What works in Guinea-Bissau
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Evidence snapshot for Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau has pursued conservation and development initiatives with mixed results. The Community-Based Avoided Deforestation Project across 181,200 hectares has issued 1.8 million carbon credits and channels 30% of revenue to communities, though an independent evaluation found forest-loss reductions but no statistically significant protective effect for mangroves specifically. The Bijagos Archipelago, designated a World Heritage Site in July 2025, protects Africa's largest green-turtle nesting ground (7,000–29,000 nests annually on Poilao island alone, ~5% of global nesting) through both customary taboo and formal management. Meanwhile, gender parity efforts have faltered: the 2018 Parity Law mandating 36% women on candidate lists and appointed bodies resulted in only 9.8% women in the 2023 elections, down from 13.7% in 2019, demonstrating that quotas without enforcement mechanisms fail to shift outcomes.
Drawn from: Community-Based Avoided Deforestation Project — Cacheu & Cantanhez National Parks (Guinea-Bissau) · InnovaLab GW — Guinea-Bissau's Pioneer Start-up Incubator · Bolama-Bijagos - Customary Taboo and UNESCO Statute Together Protect Africa's Largest Green-Turtle Nesting Ground (Guinea-Bissau) · 2018 Parity Law and Its Unmet 36% Quota — Guinea-Bissau · Orange Digital Center Guinea-Bissau
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +40 pts 67 here · 27 average
Curator validation +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Evaluated outcomes +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Governance, certification & transferability +20 pts 83 here · 64 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +19 pts 67 here · 48 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Evidence of impact / measured results +10 pts 67 here · 57 average
Weaknesses
Innovation level -8 pts 53 here · 62 average
Inclusiveness / equity -10 pts 33 here · 43 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Sustainability -22 pts 56 here · 78 average
Transferability / replicability -27 pts 33 here · 60 average
Scalability -29 pts 33 here · 62 average
Efficiency -32 pts 0 here · 32 average
Evaluation evidence -49 pts 0 here · 49 average
Effectiveness -66 pts 0 here · 66 average
Impact on gender equality -70 pts 0 here · 70 average
Documented learning -74 pts 0 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach -76 pts 0 here · 76 average
Achievement / evidence -87 pts 0 here · 87 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Guinea-Bissau. 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
Community-Based Avoided Deforestation Project — Cacheu & Cantanhez National Parks (Guinea-Bissau) · 53
InnovaLab GW — Guinea-Bissau's Pioneer Start-up Incubator · 52
2018 Parity Law and Its Unmet 36% Quota — Guinea-Bissau · 37
Orange Digital Center Guinea-Bissau · 28
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 Guinea-Bissau 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
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