What works in Dominican Republic
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Evidence snapshot for Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic has pursued several significant policy reforms with mixed outcomes. Electoral gender quotas have shown strong results, with women's representation in the Chamber of Deputies rising from 11.7% before 1997 to 36.8% by May 2024 under progressively tightened candidate requirements, though Senate representation remains much lower at 13% due to lack of enforcement. A mandatory web-accessibility standard (NORTIC B2) has been in place since 2016 with documented compliance cases, though comprehensive compliance data across all government websites is not publicly available. In microfinance training and digital inclusion, evidence shows more limited effectiveness: a simplified financial-training course for microentrepreneurs outperformed standard training, while a national school digital-inclusion programme (República Digital) delivered only 23–43% of its device targets before dissolution in 2021.
Drawn from: Dominican Republic Electoral Gender Quota System — From 25% Candidacy Requirement to 40/60 Parity (1997–2024) · NORTIC B2 — The Dominican Republic's Mandatory Web-Accessibility Standard for the Whole State · Keeping It Simple — Banco ADOPEM's Rule-of-Thumb Financial Training for Santo Domingo Microentrepreneurs · República Digital — National School Digital Inclusion Programme · SAPR — Dominican Republic's AI-Flagged Procurement Alert System · ProDominicana — Coordinating the Dominican Republic's Export and Investment Drive · UNICEF & MINERD — AI-Powered Accessible Digital Textbooks Pilot for Students with Disabilities in the Dominican Republic · ADOPEM's Rule-of-Thumb Financial Literacy Training for Santo Domingo Microentrepreneurs
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +51 pts 100 here · 49 average
Impact on gender equality +29 pts 100 here · 71 average
Equity & inclusion +28 pts 78 here · 50 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection +20 pts 67 here · 47 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +19 pts 67 here · 48 average
Achievement / evidence +12 pts 100 here · 88 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Inclusiveness / equity +11 pts 53 here · 43 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value +9 pts 67 here · 57 average
Weaknesses
Transparency, fairness & accountability -9 pts 44 here · 54 average
Governance, certification & transferability -10 pts 53 here · 64 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -14 pts 60 here · 74 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Sustainability -15 pts 63 here · 78 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -15 pts 22 here · 37 average
Effectiveness -18 pts 50 here · 68 average
Demonstrated reach -26 pts 50 here · 76 average
Evaluated outcomes -29 pts 50 here · 79 average
Efficiency -33 pts 0 here · 33 average
Curator validation -73 pts 0 here · 73 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Dominican Republic. 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
NORTIC B2 — The Dominican Republic's Mandatory Web-Accessibility Standard for the Whole State · 72
República Digital — National School Digital Inclusion Programme · 68
SAPR — Dominican Republic's AI-Flagged Procurement Alert System · 67
ProDominicana — Coordinating the Dominican Republic's Export and Investment Drive · 67
ADOPEM's Rule-of-Thumb Financial Literacy Training for Santo Domingo Microentrepreneurs · 57
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Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in Dominican Republic 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