Top 34%
in this catalogue (719 scored practices)
Scores cluster high, so position within the catalogue is often more telling than the number alone.
Transferability / replicability3/3
Widely cited as the flagship 'Matlab model' for community-based family planning, replicated in design across numerous national programmes globally over 45+ years.
Impact on gender equality1/1
A 25% fertility decline is directly measured in the original peer-reviewed evaluation and reconfirmed across decades of follow-up studies.
Effectiveness1/1
Consistent, large effects on fertility, child survival, height and schooling are documented across the 1982 study and the 35-year PNAS follow-up.
Efficiency0/1
No cost-effectiveness or budget-efficiency analysis was found in the sources reviewed.
Evaluated outcomes1/1
Exceptionally well evaluated: a 1982 peer-reviewed founding study plus a 35-year peer-reviewed PNAS follow-up (Barham, Menken et al.) with a matched comparison-village design.
Sustainability1/1
The Matlab health and demographic surveillance site has operated continuously since 1977 and remains active today.
Achievement / evidence1/1
Concrete, source-verified demographic figures spanning nearly five decades of continuous data collection.
Gender-mainstreaming embedding0/1
Scored honestly low: this is a health/fertility programme, not one explicitly designed around gender-equality goals, and the 35-year follow-up found no improvement — and in some measures a decline — in women's own decision-making power and property rights despite child-level gains.
Curator validation1/1
Two independent peer-reviewed sources on different domains (PubMed and a university research summary of the PNAS study) corroborate the figures, including the honest mixed finding on women's own outcomes.
Evidoria. El Programa de Planificación Familiar y Servicios de Salud de Matlab, Bangladesh (icddr,b). Persistent ID: 62c42c03-bd20-4a6d-815d-575d27518ff0.