What works in South Africa
17 evaluated practices · All catalogues
Evidence snapshot for South Africa
South Africa demonstrates innovation across multiple sectors. Thuthuzela Care Centres achieve conviction rates of 77–89% in sexual violence cases, above the 72.5% national average, while Working for Water has cleared 2.5M+ hectares of invasive plants and employed 300,000+ people since 1995. SmartCape provides 670 public internet terminals across 104 library branches to 500,000+ registered users, and E.A.R.S. enrolled 12,000+ teachers in its first month via WhatsApp AI training for hearing-loss detection. The evidence shown is primarily descriptive or pre–post observational; it does not quantify broader economic or social outcomes beyond these specific programmes.
Drawn from: Thuthuzela Care Centres — Integrated One-Stop Sexual Violence Support, South Africa · Zenzeleni Networks – Rural Cooperative-Owned ISP · SmartCape – Cape Town's Municipal Library Digital Access and Skills Programme · E.A.R.S. — AI-Powered WhatsApp Teacher Training for Early Hearing-Loss Detection in South African Schools · Working for Water (South Africa) · SARS AI compliance engine — South Africa's machine-learning tax risk platform · South Africa's Women's Budget Initiative — Parliament-led gender analysis of the national budget (1995–2000) · WeThinkCode_ — Achieving Gender Parity in a Free South African Coding Academy
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +0.67
Equity & inclusion +0.443
Transparency, fairness & accountability +0.286
Documented learning +0.276
Demonstrated reach +0.265
Curator validation +0.25
Evidence of impact / measured public value +0.235
Teacher capability & pedagogy +0.187
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced +0.179
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +0.173
Evaluated outcomes +0.163
Scalability beyond pilot +0.144
Innovation level +0.144
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +0.129
Transparency, ethics & data protection +0.083
Weaknesses
Sustainability (ongoing) -0.1
Gender-mainstreaming embedding -0.102
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -0.238
Efficiency -0.317
Top good practices here
Thuthuzela Care Centres — Integrated One-Stop Sexual Violence Support, South Africa · 96
Zenzeleni Networks – Rural Cooperative-Owned ISP · 96
SmartCape – Cape Town's Municipal Library Digital Access and Skills Programme · 96
Working for Water (South Africa) · 87
SARS AI compliance engine — South Africa's machine-learning tax risk platform · 80
WeThinkCode_ — Achieving Gender Parity in a Free South African Coding Academy · 74
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 125
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 125
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
Digital Green — Video-Mediated Agricultural Extension · fit 125
- Backed by strong evidence
Kartu Prakerja – National Digital Skills and Financial Inclusion Programme · fit 125
- Backed by strong evidence
LISTA — Tablet-Based Financial Education for Cash-Transfer Recipients · fit 125
- Backed by strong evidence
Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization Programme — Titling Land in Women's Names · fit 115
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 115
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence