What works in Lilongwe
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Evidence snapshot for Lilongwe
mHub & the UNDP Growth Accelerator Challenge was founded in Lilongwe in 2013 and has trained over 30,000 young Malawians in coding, robotics, data science and entrepreneurship. Through six rounds of the UNDP-backed Growth Accelerator Challenge since 2018, mHub has co-financed 62 enterprises with over $1.5 million, creating 521 jobs (36% held by women) and reaching more than 10,000 people across supported value chains. The evidence is self-reported by the implementing organisation and does not include independent third-party evaluation of longer-term outcomes.
Drawn from: Tiwerenge 365 (T365) — Solar-Powered Accessible Digital Books for Children with Disabilities in Malawi · Malawi Digital Foundations Project (DIGMAP) – National Digital Infrastructure, Skills and Connectivity Programme · CARE Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) — Women's Financial Inclusion and Economic Empowerment in Rural Malawi · mHub & the UNDP Growth Accelerator Challenge — Financing Malawi's Youth and Women-Led Enterprises · BEFIT — Building Education Foundations through Innovation & Technology: AI-adaptive foundational literacy and numeracy for Malawi's primary schools · Malawi Innovation Challenge Fund — Matching Grants Turning Inclusive-Business Ideas into Jobs · Financial Inclusion and Entrepreneurship Scaling (FInES) Project · Ulangizi AI — Malawi's Government-Data-Backed Farming Advisory Chatbot
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Efficiency +67 pts 100 here · 33 average
Evaluation evidence +51 pts 100 here · 49 average
Inclusiveness / equity +46 pts 89 here · 43 average
Effectiveness +32 pts 100 here · 68 average
Impact on gender equality +29 pts 100 here · 71 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Evaluated outcomes +21 pts 100 here · 79 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection +20 pts 67 here · 47 average
Achievement / evidence +12 pts 100 here · 88 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Weaknesses
Scalability & sustainability -8 pts 54 here · 62 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -26 pts 11 here · 37 average
Governance, capability & sustainability -30 pts 33 here · 64 average
Curator validation -73 pts 0 here · 73 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Lilongwe. 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
mHub & the UNDP Growth Accelerator Challenge — Financing Malawi's Youth and Women-Led Enterprises · 76
Malawi Innovation Challenge Fund — Matching Grants Turning Inclusive-Business Ideas into Jobs · 71
Financial Inclusion and Entrepreneurship Scaling (FInES) Project · 67
Ulangizi AI — Malawi's Government-Data-Backed Farming Advisory Chatbot · 40
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
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