What works in Sao Tome and Principe
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Evidence snapshot for Sao Tome and Principe
São Tomé and Príncipe has implemented targeted digital and social development initiatives supported by international partners. The World Bank deployed satellite-and-machine-learning poverty maps at 110m resolution to improve geographic targeting of safety-net programmes where survey data is scarce, while the US$23.9M Digital STP project (36% disbursed by September 2025) is building submarine fibre, school connectivity, a data-interoperability platform and digital ID infrastructure. Giga's AI satellite mapping has identified 100% of the country's basic and secondary schools to support connectivity planning. Additionally, the National Assembly unanimously passed a 40% gender quota law in July 2022, though it took effect after the 2022 election; the real test will be the September 2026 vote.
Drawn from: HRSI Poverty Maps — Satellite-and-Machine-Learning Targeting for São Tomé and Príncipe's Safety Net · Digital São Tomé and Príncipe Project (STP Digital) · São Tomé and Príncipe's Political Parity Law: A 40% Quota Awaiting Its First Electoral Test · Giga's AI Satellite Mapping Reaches Every School in São Tomé and Príncipe · TRI–CECAB Agroforestry Carbon Programme — São Tomé's First Payment for Ecosystem Services Scheme
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +55 pts 100 here · 45 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +46 pts 100 here · 54 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +36 pts 67 here · 31 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Curator validation +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Transferability / replicability +24 pts 83 here · 60 average
Sustainability +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Scalability beyond pilot +20 pts 83 here · 64 average
Equity & inclusion +14 pts 67 here · 52 average
Achievement / evidence +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Weaknesses
Transparency, ethics & data protection -14 pts 33 here · 48 average
Governance, certification & transferability -14 pts 50 here · 64 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -17 pts 33 here · 50 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -17 pts 33 here · 50 average
Evidence of learning impact -28 pts 0 here · 28 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -37 pts 0 here · 37 average
Efficiency -44 pts 0 here · 44 average
Demonstrated reach -76 pts 0 here · 76 average
Effectiveness -77 pts 0 here · 77 average
Impact on gender equality -80 pts 0 here · 80 average
Evaluated outcomes -85 pts 0 here · 85 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Sao Tome and Principe. 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
HRSI Poverty Maps — Satellite-and-Machine-Learning Targeting for São Tomé and Príncipe's Safety Net · 73
Digital São Tomé and Príncipe Project (STP Digital) · 72
São Tomé and Príncipe's Political Parity Law: A 40% Quota Awaiting Its First Electoral Test · 52
Giga's AI Satellite Mapping Reaches Every School in São Tomé and Príncipe · 40
TRI–CECAB Agroforestry Carbon Programme — São Tomé's First Payment for Ecosystem Services Scheme · 40
Each number is the practice's overall 0–100 quality score against its catalogue's rubric. Know more
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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
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
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
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