What works in Sweden
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Evidence snapshot for Sweden
Sweden has implemented several evidence-backed equality policies with measurable impacts. Reserved 'daddy months' in parental insurance reduced fathers taking no leave by 27 percentage points on introduction, with 82% of Swedish fathers now using parental leave, and mandatory annual pay equity surveys have sustained a gender pay gap of 11.2%, below the EU average of 12.7%. Multidisciplinary Barnahus centres co-locating police, prosecutors and social services report conviction rates 20–45% higher than jurisdictions without them. Beyond these quantified interventions, Sweden also supports women's visibility and participation through magazine and networking platforms in business and non-profit initiatives in technology, though these operate at a descriptive level without reported outcome metrics.
Drawn from: Sweden's Reserved 'Daddy Months' in Parental Insurance (Pappamånaden 1995–2016) · Sweden's Barnahus (Children's House) — Multidisciplinary One-Stop Centres for Child Victims of Sexual Abuse and Violence · Sweden's Mandatory Annual Pay Equity Survey (Lönekartläggning) · Empowering Female Entrepreneurship: The 'Women In Business" Magazine in Sweden · Non-Profit Organization "Women in Tech" in Sweden · Swedish Alliance for Women in Sport (SAFWIS) · DIGG's 2022–2024 Monitoring of Digital Public Services — Sweden's DOS-Law Accessibility Oversight · Swedish Lion — Riksarkivet's AI Model Making a Million Handwritten Historical Documents Searchable
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Efficiency +45 pts 89 here · 44 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +19 pts 50 here · 31 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +17 pts 67 here · 50 average
Effectiveness +16 pts 93 here · 77 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +13 pts 89 here · 76 average
Impact on gender equality +9 pts 89 here · 80 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Weaknesses
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -9 pts 42 here · 50 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -14 pts 33 here · 48 average
Evaluation evidence -30 pts 14 here · 45 average
Equity & inclusion -32 pts 20 here · 52 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Sweden. 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
Sweden's Reserved 'Daddy Months' in Parental Insurance (Pappamånaden 1995–2016) · 100
Sweden's Mandatory Annual Pay Equity Survey (Lönekartläggning) · 96
Empowering Female Entrepreneurship: The 'Women In Business" Magazine in Sweden · 94
Non-Profit Organization "Women in Tech" in Sweden · 93
Swedish Alliance for Women in Sport (SAFWIS) · 89
DIGG's 2022–2024 Monitoring of Digital Public Services — Sweden's DOS-Law Accessibility Oversight · 84
Swedish Lion — Riksarkivet's AI Model Making a Million Handwritten Historical Documents Searchable · 80
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
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
Pikin Tab — Imagine Worldwide's Solar-Powered Tablet Learning Programme in Sierra Leone · fit 89/100
- Matches your scale
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
- Matches your scale
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
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
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
Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
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