What works in Zambia
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Evidence snapshot for Zambia
Zambia has deployed multiple digital and development initiatives to improve access and equity. Voice-first generative AI has reached approximately 10,000 callers asking nearly 90,000 questions by March 2024, with 54% women and girls, addressing the gap where over 80% have mobile phones but only 33% have internet access. The GEWEL programme has supported 139,351 women across 81 districts with livelihood packages and 148,616 girls in secondary school across 65 districts. Community-led infrastructure like LinkNet's mesh network and the eGranary Digital Library in medical schools have addressed connectivity and educational resource gaps in rural areas since the 2000s, though specific outcome measures for these initiatives are not quantified in the available evidence.
Drawn from: Ask Viamo Anything — Voice-First Generative AI for Feature-Phone Users in Zambia · Zambia GEWEL — Girls' Education, Women's Empowerment and Livelihoods Programme · LinkNet / Macha Works — Zambia's Community-Owned Mesh Network and Rural ICT Academy · eGranary Digital Library — Offline Access to Millions of Learning Resources for Zambia's Medical Schools · University Teaching Hospital One-Stop Centre — Lusaka's Integrated Model for Child Sexual-Abuse and GBV Care · PRISE — CABI's AI-Powered Pest-Risk Forecasting Service for African Farmers · AVE — AI-Assisted Cervical Precancer Screening in Zambia's Public Health Facilities · BongoHive — Zambia's First Technology & Innovation Hub
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +34 pts 83 here · 49 average
Curator validation +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Inclusiveness / equity +24 pts 67 here · 43 average
Achievement / evidence +13 pts 100 here · 87 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value +13 pts 70 here · 57 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +11 pts 38 here · 27 average
Documented learning +9 pts 83 here · 74 average
Weaknesses
Demonstrated reach -9 pts 67 here · 76 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -11 pts 27 here · 38 average
Evaluated outcomes -11 pts 67 here · 78 average
Evidence of learning impact -13 pts 13 here · 26 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -14 pts 33 here · 48 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -19 pts 29 here · 48 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -20 pts 27 here · 47 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Zambia. 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
Ask Viamo Anything — Voice-First Generative AI for Feature-Phone Users in Zambia · 100
Zambia GEWEL — Girls' Education, Women's Empowerment and Livelihoods Programme · 96
LinkNet / Macha Works — Zambia's Community-Owned Mesh Network and Rural ICT Academy · 96
PRISE — CABI's AI-Powered Pest-Risk Forecasting Service for African Farmers · 80
AVE — AI-Assisted Cervical Precancer Screening in Zambia's Public Health Facilities · 80
BongoHive — Zambia's First Technology & Innovation Hub · 76
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Cities with evaluated practice
Where the documented practice in Zambia 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