What works in Sierra Leone
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Quality scores are 0–100 rubric scores; “strong evidence” reflects study design; adoptions count documented replications elsewhere. Know more
Evidence snapshot for Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone has undertaken multiple evidence-based reforms addressing education, health, and governance. Solar-powered tablets delivering adaptive literacy lessons have doubled reading fluency rates among children after one year, while a machine-learning tool for medicine distribution raised essential-medicine consumption by 19% nationwide, with gains of 32% in the poorest, most remote facilities. The Free Health Care Initiative removed fees for pregnant women, lactating mothers and under-fives, lifting institutional deliveries from 27% to 57% within three years and contributing to a 74% fall in maternal mortality between 2000 and 2020. Freetown's GIS-based property tax reform doubled the tax register and lifted revenue potential fivefold, though the practices do not quantify effects on equity or service delivery outcomes from this revenue gain.
Drawn from: Pikin Tab — Imagine Worldwide's Solar-Powered Tablet Learning Programme in Sierra Leone · Sierra Leone's Decision-Aware Machine Learning Tool Lifts Essential-Medicine Consumption 19% Nationwide for $30 a Month · Freetown's Moptax Reform: GIS-Based Property Valuation for a Fivefold Tax Gain · Sierra Leone's Free Health Care Initiative for Pregnant Women, Lactating Mothers and Under-Fives · Sierra Leone's Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (GEWE) Act, 2022 · Freetown Urban Data & Community Drone-Mapping Programme · GRID3 — Sierra Leone's AI-Powered Population Mapping for Vaccination Micro-Planning · Gemini Guided Learning — A Pre-Registered RCT of AI Math Tutoring in Port Loko District, Sierra Leone
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +55 pts 100 here · 45 average
Inclusiveness / equity +45 pts 87 here · 42 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Curator validation +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Governance, certification & transferability +24 pts 89 here · 64 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Effectiveness +23 pts 100 here · 77 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy +23 pts 60 here · 37 average
Evidence of impact / measured results +22 pts 81 here · 59 average
Impact on gender equality +20 pts 100 here · 80 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +19 pts 50 here · 31 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection +19 pts 67 here · 48 average
Innovation level +19 pts 82 here · 63 average
Evidence of learning impact +19 pts 47 here · 28 average
Scalability & sustainability +17 pts 81 here · 64 average
Evaluated outcomes +16 pts 100 here · 84 average
Equity & inclusion +14 pts 67 here · 52 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +13 pts 67 here · 54 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +11 pts 87 here · 76 average
Achievement / evidence +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +8 pts 58 here · 50 average
Weaknesses
Efficiency -44 pts 0 here · 44 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Sierra Leone. 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
Pikin Tab — Imagine Worldwide's Solar-Powered Tablet Learning Programme in Sierra Leone · 96
Freetown's Moptax Reform: GIS-Based Property Valuation for a Fivefold Tax Gain · 86
Sierra Leone's Free Health Care Initiative for Pregnant Women, Lactating Mothers and Under-Fives · 85
Sierra Leone's Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (GEWE) Act, 2022 · 85
Freetown Urban Data & Community Drone-Mapping Programme · 81
GRID3 — Sierra Leone's AI-Powered Population Mapping for Vaccination Micro-Planning · 80
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 Sierra Leone 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
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
Bogotá's Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado) · 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