What works in Comoros
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Evidence snapshot for Comoros
Comoros' economy is heavily dependent on three cash crops—vanilla, clove, and ylang-ylang—generating roughly 80% of export revenue, with women-led fair-trade initiatives like Vaniacom now channeling trade premiums into farmer welfare across about 150 smallholders (80% women). Telecom market liberalisation supported by the World Bank has expanded mobile coverage and broadband access, though internet penetration remains low at 27.3% as of 2023. Conservation agreements in Anjouan are restoring degraded forest and water catchments through direct payments to farmers, with a pilot phase protecting 429 hectares and raising seedling survival from 68% to 90%. Across these three sectors—agriculture, telecoms, and conservation—the evidence shows Comoros building institutional models to address connectivity, rural livelihoods, and environmental degradation, though absolute outcomes remain modest relative to the scale of national challenges.
Drawn from: Telecom Market Liberalisation & Connectivity Subsidies — Union of the Comoros · Vaniacom — Women-Led Fair-Trade Organic Vanilla Cooperative Network · Dahari Conservation Agreements — Farmer-Held Forest & Water Catchment Restoration (Anjouan, Comoros) · DeAfrica's 'Your Journey in the AI Economy' Course Reaches Comorian Learners in a 45-Country Pan-African Cohort
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +55 pts 100 here · 45 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Sustainability (ongoing) +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Impact on gender equality +20 pts 100 here · 80 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +17 pts 67 here · 50 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +16 pts 67 here · 50 average
Equity & inclusion +14 pts 67 here · 52 average
Achievement / evidence +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Weaknesses
Transferability / replicability -26 pts 33 here · 60 average
Evidence of learning impact -28 pts 0 here · 28 average
Efficiency -44 pts 0 here · 44 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -48 pts 0 here · 48 average
Curator validation -74 pts 0 here · 74 average
Effectiveness -77 pts 0 here · 77 average
Evaluated outcomes -85 pts 0 here · 85 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Comoros. 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
Telecom Market Liberalisation & Connectivity Subsidies — Union of the Comoros · 92
Vaniacom — Women-Led Fair-Trade Organic Vanilla Cooperative Network · 48
Dahari Conservation Agreements — Farmer-Held Forest & Water Catchment Restoration (Anjouan, Comoros) · 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 Comoros 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
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
Abolition of Chhaupadi — Ending Menstrual Exile Huts in Nepal's Far- and Mid-Western Districts · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Guyana's One-Third Gender Candidate Quota — Two Decades of Sustained Representation · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- 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