What works in Ethiopia
11 evaluated practices · All catalogues
Evidence snapshot for Ethiopia
Ethiopia has implemented several large-scale development programmes with measurable outcomes. Joint land certification with women's names on titles increased women's perceived tenure security to 22–30% in participating regions, compared to 4% where only household heads were certified, and a conditional asset transfer programme reduced child marriage among girls aged 10–14 to one-tenth the rate of controls while tripling school enrolment. The country has also scaled digital skills training, with 580,000 enrolled in a national coding initiative by March 2025, yielding 78,800 certifications and 12,875 remote jobs in four months, and pursued environmental restoration, regenerating 2,728 hectares of degraded hillsides while sequestering approximately 880,000 tonnes of CO2 over 30 years. These practices demonstrate progress in land rights, gender, employment, and conservation, though the evidence is strongest for land certification and environmental outcomes and does not capture long-term sustainability or scale-up effects.
Drawn from: Ethiopia's Joint Land Certification Programme for Women's Land Rights · Berhane Hewan — Conditional Asset Transfer to Delay Child Marriage · Five Million Ethiopian Coders Initiative – National Digital Skills Programme · Humbo Ethiopia Assisted Natural Regeneration Project · EthioTrees Dryland Restoration Project (Tigray, Ethiopia) · GlobeDock Academy — Offline AI Learning for Rural Ethiopian Secondary Students · Bale Mountains Eco-region REDD+ Project (Ethiopia) · Yegenew Sanitary Services Cooperative — Disability-Led Women's Enterprise in Addis Ababa
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +0.67
Equity & inclusion +0.443
Documented learning +0.276
Demonstrated reach +0.265
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +0.262
Effectiveness +0.189
Impact on gender equality +0.173
Scalability & sustainability +0.144
Innovation level +0.144
Governance, certification & transferability +0.139
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +0.129
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +0.098
Transparency, ethics & data protection +0.083
Weaknesses
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -0.082
Curator validation -0.083
Transferability / replicability -0.104
Teacher capability & pedagogy -0.147
Evaluated outcomes -0.17
Efficiency -0.184
Transparency, fairness & accountability -0.214
Sustainability (ongoing) -0.314
Top good practices here
Ethiopia's Joint Land Certification Programme for Women's Land Rights · 85
Berhane Hewan — Conditional Asset Transfer to Delay Child Marriage · 85
Five Million Ethiopian Coders Initiative – National Digital Skills Programme · 76
Humbo Ethiopia Assisted Natural Regeneration Project · 73
EthioTrees Dryland Restoration Project (Tigray, Ethiopia) · 67
GlobeDock Academy — Offline AI Learning for Rural Ethiopian Secondary Students · 67
Bale Mountains Eco-region REDD+ Project (Ethiopia) · 67
Yegenew Sanitary Services Cooperative — Disability-Led Women's Enterprise in Addis Ababa · 59
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