What works in Ecuador
11 evaluated practices · All catalogues
Evidence snapshot for Ecuador
Ecuador has implemented several significant evidence-based reforms across governance, digital access, education, and environmental protection. Gender parity electoral reform mandated in 2020 increased women in the National Assembly from ~30% to 43.1% by 2023, while a national network of 888 community infocentres and megainfocentros reached ~5.4 million beneficiaries across 63% of parishes, with 80% located in rural communities. In higher education, an AI-adaptive math remediation platform (ALEKS) delivered to over 11,400 first-year college students achieved a 0.28 standard deviation gain in math test scores at $18 per student. The evidence also documents AI-powered tax risk scoring that identified 60,000 previously unregistered taxpayers and FONAG, a water protection fund protecting 55,000 hectares of páramo for 2.7 million residents.
Drawn from: Ecuador's 'Paridad y Alternancia' Electoral Reform — Mandatory 50/50 Alternating Gender Parity in All Candidate Lists (2020) · Red de Infocentros Comunitarios – Ecuador's National Rural Community Digital Network · SENESCYT–World Bank ALEKS Math-Remediation RCT — National Digital Personalized Learning for Ecuador's First-Year College Students · Ecuador SRI — Sistema Falcon: AI-Powered Tax Risk Scoring · FONAG — Quito Water Protection Fund (Ecuador) · Ecuador Socio Bosque Conservation Programme · Pimampiro Water Fund — One of the World's First Municipal Watershed PES Schemes (Ecuador) · ETAPA's Tariff-Funded Protection of Parque Nacional Cajas (Cuenca, Ecuador)
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +0.67
Efficiency +0.483
Documented learning +0.276
Demonstrated reach +0.265
Curator validation +0.25
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +0.24
Effectiveness +0.189
Sustainability (ongoing) +0.186
Evidence of learning impact +0.173
Impact on gender equality +0.173
Governance, certification & transferability +0.163
Evaluated outcomes +0.163
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +0.098
Weaknesses
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -0.127
Transparency, fairness & accountability -0.214
Transparency, ethics & data protection -0.251
Teacher capability & pedagogy -0.313
Top good practices here
Red de Infocentros Comunitarios – Ecuador's National Rural Community Digital Network · 92
Ecuador SRI — Sistema Falcon: AI-Powered Tax Risk Scoring · 60
FONAG — Quito Water Protection Fund (Ecuador) · 60
Ecuador Socio Bosque Conservation Programme · 60
Pimampiro Water Fund — One of the World's First Municipal Watershed PES Schemes (Ecuador) · 53
ETAPA's Tariff-Funded Protection of Parque Nacional Cajas (Cuenca, Ecuador) · 53
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