What works in Qatar
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Evidence snapshot for Qatar
Qatar has pursued several large-scale digital and labour initiatives. The Better Connections Program reached approximately 1.5 million migrant workers by installing 1,927 ICT/Wi-Fi facilities in worker accommodation and distributing over 20,000 refurbished computers. Qatar's government adopted Microsoft Copilot across nine entities in phase one, achieving 62% adoption and reportedly saving over 240,000 working hours. Qatar also reformed domestic worker protections in 2020, becoming the first Gulf state to apply a universal minimum wage (QAR 1,000 plus allowances) to an estimated 173,000+ domestic workers, though enforcement gaps have been documented.
Drawn from: Better Connections Program · Qatar Science & Technology Park: A Free-Zone Bridge from Research to Global Markets · Adopt Microsoft Copilot — Qatar's MCIT Reports 62% Adoption and 1.7 Million Tasks Across Nine Government Entities · Qatar's 2020 Minimum Wage and Kafala Reform for Domestic Workers · Qatar Science & Technology Park — a Sovereign-Funded University-Industry Tech Transfer Hub · Qatar's AI-Powered Building Permit System — Cutting Approval Times From 30 Days to 2 Hours · WISE EdTech Testbed — Global Survey Finds Only 30% of Qatari Teachers Understand How AI Works · Hukoomi AI — Qatar's GPT-Powered National e-Government Portal
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +55 pts 100 here · 45 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
Evaluated outcomes +15 pts 100 here · 85 average
Achievement / evidence +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Weaknesses
Evidence of impact / measured public value -9 pts 50 here · 59 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -9 pts 44 here · 54 average
Governance, capability & sustainability -11 pts 53 here · 64 average
Evidence of learning impact -11 pts 17 here · 28 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -14 pts 17 here · 31 average
Transferability / demonstrated replication -17 pts 43 here · 60 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -17 pts 33 here · 50 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -20 pts 56 here · 76 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -31 pts 17 here · 48 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -33 pts 17 here · 50 average
Equity & inclusion -36 pts 17 here · 52 average
Efficiency -44 pts 0 here · 44 average
Effectiveness -77 pts 0 here · 77 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding -91 pts 0 here · 91 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Qatar. 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
Better Connections Program · 72
Qatar Science & Technology Park: A Free-Zone Bridge from Research to Global Markets · 67
Qatar's 2020 Minimum Wage and Kafala Reform for Domestic Workers · 59
Msheireb Downtown Doha — Qatar Foundation's Smart, Low-Carbon Regeneration of Historic Doha · 52
Qatar Science & Technology Park — a Sovereign-Funded University-Industry Tech Transfer Hub · 52
Qatar's AI-Powered Building Permit System — Cutting Approval Times From 30 Days to 2 Hours · 47
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Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in Qatar 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
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
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
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