What works in Burkina Faso
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Evidence snapshot for Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso has demonstrated significant progress in women's economic empowerment and youth digital skills training. L'OCCITANE's Fair Trade shea programme has reached over 42,000 women through literacy centres, microcredit and business training, generating approximately US$1.23 million annually for roughly 15,000 cooperative members in Burkina Faso's shea sector. Orange Digital Center Burkina Faso trained 4,869 young people (including 1,255 women) in 2025 alone, placing over 100 graduates into employment, while farmer-led zaï water-harvesting pits have restored degraded cropland with millet and sorghum yields reaching approximately 1,500 kg/ha compared to under 500 kg/ha on untreated soil. However, air quality monitoring across three major cities shows severe pollution, with average PM2.5 levels of 46.7 µg/m³—roughly nine times the WHO annual guideline.
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 · PADEJ-MR Rural Youth Incubator — Burkina Faso's AfDB-Backed Entrepreneurship Programme · AI Traffic-Camera Enforcement — Ouagadougou's Automated Violation Detection and Mobile-Money Fines · Tablet-Based Adaptive Learning in Rural Burkina Faso — A Funding-Driven Shutdown (Pissila & Tibtenga) · Household-Scale Constructed Wetland for Greywater Reuse — Noungou, Burkina Faso
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +55 pts 100 here · 45 average
Curator validation +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Effectiveness +23 pts 100 here · 77 average
Impact on gender equality +20 pts 100 here · 80 average
Equity & inclusion +14 pts 67 here · 52 average
Achievement / evidence +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Weaknesses
Innovation level -10 pts 53 here · 63 average
Governance, certification & transferability -11 pts 53 here · 64 average
Scalability & sustainability -14 pts 50 here · 64 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -14 pts 17 here · 31 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value -26 pts 33 here · 59 average
Efficiency -44 pts 0 here · 44 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -48 pts 0 here · 48 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -54 pts 0 here · 54 average
Documented learning -74 pts 0 here · 74 average
Evaluated outcomes -85 pts 0 here · 85 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
AI Traffic-Camera Enforcement — Ouagadougou's Automated Violation Detection and Mobile-Money Fines · 33
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
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
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