What works in Ecuador
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Evidence snapshot for Ecuador
Ecuador has implemented significant democratic and social inclusion reforms across multiple sectors. Gender parity electoral reform increased women's representation in the National Assembly from ~30% to 43.1% by 2023, while Banco Pichincha co-designed accessible mobile banking with blind customers, reaching 2,000+ accessible-mode activations. The country operates 888 community infocentres and 25 megainfocentros serving ~5.4 million beneficiaries with free internet and ICT training across 63% of all parishes, primarily in rural areas, and has launched participatory governance and public safety initiatives such as GeoCitizen GIS land-use planning and Bájale al Acoso sexual harassment reporting on public transport.
Drawn from: Ecuador's 'Paridad y Alternancia' Electoral Reform — Mandatory 50/50 Alternating Gender Parity in All Candidate Lists (2020) · Banco Pichincha's Co-Designed Accessible Mobile Banking — Blind Customers Guiding App Development in Ecuador · Red de Infocentros Comunitarios – Ecuador's National Rural Community Digital Network · GeoCitizen — Participatory GIS Land-Use Planning for Quito's Ilaló Mountain · Bájale al Acoso — Free SMS Harassment Reporting on Quito's Public Transport · AEI — Ecuador's Public-Private-Academic Alliance for Entrepreneurship and Innovation · Ecuador's WCAG 2.0 AA Web-Accessibility Mandate — a Binding Law With Near-Zero Measured Compliance · SCE's AI Code of Ethics and AI Lab — Ecuador's First Public-Sector AI Governance Framework
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +51 pts 100 here · 49 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Achievement / evidence +13 pts 100 here · 87 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +13 pts 61 here · 48 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Weaknesses
Innovation level -8 pts 53 here · 62 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -9 pts 18 here · 27 average
Demonstrated reach -9 pts 67 here · 76 average
Scalability beyond pilot -12 pts 50 here · 62 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -14 pts 60 here · 74 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value -15 pts 42 here · 57 average
Effectiveness -16 pts 50 here · 66 average
Equity & inclusion -16 pts 33 here · 50 average
Curator validation -23 pts 50 here · 73 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -25 pts 13 here · 38 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Ecuador. 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
Red de Infocentros Comunitarios – Ecuador's National Rural Community Digital Network · 92
GeoCitizen — Participatory GIS Land-Use Planning for Quito's Ilaló Mountain · 86
Bájale al Acoso — Free SMS Harassment Reporting on Quito's Public Transport · 78
AEI — Ecuador's Public-Private-Academic Alliance for Entrepreneurship and Innovation · 71
Ecuador's WCAG 2.0 AA Web-Accessibility Mandate — a Binding Law With Near-Zero Measured Compliance · 68
SCE's AI Code of Ethics and AI Lab — Ecuador's First Public-Sector AI Governance Framework · 67
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Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in Ecuador 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