What works in Sri Lanka
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Evidence snapshot for Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has invested in several evidence-based development initiatives across health, technology, and entrepreneurship. A national assistive technology assessment found that 35.2% of respondents reported functional difficulties, 18.1% used AT, and 16.4% had unmet AT need, leading to two policy recommendations being adopted within a year. The IT-BPM sector grew dramatically from 170 firms and 33,700 jobs in 2007 to 680+ companies and roughly 175,000 workers by 2025, generating about $2 billion in exports. University Business Linkage Cells supported by the World Bank generated 228 patent applications, 77 licence agreements, and 42 market-ready products between 2019 and 2023, though business training programmes for women entrepreneurs showed mixed results, with sustained profit gains only when combined with cash grants.
Drawn from: Sri Lanka's National Assistive Technology Assessment — A 6,100-Person Survey That Already Shaped Policy · 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
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Curator validation +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Evaluation evidence +26 pts 75 here · 49 average
Evaluated outcomes +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +19 pts 67 here · 48 average
Equity & inclusion +17 pts 67 here · 50 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy +15 pts 53 here · 38 average
Achievement / evidence +13 pts 100 here · 87 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +9 pts 57 here · 48 average
Weaknesses
Transparency, ethics & data protection -14 pts 33 here · 47 average
Effectiveness -16 pts 50 here · 66 average
Sustainability (ongoing) -16 pts 62 here · 78 average
Impact on gender equality -20 pts 50 here · 70 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -29 pts 25 here · 54 average
Efficiency -32 pts 0 here · 32 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding -39 pts 50 here · 89 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
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
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