What works in Gambia
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Evidence snapshot for Gambia
The Gambia has invested in youth economic opportunity through targeted programmes: Give1 Project's All Girls Tech Camps trained 500+ girls aged 13–20 in ICT and entrepreneurship across five schools since 2015, while the EU-funded Youth Empowerment Project trained 5,350 young Gambians and supported 4,600 with entrepreneurship services and mini-grants, reportedly generating 4,300 jobs from 2017 to 2022. On identity infrastructure, the country launched NIMS, a biometric national ID system, in June 2026 to replace paper-based registration. On gender-based harm, the Gambia criminalised FGM in 2015, but enforcement has been weak—only two prosecutions and one conviction in the law's first decade—and prevalence fell only marginally from 74.9% to 72.6%. None of these practices include independent third-party evaluation of employment or income outcomes for the tech and entrepreneurship programmes.
Drawn from: Give1 Project – All Girls Tech Camps · Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) — The Gambia's EU-Funded Mini-Grant and Training Scheme for Young Entrepreneurs · NIMS — The Gambia's Real-Time National Identity System with Biometric Deduplication · Criminalising FGM — The Gambia's Women's (Amendment) Act 2015 and Its Enforcement Gap · Gambia River Mangrove REDD+ Restoration — Verified Carbon Unit Purchase Agreement with Orsted · Mindspark Adaptive Learning Pilot Surfaces Pre-Service Teacher Gaps — and a Gender Access Gap — at The Gambia College · The Gambia Digital Leap — Africa Missions Global's Free AI Education App and School Writing Competition · Commonwealth 'Train the Trainers' AI & Python Workshop — University of The Gambia
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +55 pts 100 here · 45 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +36 pts 67 here · 31 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Curator validation +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Inclusiveness / equity +25 pts 67 here · 42 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Governance, certification & transferability +19 pts 83 here · 64 average
Evaluated outcomes +16 pts 100 here · 84 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +13 pts 67 here · 54 average
Sustainability +11 pts 89 here · 78 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Weaknesses
Evidence of impact / measured results -9 pts 50 here · 59 average
Equity & inclusion -11 pts 42 here · 52 average
Scalability & sustainability -14 pts 50 here · 64 average
Transferability / replicability -15 pts 44 here · 59 average
Innovation level -16 pts 47 here · 63 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -17 pts 33 here · 50 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -17 pts 33 here · 51 average
Evidence of learning impact -20 pts 8 here · 28 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -22 pts 25 here · 48 average
Efficiency -44 pts 0 here · 44 average
Effectiveness -77 pts 0 here · 77 average
Impact on gender equality -80 pts 0 here · 80 average
Achievement / evidence -91 pts 0 here · 91 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Gambia. 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
Give1 Project – All Girls Tech Camps · 92
NIMS — The Gambia's Real-Time National Identity System with Biometric Deduplication · 53
Criminalising FGM — The Gambia's Women's (Amendment) Act 2015 and Its Enforcement Gap · 48
Gambia River Mangrove REDD+ Restoration — Verified Carbon Unit Purchase Agreement with Orsted · 47
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 Gambia 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
SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Already adopted in 4 other places
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
Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- 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
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