What works in Maldives
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Evidence snapshot for Maldives
The Maldives is pursuing digital transformation and climate resilience through initiatives like national digital ID and broadband expansion reaching 83.9% internet penetration and a Green Tax generating MVR 2.25bn annually for environmental protection, though only ~12% of Green Fund revenue was spent in 2025. The country has significantly increased women's political representation at the local level through a 33% reserved-seat quota that resulted in women winning 40% of council seats in 2021, though women remain excluded from council leadership roles. Immigration enforcement has been strengthened via a facial-recognition system that raised migrant-worker biometric registration from 13% to 98% and repatriated over 9,000 undocumented workers, reflecting the country's reliance on foreign labour in construction, tourism and fisheries.
Drawn from: Maldives' 33% Reserved-Seat Quota for Women in Local Councils (2019 Decentralisation Act Amendment) · Digital Maldives – National Digital ID and Connectivity for Climate-Resilient Public Services · MI ID Checker — Maldives' Facial-Recognition Tool for Identifying Undocumented Migrant Workers · Maldives Green Fund — Statutory Tourist Green Tax for Environmental Protection · Mianz College's BSc in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning — the Maldives' First Homegrown AI Degree · Girls to Code — Dhiraagu and Women in Tech Maldives' National Coding Programme · Maldives Floating City — An Untested Answer to Sea-Level Rise, Clouded by Controversy
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Curator validation +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Effectiveness +23 pts 100 here · 77 average
Impact on gender equality +20 pts 100 here · 80 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +17 pts 67 here · 50 average
Evaluated outcomes +15 pts 100 here · 85 average
Equity & inclusion +14 pts 67 here · 52 average
Achievement / evidence +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Weaknesses
Sustainability (ongoing) -12 pts 67 here · 78 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -17 pts 33 here · 51 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value -26 pts 33 here · 59 average
Transferability / replicability -26 pts 33 here · 60 average
Evidence of learning impact -28 pts 0 here · 28 average
Scalability & sustainability -30 pts 33 here · 64 average
Governance, certification & transferability -31 pts 33 here · 64 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -37 pts 0 here · 37 average
Inclusiveness / equity -42 pts 0 here · 42 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -42 pts 33 here · 76 average
Efficiency -44 pts 0 here · 44 average
Evaluation evidence -45 pts 0 here · 45 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -48 pts 0 here · 48 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -54 pts 0 here · 54 average
Documented learning -74 pts 0 here · 74 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding -91 pts 0 here · 91 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Maldives. 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
Maldives' 33% Reserved-Seat Quota for Women in Local Councils (2019 Decentralisation Act Amendment) · 70
Digital Maldives – National Digital ID and Connectivity for Climate-Resilient Public Services · 52
MI ID Checker — Maldives' Facial-Recognition Tool for Identifying Undocumented Migrant Workers · 40
Maldives Green Fund — Statutory Tourist Green Tax for Environmental Protection · 40
Girls to Code — Dhiraagu and Women in Tech Maldives' National Coding Programme · 20
Maldives Floating City — An Untested Answer to Sea-Level Rise, Clouded by Controversy · 14
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Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in Maldives 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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