What works in Gambia
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Evidence snapshot for Gambia
The Gambia has implemented several youth employment and entrepreneurship programmes: the Youth Empowerment Project trained 5,350 young people and supported 4,600 with advisory services and mini-grants, contributing an estimated 4,300 jobs, while Startup Incubator Gambia has incubated 62 entrepreneurs and helped establish 100+ businesses supporting 300+ jobs with a reported 90% survival rate. In technology and digital skills, Give1 Project's All Girls Tech Camps trained 500+ girls aged 13-20 in coding and web design across five schools since 2015. The country has also launched NIMS, a biometric national identity system with instant card issuance to replace paper-based registration, though the evidence on these practices is largely self-reported and no independent third-party evaluations of employment or income outcomes have been published for most initiatives.
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 · Startup Incubator Gambia (SIG) — Kanifing's Business Incubation and Accelerator Hub · 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 · AIMS Satellite Centre — The Gambia and AIMS Senegal Launch a Postgraduate Mathematics, Data-Science and AI Hub · Mindspark Adaptive Learning Pilot Surfaces Pre-Service Teacher Gaps — and a Gender Access Gap — at The Gambia College
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +51 pts 100 here · 49 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +40 pts 67 here · 27 average
Curator validation +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Evaluated outcomes +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Governance, certification & transferability +20 pts 83 here · 64 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +13 pts 67 here · 54 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +10 pts 83 here · 74 average
Weaknesses
Scalability & sustainability -10 pts 52 here · 62 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -14 pts 33 here · 48 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Evidence of learning impact -18 pts 8 here · 26 average
Transferability / replicability -18 pts 42 here · 60 average
Innovation level -20 pts 42 here · 62 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -22 pts 25 here · 47 average
Efficiency -32 pts 0 here · 32 average
Effectiveness -66 pts 0 here · 66 average
Impact on gender equality -70 pts 0 here · 70 average
Achievement / evidence -87 pts 0 here · 87 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
Startup Incubator Gambia (SIG) — Kanifing's Business Incubation and Accelerator Hub · 52
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
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