What works in Faroe Islands
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Evidence snapshot for Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands have achieved 97.6% internet penetration via undersea cables, yet face challenges completing fibre-to-home rollout, with over one-third of ~10,500 physically laid connections remaining inactive by mid-2026. To reverse a decade of youth outmigration (2004–2013), the government combined undersea tunnels with paid parental leave and subsidised childcare, achieving population growth of 1.3% year-on-year by 2023. However, despite formal gender-neutral leave policy, fathers use only ~4 of 52 available parental-leave weeks while mothers use ~48, a gap the Gender Equality Commission attributes to insufficient wage replacement.
Drawn from: The Faroe Islands' Undersea-Cable Lifeline — High Internet Reach Alongside a Stalled Domestic Fibre Rollout · Faroese Parental Leave Reform & the Gender Equality Commission · Tunnels, Childcare and Trust: How the Faroe Islands Reversed a Decade of Youth Outmigration
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +51 pts 100 here · 49 average
Curator validation +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Inclusiveness / equity +24 pts 67 here · 43 average
Evaluated outcomes +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Achievement / evidence +13 pts 100 here · 87 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Evidence of impact / measured results +10 pts 67 here · 57 average
Weaknesses
Transferability / replicability -10 pts 50 here · 60 average
Sustainability -11 pts 67 here · 78 average
Demonstrated reach -26 pts 50 here · 76 average
Scalability -29 pts 33 here · 62 average
Efficiency -32 pts 0 here · 32 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -40 pts 33 here · 74 average
Effectiveness -66 pts 0 here · 66 average
Impact on gender equality -70 pts 0 here · 70 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Faroe Islands. 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
Faroese Parental Leave Reform & the Gender Equality Commission · 63
Tunnels, Childcare and Trust: How the Faroe Islands Reversed a Decade of Youth Outmigration · 52
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Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in Faroe Islands 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
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- 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