What works in Zambia
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Evidence snapshot for Zambia
Zambia's technology and innovation landscape spans both digital access and entrepreneurial support. Voice-first generative AI via Viamo's Ask Viamo Anything reached approximately 10,000 callers and 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. BongoHive, Zambia's first tech hub founded in 2011, has supported over 2,800 startups cumulatively, including more than 1,000 women-led enterprises, and channelled over $2 million in resources by 2020. Beyond technology, the World Bank–funded GEWEL programme has reached 139,351 women with livelihood support across 81 districts and provided secondary-school stipends to 148,616 girls across 65 districts by end-2024.
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 · AVE — AI-Assisted Cervical Precancer Screening in Zambia's Public Health Facilities · BongoHive — Zambia's First Technology & Innovation Hub · IGC and ZamStats Use GPT Models to Speed Up Zambia's Labour Force Survey Coding · Rural ICT Hubs for Women and Girls (GRZ-UN Joint Programme on GBV) · Lusaka Sanitation Project — World Bank-Financed Sewer Upgrading for Zambia's Capital · Mulungushi University's IIOE Centre — Zambia's Generative AI Teacher Training and National AI-in-Education Policy Drive
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Efficiency +56 pts 100 here · 44 average
Documented learning +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Curator validation +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Inclusiveness / equity +25 pts 67 here · 42 average
Effectiveness +23 pts 100 here · 77 average
Evaluation evidence +22 pts 67 here · 45 average
Impact on gender equality +20 pts 100 here · 80 average
Evaluated outcomes +15 pts 100 here · 85 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +14 pts 44 here · 31 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value +12 pts 71 here · 59 average
Achievement / evidence +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +9 pts 100 here · 91 average
Weaknesses
Demonstrated reach -9 pts 67 here · 76 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -12 pts 39 here · 51 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -28 pts 22 here · 50 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
AVE — AI-Assisted Cervical Precancer Screening in Zambia's Public Health Facilities · 80
BongoHive — Zambia's First Technology & Innovation Hub · 76
IGC and ZamStats Use GPT Models to Speed Up Zambia's Labour Force Survey Coding · 73
Rural ICT Hubs for Women and Girls (GRZ-UN Joint Programme on GBV) · 72
Lusaka Sanitation Project — World Bank-Financed Sewer Upgrading for Zambia's Capital · 67
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 Zambia concentrates — each city has its own evidence profile.
Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
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
Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
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
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
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
Already adopted in 6 other places
Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
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
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