What works in Egypt
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Evidence snapshot for Egypt
Egypt has implemented several large-scale evidence-backed social and economic programmes. The Takaful and Karama cash-transfer scheme reached 4.67 million households (75% of cardholders women) and achieved an 8.4% rise in household consumption, a 12-percentage-point reduction in poverty vulnerability, and 9–21-percentage-point gains in school enrolment. Digital skills and entrepreneurship initiatives include Helm Academy, which trained approximately 8,000 people with a 40% six-month employment rate, and Qodwa.Tech, which has reached over 43,000 women entrepreneurs across all 27 governorates. Evidence on employment and business outcomes comes primarily from quasi-experimental and descriptive evaluations rather than randomised trials, except for digital-literacy training for smallholder farmers, where an RCT demonstrated that classroom training raised app adoption by 20 percentage points.
Drawn from: Takaful and Karama Cash Transfer Programme · Helm Academy — Accessible Vocational Training Platform Co-Staffed by Persons with Disabilities · Flat6Labs Cairo — Egypt's IFC-Backed Seed Accelerator · Digital-Literacy Training for Mahsoly App Adoption Among Smallholder Farmers · Qodwa.Tech — Egypt's National Generative-AI Skills Tracks for Women Entrepreneurs · ITU–EY AI Skills Accelerator for Girls — Egypt University of Informatics, Cairo · NAFEZA — Egypt's AI-Powered National Single Window for Trade Facilitation and Customs Risk Management · SCORE Egypt — ILO–FEI Pilot for SME Productivity and Working Conditions
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Efficiency +56 pts 100 here · 44 average
Curator validation +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Effectiveness +23 pts 100 here · 77 average
Impact on gender equality +20 pts 100 here · 80 average
Evaluated outcomes +15 pts 100 here · 85 average
Evaluation evidence +15 pts 60 here · 45 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection +14 pts 61 here · 48 average
Achievement / evidence +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Equity & inclusion +9 pts 61 here · 52 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Weaknesses
Innovation level -9 pts 54 here · 63 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -9 pts 67 here · 76 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -20 pts 11 here · 31 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -20 pts 33 here · 54 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value -21 pts 38 here · 59 average
Inclusiveness / equity -29 pts 13 here · 42 average
Documented learning -34 pts 40 here · 74 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Egypt. 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
Takaful and Karama Cash Transfer Programme · 96
Helm Academy — Accessible Vocational Training Platform Co-Staffed by Persons with Disabilities · 92
Flat6Labs Cairo — Egypt's IFC-Backed Seed Accelerator · 76
ScribeMe — Blind-Founded AI Visual-Description App from Cairo, Now Used in 140 Countries · 76
Digital-Literacy Training for Mahsoly App Adoption Among Smallholder Farmers · 72
Qodwa.Tech — Egypt's National Generative-AI Skills Tracks for Women Entrepreneurs · 67
Mahara-Tech — Egypt's National Free AI Literacy Platform for the Arabic-Speaking World · 60
ITU–EY AI Skills Accelerator for Girls — Egypt University of Informatics, Cairo · 60
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Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in Egypt concentrates — each city has its own evidence profile.
Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
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
Stadtidee Aarau — Switzerland's First City-Wide Participatory Budget Using the Method of Equal Shares · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
ATD-2 to TFDM — NASA's Machine-Learning Airport Scheduler Saves Over a Million Gallons of Jet Fuel · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Ushahidi — Kenya's Crowdsourced Crisis-Mapping Platform · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Smart City Wien Framework Strategy · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
Already adopted in 3 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