What works in Ireland
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Evidence snapshot for Ireland
Ireland has implemented multiple evidence-based policies to advance equality and protect vulnerable populations. Ireland's Gender Pay Gap Information Act 2021 created a mandatory reporting framework that revealed a mean gender pay gap of 12.6% and median of 8.37% among 500+ companies in the first disclosure cycle. Ireland Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Act 2012 conditioned state party funding on fielding at least 30% women candidates (raised to 40% in 2023), resulting in women's Dáil representation rising from 15.1% in 2011 to 25.3% in 2024. Coco's Law criminalized non-consensual image sharing and persistent online harassment, with nearly 100 prosecutions and over 1,000 complaints acted on since 2021. However, these practices document legislative and reporting outcomes rather than longer-term impacts on employment equity, political diversity beyond representation numbers, or victim recovery.
Drawn from: Ireland's Gender Pay Gap Information Act 2021 · Ireland Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Act 2012 — Gender Quota for Party Funding · DigiAcademy: Co-Designed Digital Literacy Platform for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities · Going for Growth · Coco's Law — Ireland's Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020 · Ireland's NDA Web Accessibility Monitoring — Public-Sector Error Rate Nearly Halves in a Year · Trading Online Voucher Scheme — E-Commerce Grants for Small Businesses · Revenue REAP — Ireland's AI risk engine for human-supervised tax-compliance targeting
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Efficiency +50 pts 81 here · 32 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +36 pts 83 here · 48 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection +24 pts 71 here · 47 average
Effectiveness +17 pts 83 here · 66 average
Sustainability +14 pts 92 here · 78 average
Governance, certification & transferability +13 pts 77 here · 64 average
Achievement / evidence +13 pts 100 here · 87 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +13 pts 67 here · 54 average
Documented learning +11 pts 86 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +10 pts 86 here · 76 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +10 pts 83 here · 74 average
Impact on gender equality +8 pts 78 here · 70 average
Weaknesses
Evaluated outcomes -11 pts 67 here · 78 average
Transferability / replicability -13 pts 47 here · 60 average
Evidence of learning impact -14 pts 12 here · 26 average
Evaluation evidence -20 pts 29 here · 49 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Ireland. 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
Ireland's Gender Pay Gap Information Act 2021 · 96
Ireland Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Act 2012 — Gender Quota for Party Funding · 96
DigiAcademy: Co-Designed Digital Literacy Platform for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities · 96
Going for Growth · 93
Coco's Law — Ireland's Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020 · 89
Ireland's NDA Web Accessibility Monitoring — Public-Sector Error Rate Nearly Halves in a Year · 88
Trading Online Voucher Scheme — E-Commerce Grants for Small Businesses · 88
Revenue REAP — Ireland's AI risk engine for human-supervised tax-compliance targeting · 87
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Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in Ireland concentrates — each city has its own evidence profile.
Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
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- 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
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- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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- 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