What works in Canada
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Quality scores are 0–100 rubric scores; “strong evidence” reflects study design; adoptions count documented replications elsewhere. Know more
Evidence snapshot for Canada
Canada has implemented a federal child-care subsidy programme that reduced regulated care costs from ~16% to 5% of after-tax family income and correlated with maternal labour-force participation reaching 79.6%, though only about 112,000 of 250,000+ targeted new spaces were created by 2024/25. The country has also developed inclusive-design and accessibility infrastructure, including OCAD University's Inclusive Design Research Centre (founded 1994, with ~20 staff and $2.9M in recent grants) and the Toronto-based Fable company (which raised $15.4M CAD in funding to scale disability-led product testing). First Nations communities in northwestern Ontario pioneered community-owned broadband and telehealth networks through K-Net, expanding from 6 founding communities to support over 100 First Nations communities, though hundreds of First Nations across Canada still lack adequate broadband.
Drawn from: Inclusive Design Research Centre (OCAD University) — Open-Source Inclusive Design · Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care System ($10-a-Day Child Care) · Fable — Accessibility Testing and Co-Design with People with Disabilities · K-Net — First Nations-Owned Broadband and Telehealth Network · TRIEC Mentoring Partnership · TRIEC Mentoring Partnership — Toronto's Skilled-Immigrant Employment Bridge · Cyber-Seniors: Connecting Generations — Reverse-Mentoring Digital and Online-Safety Training · Digital Literacy Exchange Program (DLEP)
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +27 pts 71 here · 45 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +17 pts 71 here · 54 average
Evaluated outcomes +16 pts 100 here · 84 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +15 pts 91 here · 76 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection +14 pts 61 here · 48 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Curator validation +9 pts 83 here · 74 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value +9 pts 68 here · 59 average
Weaknesses
Effectiveness -11 pts 67 here · 77 average
Equity & inclusion -13 pts 39 here · 52 average
Achievement / evidence -24 pts 67 here · 91 average
Efficiency -28 pts 17 here · 44 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Canada. 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
Inclusive Design Research Centre (OCAD University) — Open-Source Inclusive Design · 100
Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care System ($10-a-Day Child Care) · 96
Fable — Accessibility Testing and Co-Design with People with Disabilities · 96
K-Net — First Nations-Owned Broadband and Telehealth Network · 96
TRIEC Mentoring Partnership · 91
TRIEC Mentoring Partnership — Toronto's Skilled-Immigrant Employment Bridge · 91
Caring Dads — Canada's Child-Protection-Linked Programme for Fathers Who Have Used Violence · 89
Cyber-Seniors: Connecting Generations — Reverse-Mentoring Digital and Online-Safety Training · 88
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 Canada 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
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
Serbia's 40% Electoral Gender Quota — From One-in-Three to Near-Parity Party Lists (2020-2025) · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Bogotá's Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado) · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- 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