What works in Spain
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Evidence snapshot for Spain
Spain has implemented several evidence-backed reforms and digital innovations across social protection, justice, accessibility and broadband. Spain's Equal Non-Transferable Paternity Leave Reform extended fully paid paternity leave from 2 to 16 weeks between 2017–2021, increasing father uptake by roughly 20 percentage points, with 75% now taking leave simultaneously at birth. Spain's Organic Law 1/2004 created 106 specialised gender-violence courts that handled 2 million complaints and secured 700,000 convictions over 15 years. Beyond legislation, Spain has developed open-source digital tools—EVA Facial Mouse for hands-free accessibility (8.7/10 average rating from 20,000+ users) and ARASAAC for augmentative communication—and guifi.net, a volunteer-built network with over 37,000 active nodes serving rural Catalonia since 2004.
Drawn from: Spain's Equal Non-Transferable Paternity Leave Reform (2017–2021) · Spain's Organic Law 1/2004 — Integrated Protection Against Gender Violence (LOVG) · EVA Facial Mouse — Co-Designed Head-Tracking App Freeing Hands-Free Access to Android for People with Motor Disabilities · guifi.net – Community-Owned Broadband Network for Rural Catalonia · ARASAAC — Aragon's Free Open Pictogram Library for Augmentative Communication and Cognitive Accessibility · Spain's Registro Retributivo — Mandatory Pay Registers and Equal Pay Audits (Real Decreto 902/2020) · Innovatia 8.3 · Observatorio de Accesibilidad Web — Spain's 15-Year National Monitor of Public-Sector Digital Accessibility
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Efficiency +28 pts 59 here · 32 average
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced +21 pts 27 here · 6 average
Evaluated outcomes +15 pts 93 here · 78 average
Effectiveness +13 pts 79 here · 66 average
Inclusiveness / equity +12 pts 55 here · 43 average
Weaknesses
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -11 pts 37 here · 48 average
Equity & inclusion -12 pts 38 here · 50 average
Evaluation evidence -34 pts 15 here · 49 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Spain. 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
Spain's Equal Non-Transferable Paternity Leave Reform (2017–2021) · 96
Spain's Organic Law 1/2004 — Integrated Protection Against Gender Violence (LOVG) · 96
guifi.net – Community-Owned Broadband Network for Rural Catalonia · 96
Spain's Registro Retributivo — Mandatory Pay Registers and Equal Pay Audits (Real Decreto 902/2020) · 89
Innovatia 8.3 · 89
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 Spain concentrates — each city has its own evidence profile.
Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
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
Read Along (Bolo) — Google's AI reading tutor for low-literacy children in India · fit 89/100
- Matches your scale
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Pikin Tab — Imagine Worldwide's Solar-Powered Tablet Learning Programme in Sierra Leone · fit 89/100
- Matches your scale
- Backed by strong evidence
- 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
SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
Already adopted in 4 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