What works in Saudi Arabia
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Evidence snapshot for Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has launched several large-scale programmes to expand digital access and workforce capability. Female labour force participation has risen from 17% (2017) to 36.2% (Q3 2024) under Vision 2030 reforms, while over 7 million beneficiaries were reached by Attaa Digital's volunteer-powered digital-literacy initiative in its first year, and 1.1 million Saudis were certified in AI training through SAMAI in 2025 with 52% female participation. A cross-agency Digital Inclusivity Programme targeting WCAG 2.0 AAA reached over 35,000 people through a sign-language video service, though evidence for these initiatives is mainly self-reported or government-tracked rather than independently verified outcome trials.
Drawn from: Saudi Arabia's Digital Inclusivity Programme — Cross-Agency Push for WCAG 2.0 AAA and Assistive-Tech Readiness · Saudi Arabia Vision 2030 Women's Labour Market Reforms · Attaa Digital – Saudi Arabia's Volunteer-Powered National Digital Literacy Initiative · SAMAI 2 — Saudi Arabia's SDAIA Extends Its AI-Training Programme Into 11 Government Ministries · Saudi Arabia's DGA Web Accessibility Mandate — A WCAG 2.1 AA Rule That Independent Audits Show Government Sites Are Still Failing · Saudi Arabia's Regional Headquarters (RHQ) Programme — Mandating Multinational Companies to Base in Riyadh · SDAIA's Regulatory Sandbox — Saudi Arabia's Region-First Testing Ground for Privacy-Enhancing AI · Baseer and Makkah Route Initiative — Saudi Arabia’s AI crowd management and biometric pilgrim services for Hajj
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +51 pts 100 here · 49 average
Effectiveness +34 pts 100 here · 66 average
Impact on gender equality +30 pts 100 here · 70 average
Curator validation +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Evaluated outcomes +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Achievement / evidence +13 pts 100 here · 87 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Weaknesses
Demonstrated reach -9 pts 67 here · 76 average
Equity & inclusion -10 pts 40 here · 50 average
Governance, capability & sustainability -11 pts 52 here · 64 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value -13 pts 44 here · 57 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -14 pts 40 here · 54 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -14 pts 33 here · 48 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Sustainability -15 pts 62 here · 78 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -25 pts 13 here · 38 average
Transferability / demonstrated replication -27 pts 33 here · 60 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -27 pts 0 here · 27 average
Efficiency -32 pts 0 here · 32 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -32 pts 42 here · 74 average
Inclusiveness / equity -35 pts 8 here · 43 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Saudi Arabia. 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
Saudi Arabia Vision 2030 Women's Labour Market Reforms · 85
Attaa Digital – Saudi Arabia's Volunteer-Powered National Digital Literacy Initiative · 76
SAMAI 2 — Saudi Arabia's SDAIA Extends Its AI-Training Programme Into 11 Government Ministries · 67
SDAIA's Regulatory Sandbox — Saudi Arabia's Region-First Testing Ground for Privacy-Enhancing AI · 60
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Where the documented practice in Saudi Arabia 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