What works in United States of America
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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 United States of America
The United States has implemented targeted policies and programs to address workforce development, pay equity, and social harm prevention. Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act received 1,747 pay-discrimination complaints by October 2024, demonstrating enforcement of mandatory salary transparency since 2021. work2future, Silicon Valley's workforce network, served 4,158 participants and placed 758 into employment in 2022, with subsidiary programs like the Trades Orientation Program reporting 87% placement rates within one year. Coaching Boys Into Men, a coach-delivered prevention program in US high schools, showed measurable reductions in dating abuse (85 incidents prevented per 1,000 athletes at 12 months) through cluster-randomised trials. These practices demonstrate evidence-based approaches to labor-market access, compensation fairness, and violence prevention, though the practices shown do not provide comprehensive national coverage data or economy-wide impact assessment.
Drawn from: Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (2021) — Mandatory Salary Transparency and Pay Equity · work2future · Coaching Boys Into Men — Athlete-Coach Delivered Dating Violence Prevention · GoodMaps — Camera-Based Indoor Wayfinding for Blind and Low-Vision Travelers · Universal Design for Learning — CAST's Framework for Inclusive Digital Curricula · Project Euphonia — Training Speech Recognition on Atypical Speech Through Co-Designed Data Collection · Morphic — Free, Open-Source Auto-Personalization Software for Accessible Computing · Xbox Adaptive Controller — Co-Designing a Modular Gaming Controller with Disability Nonprofits
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +27 pts 72 here · 45 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +18 pts 68 here · 50 average
Demonstrated reach +16 pts 92 here · 76 average
Curator validation +15 pts 90 here · 75 average
Documented learning +10 pts 84 here · 74 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +8 pts 62 here · 54 average
Evidence of impact / measured results +8 pts 67 here · 59 average
Weaknesses
Teacher capability & pedagogy -9 pts 29 here · 37 average
Achievement / evidence -11 pts 80 here · 91 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding -11 pts 80 here · 91 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -12 pts 18 here · 31 average
Equity & inclusion -15 pts 37 here · 52 average
Efficiency -24 pts 20 here · 44 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: United States of America. 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
Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (2021) — Mandatory Salary Transparency and Pay Equity · 100
work2future · 100
Coaching Boys Into Men — Athlete-Coach Delivered Dating Violence Prevention · 96
GoodMaps — Camera-Based Indoor Wayfinding for Blind and Low-Vision Travelers · 96
Universal Design for Learning — CAST's Framework for Inclusive Digital Curricula · 96
Morphic — Free, Open-Source Auto-Personalization Software for Accessible Computing · 96
Xbox Adaptive Controller — Co-Designing a Modular Gaming Controller with Disability Nonprofits · 96
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 United States of America 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