What works in Yerevan
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Evidence snapshot for Yerevan
The evidence shows Yerevan as a hub for youth technology and creative education. TUMO Center for Creative Technologies, founded in Yerevan in 2011, has grown to six centres in Armenia reaching approximately 25,000 students weekly, with alumni 3.6 times more likely to pursue tech or creative university degrees than peers (29% vs 8%). Kolba Lab, embedded in UNDP's Yerevan office since 2011, has incubated 40 start-ups from 700 submissions, with 14 documented as generating social or market impact, including platforms adopted by Yerevan municipality. The practices demonstrate Yerevan's capacity for youth STEM/creative engagement and innovation infrastructure, though they do not quantify broader economic or demographic outcomes.
Drawn from: TUMO Center for Creative Technologies — Free Extracurricular Tech & Design Education for Teens · Armath Engineering Laboratories · Armenia's National Action Plan to Prevent Gender-Biased Sex Selection · Kolba Lab — Armenia's Government-Embedded Crowdsourced Innovation Lab · Armenia's 30% Gender Quota for Parliamentary Candidate Lists (Electoral Code, 2016) · STEP.ai — Armenia's Ministry-Accredited Three-Year AI & Machine Learning Curriculum for Secondary Schools · Armenia's AI-Assisted Asset Declaration Platform — the Corruption Prevention Commission's EPD · Armenia SRC — ML-Powered Tax Compliance and CIT Gap Estimation
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +64 pts 100 here · 36 average
Documented learning +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Demonstrated reach +25 pts 100 here · 75 average
Effectiveness +19 pts 100 here · 81 average
Impact on gender equality +17 pts 100 here · 83 average
Evaluated outcomes +16 pts 100 here · 84 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +13 pts 67 here · 54 average
Weaknesses
Transparency, ethics & data protection -8 pts 42 here · 50 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -12 pts 67 here · 78 average
Sustainability (ongoing) -13 pts 67 here · 80 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -14 pts 25 here · 39 average
Curator validation -25 pts 50 here · 75 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value -27 pts 33 here · 60 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding -40 pts 50 here · 90 average
Efficiency -52 pts 0 here · 52 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Yerevan. 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
TUMO Center for Creative Technologies — Free Extracurricular Tech & Design Education for Teens · 100
Armath Engineering Laboratories · 92
Armenia's National Action Plan to Prevent Gender-Biased Sex Selection · 74
Kolba Lab — Armenia's Government-Embedded Crowdsourced Innovation Lab · 71
Armenia's 30% Gender Quota for Parliamentary Candidate Lists (Electoral Code, 2016) · 63
Armenia's AI-Assisted Asset Declaration Platform — the Corruption Prevention Commission's EPD · 53
Armenia SRC — ML-Powered Tax Compliance and CIT Gap Estimation · 53
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
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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
- 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