What works in Burkina Faso
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Evidence snapshot for Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso's development landscape spans economic empowerment, skills training, and environmental restoration. L'OCCITANE's Fair Trade shea programme has reached over 42,000 women and generated US$1.23 million annually for roughly 15,000 cooperative members since 2009, while Orange Digital Center trained 4,869 young people (1,255 women) in 2025 and placed 100+ into employment. On the agricultural front, zaï planting pits have enabled millet and sorghum yields of around 1,500 kg/ha on degraded cropland, compared with under 500 kg/ha untreated. However, air quality remains a serious challenge: PM2.5 levels average 46.7 µg/m³ across Ouagadougou, Bobo-Dioulasso and Koudougou—roughly 9–14 times WHO guidelines.
Drawn from: L'OCCITANE pour Elles: Fair Trade Shea Cooperatives Empowering Rural Women · Orange Digital Center Burkina Faso · Zaï Pits — Farmer-Led Water-Harvesting Restoration of Degraded Cropland, Yatenga, Burkina Faso · A Calibrated Low-Cost PM2.5 Sensor Network Across Burkina Faso's Three Largest Cities · Burkina Faso's Digital Acceleration Project (PACTDIGITAL) — Public-Service Platforms Live Before Rural Broadband Reaches the Displaced · PADEJ-MR Rural Youth Incubator — Burkina Faso's AfDB-Backed Entrepreneurship Programme · SAS Hackeuses — Simplon Burkina Faso's Free AI Specialization for Women Coders in Ouagadougou · AI Traffic-Camera Enforcement — Ouagadougou's Automated Violation Detection and Mobile-Money Fines
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +51 pts 100 here · 49 average
Equity & inclusion +34 pts 83 here · 50 average
Effectiveness +34 pts 100 here · 66 average
Impact on gender equality +30 pts 100 here · 70 average
Curator validation +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Achievement / evidence +13 pts 100 here · 87 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +10 pts 83 here · 74 average
Weaknesses
Scalability & sustainability -9 pts 53 here · 62 average
Demonstrated reach -9 pts 67 here · 76 average
Sustainability -11 pts 67 here · 78 average
Governance, certification & transferability -14 pts 50 here · 64 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -14 pts 13 here · 27 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -21 pts 17 here · 38 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value -24 pts 33 here · 57 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -30 pts 17 here · 47 average
Efficiency -32 pts 0 here · 32 average
Documented learning -41 pts 33 here · 74 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -54 pts 0 here · 54 average
Evaluated outcomes -78 pts 0 here · 78 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Burkina Faso. 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
Zaï Pits — Farmer-Led Water-Harvesting Restoration of Degraded Cropland, Yatenga, Burkina Faso · 67
A Calibrated Low-Cost PM2.5 Sensor Network Across Burkina Faso's Three Largest Cities · 67
PADEJ-MR Rural Youth Incubator — Burkina Faso's AfDB-Backed Entrepreneurship Programme · 48
SAS Hackeuses — Simplon Burkina Faso's Free AI Specialization for Women Coders in Ouagadougou · 47
Each number is the practice's overall 0–100 quality score against its catalogue's rubric. Know more
Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in Burkina Faso concentrates — each city has its own evidence profile.
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
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
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