What works in Botswana
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Evidence snapshot for Botswana
Botswana has invested in multiple digital and innovation infrastructure initiatives. SmartBots Village Connectivity has connected 1,138 public facilities across 144 villages through satellite-backed broadband, reaching approximately 1.6 million people with free internet access, while Kitsong Centres grew from 3 pilot telecentres in 2004 to 110 centres nationwide by 2018. Botswana Innovation Hub operates as a science and technology park with 109 tenants and an incubator managing a portfolio of 60 start-ups, though a World Bank review noted persistent investment-readiness gaps. Additionally, AT-Info-Map trained 352 stakeholders across Botswana and the region to map assistive-technology suppliers, addressing the gap where 85–95% of people needing assistive technology lack access to it.
Drawn from: AT-Info-Map — Mapping Assistive Technology Suppliers Across Southern Africa · SmartBots Village Connectivity — Botswana's Universal-Service-Funded Rural Broadband Rollout · Botswana Innovation Hub — Gaborone's Government-Backed Science & Technology Park · Kitsong Centres – Rural Community Telecentre Network (Botswana) · Botswana's Self-Help Housing Agency (SHHA) — A Cautionary Tale in Site-and-Service Housing · GirlCode Pan-African Hackathon — AI, FinTech and Cybersecurity Track Reaches Gaborone · Botswana Investment and Trade Centre — Merging Investment and Export Promotion · Botswana Domestic Violence Act 2008 — First Explicit Legislation Against Domestic Violence
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Curator validation +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Evaluation evidence +22 pts 67 here · 45 average
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced +16 pts 22 here · 7 average
Achievement / evidence +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Weaknesses
Evidence of learning impact -11 pts 17 here · 28 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -17 pts 33 here · 50 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -20 pts 11 here · 31 average
Sustainability -20 pts 58 here · 78 average
Innovation level -21 pts 42 here · 63 average
Governance, certification & transferability -23 pts 42 here · 64 average
Scalability -26 pts 38 here · 64 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -26 pts 50 here · 76 average
Transferability / replicability -26 pts 33 here · 60 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -31 pts 17 here · 48 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -37 pts 0 here · 37 average
Documented learning -41 pts 33 here · 74 average
Efficiency -44 pts 0 here · 44 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -50 pts 0 here · 50 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -54 pts 0 here · 54 average
Effectiveness -77 pts 0 here · 77 average
Impact on gender equality -80 pts 0 here · 80 average
Evaluated outcomes -85 pts 0 here · 85 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding -91 pts 0 here · 91 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Botswana. 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
AT-Info-Map — Mapping Assistive Technology Suppliers Across Southern Africa · 72
SmartBots Village Connectivity — Botswana's Universal-Service-Funded Rural Broadband Rollout · 68
Botswana Innovation Hub — Gaborone's Government-Backed Science & Technology Park · 67
Kitsong Centres – Rural Community Telecentre Network (Botswana) · 52
Botswana's Self-Help Housing Agency (SHHA) — A Cautionary Tale in Site-and-Service Housing · 43
GirlCode Pan-African Hackathon — AI, FinTech and Cybersecurity Track Reaches Gaborone · 40
Botswana Investment and Trade Centre — Merging Investment and Export Promotion · 38
Botswana Domestic Violence Act 2008 — First Explicit Legislation Against Domestic Violence · 37
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Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in Botswana 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