What works in Sri Lanka
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Evidence snapshot for Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's IT-BPM sector has experienced substantial growth, with SLASSCOM helping expand the industry from 170 firms and 33,700 jobs in 2007 to over 680 companies and roughly 175,000 workers by 2025, generating about $2 billion in exports. In higher education and innovation, Sri Lanka's AHEAD project built University Business Linkage Cells across 15 state universities, producing 228 patent applications, 77 licence agreements and 42 market-ready products between 2019–2023. On women's political participation, a 2016 quota law raised women's local-council representation from under 2% to roughly 23% after the 2018 elections, though compliance weakened to approximately 11% by 2025 due to legal exemptions. Evidence on business training shows ILO's SIYB programme had mixed results: training alone did not raise profits for existing subsistence enterprises, though training combined with cash grants produced temporary profit gains for eight months.
Drawn from: SLASSCOM — Sri Lanka's National IT-BPM Chamber Driving Sector-Wide Company Growth · SIYB Business Training for Women Entrepreneurs — Colombo & Kandy's Two-Track Randomised Trial · University Business Linkage (UBL) Cells — Sri Lanka's AHEAD Technology-Transfer Network · 25% Women's Quota in Local Government Elections · Nenasala Telecentre Network · Colombo Wetland Management Strategy — Ramsar Wetland City Flood Buffer · Pubudu — Deep-Learning Screening for Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and Dyscalculia in Sri Lanka · NextGen Girls in Technology — Sri Lanka's UNESCO-Prize AI and ICT Curriculum for Disadvantaged Girls
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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
Curator validation +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Effectiveness +23 pts 100 here · 77 average
Impact on gender equality +20 pts 100 here · 80 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +16 pts 67 here · 51 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy +16 pts 53 here · 37 average
Evaluated outcomes +15 pts 100 here · 85 average
Equity & inclusion +14 pts 67 here · 52 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value +12 pts 70 here · 59 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +10 pts 60 here · 50 average
Achievement / evidence +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Weaknesses
Inclusiveness / equity -9 pts 33 here · 42 average
Governance, certification & transferability -10 pts 54 here · 64 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -14 pts 33 here · 48 average
Demonstrated reach -26 pts 50 here · 76 average
Sustainability (ongoing) -30 pts 48 here · 78 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -32 pts 22 here · 54 average
Efficiency -44 pts 0 here · 44 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding -91 pts 0 here · 91 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Sri Lanka. 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
SLASSCOM — Sri Lanka's National IT-BPM Chamber Driving Sector-Wide Company Growth · 76
SIYB Business Training for Women Entrepreneurs — Colombo & Kandy's Two-Track Randomised Trial · 76
University Business Linkage (UBL) Cells — Sri Lanka's AHEAD Technology-Transfer Network · 76
25% Women's Quota in Local Government Elections · 74
Nenasala Telecentre Network · 72
Colombo Wetland Management Strategy — Ramsar Wetland City Flood Buffer · 67
Pubudu — Deep-Learning Screening for Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and Dyscalculia in Sri Lanka · 67
NextGen Girls in Technology — Sri Lanka's UNESCO-Prize AI and ICT Curriculum for Disadvantaged Girls · 60
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 Sri Lanka 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
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
Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · 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