What works in Burundi
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Evidence snapshot for Burundi
Burundi faces significant development challenges alongside targeted interventions to expand financial inclusion and rural livelihoods. Mobile money has become the primary financial channel for 43% of Burundians, filling a gap where only 12.5% of adults held formal financial institution accounts as of 2016, though a 2023 government account freeze exposed systemic risks. Land certification programmes have issued over 93,000 certificates with roughly 70% registered in both spouses' names, expanding women's legal property rights, while agroforestry initiatives have brought over 4,400 hectares under sustainable management and benefited more than 18,700 people. A new $100 million World Bank programme approved in 2023 aims to formalize MSMEs and create 4,228 direct jobs with priority for women and refugee-owned businesses, though actual employment outcomes remain to be demonstrated.
Drawn from: EcoCash Burundi: Mobile Money for Financial Inclusion · Joint-Spousal Land Certification under Burundi's Landscape Restoration and Resilience Project (PRRPB) · JET — Burundi's $100 Million World Bank Programme to Formalise and Finance MSMEs · Sustainable Coffee Landscapes Project — Shade-Grown Agroforestry for Watershed Protection (Burundi) · Yoma Digital Marketplace — AI-Matched Learning Pathways for Youth in Burundi and Beyond · African Girls Can Code Initiative — UN Women's Coding, Robotics and AI Camp for Young Women in Bubanza Province, Burundi · Burundi's National AI Strategy (SNIA 2025–2030) — Six Pillars Anchor AI in Education Nationwide · Burundi Validates a Six-Pillar National AI Strategy (2026–2030) With UNDP, Naming Rural Power and Connectivity as the Core Constraint
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Inclusiveness / equity +57 pts 100 here · 43 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +52 pts 100 here · 48 average
Evaluation evidence +51 pts 100 here · 49 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
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Evaluated outcomes +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Achievement / evidence +13 pts 100 here · 87 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Weaknesses
Governance, certification & transferability -14 pts 50 here · 64 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -14 pts 33 here · 47 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -14 pts 33 here · 48 average
Scalability & sustainability -15 pts 47 here · 62 average
Transferability / replicability -16 pts 44 here · 60 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -20 pts 33 here · 54 average
Evidence of impact / measured results -24 pts 33 here · 57 average
Innovation level -25 pts 37 here · 62 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -27 pts 11 here · 38 average
Efficiency -32 pts 0 here · 32 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -40 pts 33 here · 74 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Burundi. 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
EcoCash Burundi: Mobile Money for Financial Inclusion · 88
JET — Burundi's $100 Million World Bank Programme to Formalise and Finance MSMEs · 52
Sustainable Coffee Landscapes Project — Shade-Grown Agroforestry for Watershed Protection (Burundi) · 47
Yoma Digital Marketplace — AI-Matched Learning Pathways for Youth in Burundi and Beyond · 40
Burundi's National AI Strategy (SNIA 2025–2030) — Six Pillars Anchor AI in Education Nationwide · 27
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 Burundi 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