What works in El Salvador
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Evidence snapshot for El Salvador
El Salvador has implemented several integrated service and early-warning programmes with mixed evidence of success. Ciudad Mujer's six co-located centres showed that participating women used 43% more public services and reported 8 percentage points higher life satisfaction (93% vs 85%) than controls in a randomised controlled trial. However, the country's SIGES early-warning system for school dropout, which covers 96% of schools, dramatically undercounts at-risk cases—recording only 172 pregnancy alerts versus 1,348 found through field verification (about 8 times fewer). A major debt-for-nature conservation programme announced in October 2024 will direct US$200 million over 20 years to protect the Rio Lempa watershed, which supplies 68% of the country's water.
Drawn from: Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · Chivo Wallet: El Salvador's Government Digital Payments Rollout · SIGES Alerta Temprana — El Salvador's Self-Audited School Dropout Early-Warning System · FIAES Rio Lempa Watershed PES - El Salvador Debt-for-Nature Conservation Programme · DoctorSV — El Salvador's Nationwide AI-Assisted Telemedicine Platform
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +0.67
Efficiency +0.483
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +0.462
Transparency, ethics & data protection +0.416
Documented learning +0.276
Demonstrated reach +0.265
Curator validation +0.25
Effectiveness +0.189
Sustainability +0.186
Impact on gender equality +0.173
Evaluated outcomes +0.163
Scalability & sustainability +0.144
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +0.118
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +0.098
Weaknesses
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced -0.099
Transferability / replicability -0.104
Teacher capability & pedagogy -0.147
Equity & inclusion -0.224
Evidence of impact / measured public value -0.265
Evidence of learning impact -0.327
Governance, certification & transferability -0.361
Transparency, fairness & accountability -0.547
Top good practices here
Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · 100
Chivo Wallet: El Salvador's Government Digital Payments Rollout · 92
SIGES Alerta Temprana — El Salvador's Self-Audited School Dropout Early-Warning System · 53
FIAES Rio Lempa Watershed PES - El Salvador Debt-for-Nature Conservation Programme · 53
DoctorSV — El Salvador's Nationwide AI-Assisted Telemedicine Platform · 20
Recommended to adopt or replicate
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