What works in Somalia
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Evidence snapshot for Somalia
Somalia's humanitarian and development landscape shows significant progress in mobile-money infrastructure and cash-transfer systems: 73% of Somali adults used mobile money monthly by 2017, with over 4 million people reached by Baxnaano's national cash-transfer programme by December 2025, supported by digital-literacy training for over 300,000 women. Early warning systems are improving response precision—AI-assisted forecasting helped identify deteriorating hunger in Buur Hakaba before malnutrition peaked, triggering assistance for 48,000 people—while community dialogue on gender-based violence norms shows measurable shifts in attitudes toward survivor support and service confidence in Mogadishu. The evidence quantifies programme reach and some outcome shifts but does not provide comprehensive coverage of Somalia's broader humanitarian, security or development challenges.
Drawn from: Baxnaano Digital & Financial Literacy for Women · EVC Plus: Mobile Money as De Facto Banking Infrastructure in Somalia · HungerMap Live's AI Forecasting Helps Guide Somalia's Emergency Food Response · Communities Care — UNICEF's Community-Dialogue Model to Prevent Gender-Based Violence, Mogadishu · Daariz — AI Voice-Recognition Literacy App for Somali-Speakers in the Horn of Africa · Somalia's 30% Women's Quota in the Federal Parliament — Gains and a Persistent Shortfall · iRise Hub — Mogadishu's First Community Innovation Hub · MIDA — Migration for Development in Africa: Somalia's Diaspora Skills-Return Programme
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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
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Evaluated outcomes +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +19 pts 67 here · 48 average
Equity & inclusion +17 pts 67 here · 50 average
Achievement / evidence +13 pts 100 here · 87 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +13 pts 67 here · 54 average
Innovation level +12 pts 73 here · 62 average
Weaknesses
Inclusiveness / equity -10 pts 33 here · 43 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -14 pts 33 here · 48 average
Governance, capability & sustainability -17 pts 47 here · 64 average
Evidence of impact / measured results -18 pts 39 here · 57 average
Scalability -21 pts 41 here · 62 average
Sustainability (ongoing) -22 pts 56 here · 78 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -27 pts 11 here · 38 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -27 pts 0 here · 27 average
Efficiency -32 pts 0 here · 32 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -36 pts 11 here · 47 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding -39 pts 50 here · 89 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Somalia. 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
Baxnaano Digital & Financial Literacy for Women · 96
EVC Plus: Mobile Money as De Facto Banking Infrastructure in Somalia · 96
HungerMap Live's AI Forecasting Helps Guide Somalia's Emergency Food Response · 93
Communities Care — UNICEF's Community-Dialogue Model to Prevent Gender-Based Violence, Mogadishu · 74
Daariz — AI Voice-Recognition Literacy App for Somali-Speakers in the Horn of Africa · 67
Somalia's 30% Women's Quota in the Federal Parliament — Gains and a Persistent Shortfall · 63
iRise Hub — Mogadishu's First Community Innovation Hub · 52
MIDA — Migration for Development in Africa: Somalia's Diaspora Skills-Return Programme · 52
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Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in Somalia 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