What works in Nicaragua
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Evidence snapshot for Nicaragua
Nicaragua's development landscape includes a range of community-focused interventions with documented reach and impact. PRODEL's municipal fund reached approximately 38,000 families (48% of founding-municipality populations) through 260 infrastructure projects and over 16,600 housing and micro-enterprise loans, with total co-financing around US$18 million. Puntos de Encuentro's Sexto Sentido edutainment strategy reached 70% of young women surveyed, with a longitudinal panel of 4,500 young people showing improvements in gender-equitable attitudes and awareness of violence-against-women laws. The CommuniTree Community Carbon Programme engaged over 4,000 smallholder families across 17,000+ hectares and paid US$3.1 million to communities in 2021. The evidence documents outcomes in infrastructure, youth behavior change, and environmental engagement but does not quantify broader economic or social indicators across the country.
Drawn from: PRODEL — Municipal Neighbourhood Upgrading and Micro-Credit Fund in Nicaragua · Sexto Sentido — Puntos de Encuentro's Youth TV Drama and Community-Mobilisation Strategy Against Violence, Nicaragua · Sexto Sentido & Somos Diferentes, Somos Iguales — Puntos de Encuentro's Edutainment Strategy, Nicaragua · CommuniTree Community Carbon Programme (Nicaragua) · UNICEF & Nicaragua's Ministry of Education — AI-Enabled Accessible Digital Textbooks in Managua's Early-Grade Classrooms · Nicaragua's National AI Training Programme for School Leaders — MINED, INATEC and CNU · Caribbean Regional Communications Infrastructure Program (CARCIP) – Nicaragua · Nicaragua's Gender Parity Law — Record Numbers, Eroding Substance
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Inclusiveness / equity +57 pts 100 here · 43 average
Evaluation evidence +51 pts 100 here · 49 average
Evidence of impact / measured results +43 pts 100 here · 57 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +40 pts 67 here · 27 average
Curator validation +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Evaluated outcomes +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection +20 pts 67 here · 47 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +19 pts 67 here · 48 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +19 pts 67 here · 48 average
Achievement / evidence +13 pts 100 here · 87 average
Weaknesses
Scalability & sustainability -12 pts 50 here · 62 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding -22 pts 67 here · 89 average
Efficiency -32 pts 0 here · 32 average
Effectiveness -33 pts 33 here · 66 average
Documented learning -74 pts 0 here · 74 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Nicaragua. 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
PRODEL — Municipal Neighbourhood Upgrading and Micro-Credit Fund in Nicaragua · 86
CommuniTree Community Carbon Programme (Nicaragua) · 67
Nicaragua's National AI Training Programme for School Leaders — MINED, INATEC and CNU · 53
Caribbean Regional Communications Infrastructure Program (CARCIP) – Nicaragua · 52
Nicaragua's Gender Parity Law — Record Numbers, Eroding Substance · 52
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Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in Nicaragua 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