What works in Switzerland
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Evidence snapshot for Switzerland
Switzerland's evidence-based practices span criminal-justice intervention, public transport accessibility, participatory governance, and disease surveillance. Zurich's court-mandated domestic-violence learning programme reduced reconviction rates from 25% among non-completers to 14% among programme completers, with an estimated cost-benefit ratio of 1:6–7. Aarau's participatory budget using proportional allocation funded 17 neighbourhood projects across all districts versus an estimated 7 under plurality voting, with 9 completed by end of 2024. Switzerland has also invested in accessible rail travel design and national pathogen genomic surveillance processing 165,000+ SARS-CoV-2 isolates, though the practices show implementation and outcome details rather than comparative national benchmarks.
Drawn from: Partnerschaft ohne Gewalt (PoG) — Zurich's Court-Mandated Learning Programme for Domestic-Violence Perpetrators · SBB Inclusive — Participatory Design of a Real-Time Accessible Travel App for Blind and Visually Impaired Rail Passengers · Stadtidee Aarau — Switzerland's First City-Wide Participatory Budget Using the Method of Equal Shares · Swiss Pathogen Surveillance Platform (SPSP) — AI-Powered National Genomic Epidemic Surveillance · Schweizer Accessibility-Studie — Two Decades of Independent Swiss Digital Accessibility Measurement · Partnerschaft ohne Gewalt — Zurich's Court-Linked Learning Programme for Domestic Violence Perpetrators · Switzerland Mandatory Equal Pay Analysis — Revised Gender Equality Act 2020 (Art. 13 GEA) · Pro Senectute Digital Seniors – National Digital Skills Programme for Older Adults (Switzerland)
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Efficiency +31 pts 62 here · 32 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection +26 pts 73 here · 47 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +25 pts 79 here · 54 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy +22 pts 60 here · 38 average
Sustainability / continuity +19 pts 97 here · 78 average
Evidence of impact / measured results +18 pts 75 here · 57 average
Impact on gender equality +18 pts 88 here · 70 average
Evaluation evidence +18 pts 67 here · 49 average
Governance, certification & transferability +11 pts 75 here · 64 average
Evaluated outcomes +9 pts 88 here · 78 average
Effectiveness +9 pts 75 here · 66 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +9 pts 57 here · 48 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +8 pts 82 here · 74 average
Weaknesses
Inclusiveness / equity -20 pts 23 here · 43 average
Evidence of learning impact -20 pts 7 here · 26 average
Equity & inclusion -23 pts 27 here · 50 average
Curator validation -48 pts 25 here · 73 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Switzerland. 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
Swiss Pathogen Surveillance Platform (SPSP) — AI-Powered National Genomic Epidemic Surveillance · 93
Schweizer Accessibility-Studie — Two Decades of Independent Swiss Digital Accessibility Measurement · 92
Switzerland Mandatory Equal Pay Analysis — Revised Gender Equality Act 2020 (Art. 13 GEA) · 89
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Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in Switzerland concentrates — each city has its own evidence profile.
Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 3 other places
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- 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
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- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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- 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
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- 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