What works in Nairobi
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Evidence snapshot for Nairobi
The evidence shows Nairobi as a hub for digital innovation and financial inclusion. M-Pesa, launched in Kenya, lifted an estimated 194,000 households out of extreme poverty and now serves 40 million monthly active users, with mobile money penetration reaching 91% across the country. TunapandaNET brings low-cost digital learning to Kibera, Nairobi's largest informal settlement, reaching about 1,800 young people through a community-owned wireless network connecting schools and youth centres. Innovate Now, Africa's first assistive technology venture accelerator, launched in Nairobi in 2019 and has supported over 90 ventures and 100+ entrepreneurs across 11 cohorts.
Drawn from: M-Pesa – Mobile Money as Financial and Digital Inclusion Infrastructure · TunapandaNET — A Community-Owned Wireless Network Bringing Digital Literacy to Kibera · Innovate Now — Africa's First Assistive Technology Venture Accelerator · iCow — From Voice to SMS: Redesigning a Livestock Advisory Service Around Kenyan Farmers' Real Literacy and Phone Access · Signs TV & assistALL (Signs Media Kenya) · Ushahidi — Kenya's Crowdsourced Crisis-Mapping Platform · eKitabu Accessible Content Program: Born-Accessible Books & Kenyan Sign Language Storytelling · Ajira Digital – Digital Skills and Online Jobs for Kenyan Youth
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Equity & inclusion +33 pts 83 here · 50 average
Evaluation evidence +23 pts 71 here · 49 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +19 pts 67 here · 48 average
Demonstrated reach +17 pts 93 here · 76 average
Inclusiveness / equity +16 pts 59 here · 43 average
Curator validation +16 pts 89 here · 73 average
Evidence of learning impact +15 pts 42 here · 26 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection +14 pts 61 here · 47 average
Innovation level +14 pts 76 here · 62 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +13 pts 87 here · 74 average
Evaluated outcomes +10 pts 89 here · 79 average
Weaknesses
Achievement / evidence -10 pts 78 here · 88 average
Effectiveness -12 pts 56 here · 68 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -12 pts 25 here · 37 average
Efficiency -22 pts 11 here · 33 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Nairobi. 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
M-Pesa – Mobile Money as Financial and Digital Inclusion Infrastructure · 100
TunapandaNET — A Community-Owned Wireless Network Bringing Digital Literacy to Kibera · 96
Innovate Now — Africa's First Assistive Technology Venture Accelerator · 96
Signs TV & assistALL (Signs Media Kenya) · 96
Ushahidi — Kenya's Crowdsourced Crisis-Mapping Platform · 95
eKitabu Accessible Content Program: Born-Accessible Books & Kenyan Sign Language Storytelling · 92
Ajira Digital – Digital Skills and Online Jobs for Kenyan Youth · 92
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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
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
Abolition of Chhaupadi — Ending Menstrual Exile Huts in Nepal's Far- and Mid-Western Districts · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Guyana's One-Third Gender Candidate Quota — Two Decades of Sustained Representation · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Serbia's 40% Electoral Gender Quota — From One-in-Three to Near-Parity Party Lists (2020-2025) · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Bogotá's Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado) · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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