What works in North Macedonia
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Evidence snapshot for North Macedonia
North Macedonia has pursued three distinct policy interventions with mixed to positive results. A legal 40% gender quota for candidate lists has failed to guarantee proportional outcomes—women's parliamentary seats dropped from 42.5% in 2024 to 39.2% in 2025, below the legal threshold, showing that candidate quotas alone do not prevent parties from placing women in less winnable positions. Media-literacy training for pensioners delivered by the Institute of Communication Studies has achieved measurable impact, with over 500 trained retirees scoring 6–12% higher on disinformation-identification tests than untrained peers. The state Fund for Innovation and Technological Development has scaled significantly, growing its annual budget 45-fold from under $400,000 to over $18 million by 2021, co-financing 800+ SME and start-up projects worth over €100 million, including the documented case of Pixyle.ai, which leveraged an €80,000 grant to raise €1 million in venture capital and triple its workforce.
Drawn from: North Macedonia's 40% Candidate Quota — A Legal Target Meeting a Declining Outcome (2015-2025) · Use Facts: Disinformation-Resilience Training for Pensioners · FITD — North Macedonia's Government Innovation Fund Turning Grants into VC-Backed Startups · FITR — North Macedonia's Fund for Innovation and Technological Development · Prespa Lake Integrated Ecosystem Management — Transboundary Watershed Restoration (North Macedonia) · Otvoreni Podatoci — North Macedonia's National Open Data Portal · North Macedonia's Ministry–Brainster Memorandum Brings AI Into Every Secondary-School Subject · Vezilka National AI Centre — Skopje, North Macedonia
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +55 pts 100 here · 45 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +50 pts 100 here · 50 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Curator validation +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Impact on gender equality +20 pts 100 here · 80 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +16 pts 67 here · 50 average
Evaluated outcomes +16 pts 100 here · 84 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy +13 pts 50 here · 37 average
Achievement / evidence +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Weaknesses
Inclusiveness / equity -9 pts 33 here · 42 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -9 pts 67 here · 76 average
Sustainability (ongoing) -12 pts 67 here · 78 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value -14 pts 44 here · 59 average
Transferability / replicability -16 pts 43 here · 59 average
Equity & inclusion -19 pts 33 here · 52 average
Scalability beyond pilot -22 pts 42 here · 64 average
Evidence of learning impact -28 pts 0 here · 28 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -31 pts 0 here · 31 average
Innovation level -31 pts 32 here · 63 average
Governance, capability & sustainability -31 pts 33 here · 64 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -32 pts 22 here · 54 average
Efficiency -44 pts 0 here · 44 average
Effectiveness -77 pts 0 here · 77 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: North Macedonia. 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
North Macedonia's 40% Candidate Quota — A Legal Target Meeting a Declining Outcome (2015-2025) · 78
Use Facts: Disinformation-Resilience Training for Pensioners · 68
FITD — North Macedonia's Government Innovation Fund Turning Grants into VC-Backed Startups · 57
FITR — North Macedonia's Fund for Innovation and Technological Development · 57
Prespa Lake Integrated Ecosystem Management — Transboundary Watershed Restoration (North Macedonia) · 53
Otvoreni Podatoci — North Macedonia's National Open Data Portal · 52
North Macedonia's Ministry–Brainster Memorandum Brings AI Into Every Secondary-School Subject · 40
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 North Macedonia 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
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
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