What works in São Tomé
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Evidence snapshot for São Tomé
São Tomé and Príncipe is implementing three major development initiatives: a US$23.9M World Bank digital infrastructure programme building submarine fibre, school connectivity, and digital ID (36% disbursed by September 2025); a 40% gender quota for parliament, cabinet and public administration unanimously approved in 2022, though women's parliamentary representation remained at 14.55% following the 2022 election; and a landscape restoration and Payment for Ecosystem Services scheme that has brought 9,683 hectares under restoration and produced over 91,000 tree seedlings since 2018, with a carbon-payment layer added in 2023. However, beneficiary-level outcomes from the digital programme (schools connected, digital IDs issued) and audited carbon or farmer-income figures from the ecosystem services scheme remain unpublished.
Drawn from: Digital São Tomé and Príncipe Project (STP Digital) · São Tomé and Príncipe's Political Parity Law: A 40% Quota Awaiting Its First Electoral Test · 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 +64 pts 100 here · 36 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +32 pts 67 here · 35 average
Documented learning +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Curator validation +25 pts 100 here · 75 average
Sustainability +20 pts 100 here · 80 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +10 pts 100 here · 90 average
Weaknesses
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced -9 pts 0 here · 9 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -18 pts 33 here · 51 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -20 pts 33 here · 53 average
Efficiency -52 pts 0 here · 52 average
Demonstrated reach -75 pts 0 here · 75 average
Effectiveness -81 pts 0 here · 81 average
Impact on gender equality -83 pts 0 here · 83 average
Evaluated outcomes -84 pts 0 here · 84 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
Digital São Tomé and Príncipe Project (STP Digital) · 72
São Tomé and Príncipe's Political Parity Law: A 40% Quota Awaiting Its First Electoral Test · 52
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
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
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
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