What works in Cabo Verde
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Evidence snapshot for Cabo Verde
Cabo Verde has pursued a multi-faceted development agenda spanning governance, education, and digital economy. Lei da Paridade increased women's National Assembly representation from 23.6% to 38.9% following its 2019 implementation, while Programa Mundu Novu improved secondary school student-to-computer ratios from 208:1 to 65:1 by 2009. More recently, TechPark CV has scaled rapidly to host 23 companies and employ 311 young professionals across its Praia campus within 18 months of opening, alongside training programmes that reached 2,769 people by Q1 2025. Fogo e Brava Innovation Lab graduated 27 of 40 entrepreneurs and channelled seed capital to seven ventures, though longer-term outcome data remains limited as the lab only opened in 2025.
Drawn from: Lei da Paridade — Cabo Verde's Gender Parity Law for Elected Office · Programa Mundu Novu – National ICT-in-Education Digital Inclusion Programme · Fogo e Brava Innovation Lab — Cabo Verde's First Multi-Municipal Regional Incubator · TechPark CV — Cabo Verde's National Digital Economy Hub · Weblab — Cabo Verde's Nationwide School Tech Labs, and Their Unresolved 2022 Shutdown · Cabo Verde's Post-Independence National Afforestation Programme — From 3,000 to Over 90,000 Hectares · Team Stellar — Cabo Verde's 1st National AI Competition Selects Its First-Ever IOAI Delegation · Code the Future – Cabo Verde Rising — SheCode.ai's National AI and Coding Programme for Secondary School Girls
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Efficiency +68 pts 100 here · 32 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
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Evaluated outcomes +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +19 pts 67 here · 48 average
Equity & inclusion +17 pts 67 here · 50 average
Achievement / evidence +13 pts 100 here · 87 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Weaknesses
Governance, certification & transferability -8 pts 56 here · 64 average
Innovation level -8 pts 53 here · 62 average
Inclusiveness / equity -10 pts 33 here · 43 average
Evidence of learning impact -10 pts 17 here · 26 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -10 pts 17 here · 27 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -20 pts 33 here · 54 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -21 pts 17 here · 38 average
Sustainability (ongoing) -22 pts 56 here · 78 average
Evidence of impact / measured results -24 pts 33 here · 57 average
Documented learning -24 pts 50 here · 74 average
Transferability / replicability -27 pts 33 here · 60 average
Scalability -29 pts 33 here · 62 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -47 pts 0 here · 47 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Cabo Verde. 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
Lei da Paridade — Cabo Verde's Gender Parity Law for Elected Office · 96
Programa Mundu Novu – National ICT-in-Education Digital Inclusion Programme · 68
Fogo e Brava Innovation Lab — Cabo Verde's First Multi-Municipal Regional Incubator · 62
TechPark CV — Cabo Verde's National Digital Economy Hub · 52
Weblab — Cabo Verde's Nationwide School Tech Labs, and Their Unresolved 2022 Shutdown · 52
Cabo Verde's Post-Independence National Afforestation Programme — From 3,000 to Over 90,000 Hectares · 47
Team Stellar — Cabo Verde's 1st National AI Competition Selects Its First-Ever IOAI Delegation · 33
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 Cabo Verde 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