub) — Africa's Pioneering Tech Innovation Hub · Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme — Pan-African Seed Funding at Continental Scale · Voices for Change (V4C) — DFID-Funded Social-Norms Campaign Against Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria · B’Odogwu — Nigeria’s AI-Driven Unified Customs Management System · Glovo's G-Learning & Couriers Pledge — Free Digital-Skills Training for Gig-Economy Delivery Riders in Nigeria · She Code Africa — Pan-African Digital Skills Training for Women and Girls · Zero of Eight: Nigeria's Federal and State Government Websites Fail Every Baseline Accessibility Test
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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
Impact on gender equality +29 pts 100 here · 71 average
Curator validation +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Inclusiveness / equity +24 pts 67 here · 43 average
Evidence of learning impact +24 pts 50 here · 26 average
Scalability beyond pilot +23 pts 85 here · 62 average
Transferability / demonstrated replication +21 pts 81 here · 60 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value +16 pts 73 here · 57 average
Achievement / evidence +12 pts 100 here · 88 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Weaknesses
Innovation -12 pts 50 here · 62 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -14 pts 33 here · 47 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -16 pts 58 here · 74 average
Effectiveness -18 pts 50 here · 68 average
Sustainability / continuity -18 pts 60 here · 78 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -20 pts 33 here · 54 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -21 pts 17 here · 37 average
Demonstrated reach -26 pts 50 here · 76 average
Evaluated outcomes -29 pts 50 here · 79 average
Efficiency -33 pts 0 here · 33 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Lagos. 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
Adaptive Atelier — Disability-Led Accessibility Testing and AI-Assisted Design Marketplace · 96
CcHub (Co-Creation Hub) — Africa's Pioneering Tech Innovation Hub · 86
Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme — Pan-African Seed Funding at Continental Scale · 76
Voices for Change (V4C) — DFID-Funded Social-Norms Campaign Against Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria · 74
B’Odogwu — Nigeria’s AI-Driven Unified Customs Management System · 73
She Code Africa — Pan-African Digital Skills Training for Women and Girls · 67
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
SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 100/100
- 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