What works in Austria
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Evidence snapshot for Austria
Austria has implemented several evidence-based governance and protection initiatives. Austria's Violence Protection Act combines emergency police barring orders and state-funded Intervention Centres that in 2022 issued over 14,600 barring orders and supported 25,114 victims, with the model now adopted by 17+ European countries. Vienna's Smart City Framework Strategy, legally binding since 2014, targets cutting per-capita transport CO₂ emissions by 50% by 2030 and 100% by 2040, and has been repeatedly ranked the world's most liveable city. Austria's federal digital-accessibility monitoring reduced websites failing over half of WCAG criteria from 51% (2020/21) to 9% (2024), though no audited site achieved full conformance.
Drawn from: Austria's Violence Protection Act and Intervention Centres (Gewaltschutzgesetz 1997/2019) · Smart City Wien Framework Strategy · Cross Mentoring for Women Programme · FFG Monitoringstelle des Bundes — Austria's Multi-Year Digital Accessibility Monitoring with Disability-Led Testing · fit4internet – National Digital Competence Assessment and Upskilling Platform · Gebietsbetreuung Stadterneuerung — Vienna's Soft Urban Renewal Offices · Austria's Constitutional Gender Budgeting Mandate (Article 13(3) B-VG) · Vienna's Dual Social Housing Model — Municipal Gemeindebau plus Limited-Profit Housing at City Scale
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Inclusiveness / equity +21 pts 64 here · 43 average
Effectiveness +20 pts 86 here · 66 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +19 pts 67 here · 48 average
Efficiency +14 pts 46 here · 32 average
Sustainability +12 pts 90 here · 78 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +9 pts 62 here · 54 average
Weaknesses
Curator validation -10 pts 63 here · 73 average
Demonstrated reach -13 pts 62 here · 76 average
Achievement / evidence -15 pts 71 here · 87 average
Equity & inclusion -23 pts 27 here · 50 average
Evaluation evidence -24 pts 25 here · 49 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Austria. 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
Austria's Violence Protection Act and Intervention Centres (Gewaltschutzgesetz 1997/2019) · 100
Smart City Wien Framework Strategy · 95
Cross Mentoring for Women Programme · 95
fit4internet – National Digital Competence Assessment and Upskilling Platform · 88
Gebietsbetreuung Stadterneuerung — Vienna's Soft Urban Renewal Offices · 86
Austria's Constitutional Gender Budgeting Mandate (Article 13(3) B-VG) · 85
Vienna's Dual Social Housing Model — Municipal Gemeindebau plus Limited-Profit Housing at City Scale · 81
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Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in Austria concentrates — each city has its own evidence profile.
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
- 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
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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
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- 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