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. Le programme de planification familiale et de services de santé de Matlab, Bangladesh (icddr,b). Persistent ID: 62c42c03-bd20-4a6d-815d-575d27518ff0.