What works in Ouagadougou
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Quality scores are 0–100 rubric scores; “strong evidence” reflects study design; adoptions count documented replications elsewhere. Know more
Evidence snapshot for Ouagadougou
Ouagadougou has deployed AI-paired traffic cameras to auto-detect and fine four categories of violations via mobile-money payment, flagging over 1,000 violations in its first 12 hours of full operation in August 2026, though only 5 fines were paid by midday on launch day, revealing an early compliance gap. The city is also home to Orange Digital Center, a training and incubation hub that delivered 243,000 training hours to 4,869 people in 2025, placing over 100 graduates into employment and coaching 15 startups. These initiatives reflect investment in both public safety enforcement and youth digital skills, though the traffic system's detection accuracy and appeals process remain undisclosed, and job placement durability is not yet tracked.
Drawn from: L'OCCITANE pour Elles: Fair Trade Shea Cooperatives Empowering Rural Women · Orange Digital Center Burkina Faso · AI Traffic-Camera Enforcement — Ouagadougou's Automated Violation Detection and Mobile-Money Fines
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +64 pts 100 here · 36 average
Demonstrated reach +25 pts 100 here · 75 average
Curator validation +25 pts 100 here · 75 average
Sustainability +20 pts 100 here · 80 average
Effectiveness +19 pts 100 here · 81 average
Impact on gender equality +17 pts 100 here · 83 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +10 pts 100 here · 90 average
Weaknesses
Transferability / replicability -9 pts 50 here · 59 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value -26 pts 33 here · 60 average
Governance, capability & sustainability -32 pts 33 here · 66 average
Efficiency -52 pts 0 here · 52 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -54 pts 0 here · 54 average
Documented learning -73 pts 0 here · 73 average
Evaluated outcomes -84 pts 0 here · 84 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Ouagadougou. 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
L'OCCITANE pour Elles: Fair Trade Shea Cooperatives Empowering Rural Women · 74
Orange Digital Center Burkina Faso · 72
AI Traffic-Camera Enforcement — Ouagadougou's Automated Violation Detection and Mobile-Money Fines · 33
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
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
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
Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Stadtidee Aarau — Switzerland's First City-Wide Participatory Budget Using the Method of Equal Shares · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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