What works in Bahrain
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Evidence snapshot for Bahrain
Bahrain has pursued targeted skills development and economic diversification through several major initiatives. The Technical Development Programme trains roughly 80 unemployed young Bahrainis annually on live e-government projects, with its first two cohorts producing 143 graduates and ~100 technical-role placements. The Bahrain FinTech Bay, launched in 2018 alongside the region's first central-bank regulatory sandbox, incubated 116+ startups before being acquired by the national payments utility Benefit in 2023, helping establish Bahrain as a regional fintech hub with ~115 active companies by 2024. The Labour Fund's Business Development Programme has supported 13,659 companies with BHD 193 million since 2009, while also co-financing wage increases that lifted average monthly pay from BHD 668 to BHD 760. Women now hold approximately 20% of parliamentary seats following reforms anchored by the Supreme Council for Women, though independent monitors document persistent implementation gaps.
Drawn from: Technical Development Programme (TTDP) · Bahrain FinTech Bay — Gulf's First Regulatory-Sandbox-Anchored Fintech Hub · Tamkeen's Business Development Programme — Bahrain's Labour-Fund-Financed SME Growth Engine · Bahrain's Supreme Council for Women — Two Decades of Top-Down Reform · Bahrain FinTech Bay · CBB's Digital Financial Advice Directives — Bahrain's Sandbox-Tested Framework for Licensing Robo-Advisers · eKey 2.0 — Bahrain's AI-Driven Digital Identity and eKYC Platform · Inspired AI Adaptive-Learning Pilot — British School of Bahrain, Hamala
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +55 pts 100 here · 45 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Curator validation +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Evaluated outcomes +15 pts 100 here · 85 average
Sustainability +15 pts 93 here · 78 average
Innovation level +10 pts 73 here · 63 average
Achievement / evidence +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Weaknesses
Evidence of impact / measured public value -9 pts 50 here · 59 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -17 pts 33 here · 50 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -17 pts 33 here · 51 average
Equity & inclusion -19 pts 33 here · 52 average
Inclusiveness / equity -20 pts 22 here · 42 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -20 pts 33 here · 54 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -21 pts 17 here · 37 average
Transferability / replicability -21 pts 38 here · 60 average
Governance, capability & sustainability -23 pts 42 here · 64 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -31 pts 17 here · 48 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -31 pts 0 here · 31 average
Efficiency -44 pts 0 here · 44 average
Effectiveness -77 pts 0 here · 77 average
Impact on gender equality -80 pts 0 here · 80 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Bahrain. 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
Technical Development Programme (TTDP) · 92
Bahrain FinTech Bay — Gulf's First Regulatory-Sandbox-Anchored Fintech Hub · 71
Tamkeen's Business Development Programme — Bahrain's Labour-Fund-Financed SME Growth Engine · 67
Bahrain's Supreme Council for Women — Two Decades of Top-Down Reform · 63
Bahrain FinTech Bay · 57
eKey 2.0 — Bahrain's AI-Driven Digital Identity and eKYC Platform · 47
Inspired AI Adaptive-Learning Pilot — British School of Bahrain, Hamala · 47
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Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in Bahrain 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
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
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
Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 90/100
- 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
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