What works in Paraguay
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Evidence snapshot for Paraguay
Paraguay has pursued digital inclusion and innovation across education and procurement. In education, Accessible Digital Textbooks reached 19 schools in the first national rollout (2023) with adapted materials for disabled students, though learning outcomes remain unmeasured, while Una Computadora por Niño distributed ~4,000 OLPC devices across 35 schools in Caacupé from 2009 onward—yet independent research found most devices were used for media consumption rather than creative tools and broke within five years. In procurement and innovation, Paraguay's open contracting reforms nearly doubled the contract-value share to micro and small enterprises (2.6% to 4.9% between 2021–2023) and cut contract amendments from 19% to 3%, while PROINNOVA executed 100 firm-level innovation projects and trained 400 innovation leaders, now scaling with a $10 million Phase II loan.
Drawn from: Accessible Digital Textbooks — Co-Created Inclusive Learning Materials in Paraguay's Primary Schools · Una Computadora por Niño - Caacupe Digital City (Paraguay Educa) · DNCP Contrataciones Abiertas — Paraguay's Open Contracting Data Standard for Public Procurement · PROINNOVA — Paraguay's IDB-Backed Business Innovation Programme · UNICEF & Paraguay's Ministry of Education — Accessible Digital Textbooks and the 2018 Inclusive-Procurement Mandate · Corazón Verde del Chaco REDD+ Project (Paraguay) · Paraguay DNA — Machine Learning for Customs Fraud Detection · Paraguay's Law 5777/2016 — Comprehensive Criminalisation of Femicide and All Forms of Violence Against Women
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +55 pts 100 here · 45 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +50 pts 100 here · 50 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +36 pts 67 here · 31 average
Equity & inclusion +31 pts 83 here · 52 average
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced +27 pts 33 here · 7 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Impact on gender equality +20 pts 100 here · 80 average
Evaluated outcomes +15 pts 100 here · 85 average
Sustainability +15 pts 93 here · 78 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Scalability beyond pilot +8 pts 72 here · 64 average
Weaknesses
Governance, certification & transferability -9 pts 56 here · 64 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -17 pts 33 here · 50 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -20 pts 33 here · 54 average
Efficiency -44 pts 0 here · 44 average
Curator validation -74 pts 0 here · 74 average
Effectiveness -77 pts 0 here · 77 average
Achievement / evidence -91 pts 0 here · 91 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Paraguay. 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
Accessible Digital Textbooks — Co-Created Inclusive Learning Materials in Paraguay's Primary Schools · 92
Una Computadora por Niño - Caacupe Digital City (Paraguay Educa) · 88
DNCP Contrataciones Abiertas — Paraguay's Open Contracting Data Standard for Public Procurement · 81
PROINNOVA — Paraguay's IDB-Backed Business Innovation Programme · 71
Corazón Verde del Chaco REDD+ Project (Paraguay) · 60
Paraguay DNA — Machine Learning for Customs Fraud Detection · 53
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 Paraguay 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
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
Abolition of Chhaupadi — Ending Menstrual Exile Huts in Nepal's Far- and Mid-Western Districts · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Guyana's One-Third Gender Candidate Quota — Two Decades of Sustained Representation · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Serbia's 40% Electoral Gender Quota — From One-in-Three to Near-Parity Party Lists (2020-2025) · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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