What works in Nouakchott
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Evidence snapshot for Nouakchott
Nouakchott benefits from significant broadband infrastructure: WARCIP built a national fiber backbone that lifted population broadband access from 2% to 71%, with the capital hosting a national data centre and a fiber loop. The city is also home to the SAFIA Center, which runs an offline tablet-based French course for at-risk girls, where a 2023 evaluation of 59 girls found test scores nearly doubled, with the largest gains among 11- and 12-year-olds (+156% and +138% respectively). However, the evidence does not quantify broadband access or educational outcomes specifically for Nouakchott versus other regions, and the practices do not provide baseline data on broader development challenges in the capital.
Drawn from: West Africa Regional Communications Infrastructure Program – Mauritania (WARCIP) · Mauritania's Reserved-Seat Quota for Women in Parliament and Local Councils · Off to Learn — Offline Blended French Course Nearly Doubles Test Scores for At-Risk Girls in Nouakchott, Mauritania · Houwiyeti — Mauritania's AI Facial-Biometric Digital ID for E-Government Access · The Digital School's AI-Personalised Learning Rollout Reaches Mauritania · Khidmaty — Mauritania's Digital One-Stop Shop for Business Registration and Investment Certificates · Nouakchott's Coastal Dune Belt: Repeated Rescue of a Sinking Sea Wall
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +52 pts 100 here · 48 average
Evaluation evidence +51 pts 100 here · 49 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy +46 pts 83 here · 37 average
Equity & inclusion +33 pts 83 here · 50 average
Effectiveness +32 pts 100 here · 68 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
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Evidence of learning impact +24 pts 50 here · 26 average
Evaluated outcomes +21 pts 100 here · 79 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +13 pts 67 here · 54 average
Scalability & sustainability +13 pts 75 here · 62 average
Achievement / evidence +12 pts 100 here · 88 average
Sustainability (ongoing) +11 pts 89 here · 78 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Weaknesses
Inclusiveness / equity -9 pts 33 here · 43 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Innovation level -15 pts 47 here · 62 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value -24 pts 33 here · 57 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -28 pts 0 here · 28 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -30 pts 17 here · 47 average
Efficiency -33 pts 0 here · 33 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Nouakchott. 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
West Africa Regional Communications Infrastructure Program – Mauritania (WARCIP) · 92
Mauritania's Reserved-Seat Quota for Women in Parliament and Local Councils · 85
Houwiyeti — Mauritania's AI Facial-Biometric Digital ID for E-Government Access · 60
The Digital School's AI-Personalised Learning Rollout Reaches Mauritania · 53
Khidmaty — Mauritania's Digital One-Stop Shop for Business Registration and Investment Certificates · 52
Nouakchott's Coastal Dune Belt: Repeated Rescue of a Sinking Sea Wall · 40
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
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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
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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