What works in São Tomé
All catalogues · Sao Tome and Principe profile
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Evidence snapshot for São Tomé
HRSI Poverty Maps — Satellite-and-Machine-Learning Targeting for São Tomé and Príncipe's Safety Net shows São Tomé and Príncipe faces constraints in poverty data collection that prompted the World Bank to build satellite-based targeting tools. Digital São Tomé and Príncipe Project reveals a US$23.9M World Bank programme underway (36% disbursed by September 2025) to expand submarine fibre, school connectivity, digital ID and cyber capacity across the islands. CECAB — São Tomé's Farmer-Owned Organic Cocoa Cooperative demonstrates the country's cocoa sector, where roughly 3,000 farmers in the CECAB cooperative produced 1,650 tonnes in 2021 (a 40% increase on 2020) and opened a €450,000 chocolate factory in 2022 to move into value-added manufacturing. São Tomé and Príncipe's Political Parity Law shows that on 28 July 2022 the National Assembly unanimously passed legislation reserving 40% of parliamentary, cabinet and public-administration posts for women, though real implementation remains to be tested in the September 2026 election.
Drawn from: HRSI Poverty Maps — Satellite-and-Machine-Learning Targeting for São Tomé and Príncipe's Safety Net · Digital São Tomé and Príncipe Project (STP Digital) · CECAB — São Tomé's Farmer-Owned Organic Cocoa Cooperative Moves from Raw Beans to Chocolate · São Tomé and Príncipe's Political Parity Law: A 40% Quota Awaiting Its First Electoral Test · Giga's AI Satellite Mapping Reaches Every School in São Tomé and Príncipe · TRI–CECAB Agroforestry Carbon Programme — São Tomé's First Payment for Ecosystem Services Scheme
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +51 pts 100 here · 49 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +46 pts 100 here · 54 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +39 pts 67 here · 28 average
Curator validation +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value +26 pts 83 here · 57 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Inclusiveness / equity +24 pts 67 here · 43 average
Transferability / replicability +18 pts 78 here · 60 average
Equity & inclusion +17 pts 67 here · 50 average
Achievement / evidence +12 pts 100 here · 88 average
Sustainability +11 pts 89 here · 78 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Weaknesses
Transparency, ethics & data protection -14 pts 33 here · 47 average
Governance, certification & transferability -14 pts 50 here · 64 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Evidence of learning impact -26 pts 0 here · 26 average
Efficiency -33 pts 0 here · 33 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -37 pts 0 here · 37 average
Effectiveness -68 pts 0 here · 68 average
Impact on gender equality -71 pts 0 here · 71 average
Demonstrated reach -76 pts 0 here · 76 average
Evaluated outcomes -79 pts 0 here · 79 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: São Tomé. 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
HRSI Poverty Maps — Satellite-and-Machine-Learning Targeting for São Tomé and Príncipe's Safety Net · 73
Digital São Tomé and Príncipe Project (STP Digital) · 72
CECAB — São Tomé's Farmer-Owned Organic Cocoa Cooperative Moves from Raw Beans to Chocolate · 67
São Tomé and Príncipe's Political Parity Law: A 40% Quota Awaiting Its First Electoral Test · 52
Giga's AI Satellite Mapping Reaches Every School in São Tomé and Príncipe · 40
TRI–CECAB Agroforestry Carbon Programme — São Tomé's First Payment for Ecosystem Services Scheme · 40
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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
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- 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