Documented examples

Each record describes something a country built that the indicators do not capture. The source provides the published number; the mechanism is our interpretation.

Scores describe outcomes. These records describe how a country acted, what it needed and what happened. 742 of 742 records include a mechanism. They do not affect scores.

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Coordination

2 deliveries linked to University-industry collaboration, Public-private collaboration.

Mauritiussince 2014still operatingbears on University-industry collaboration

Collaborative Research and Innovation Grant Scheme (CRIGS)

The Mauritius Research and Innovation Council's Collaborative Research and Innovation Grant Scheme, which co-funds projects led by a local company with a local academic or research institution, had completed 17 projects and had 14 more under way as at 30 June 2020, with 61.5 million rupees of private contribution to the completed ones.

17 projects, crigs projects completed (project value rs 115.9 m, private sector contribution rs 61.5 m, mric amount rs 53.4 m), cumulative to 30 June 2020. 14 projects, crigs projects ongoing (project value rs 102.18 m, private sector contribution rs 57.22 m), 30 June 2020. Mauritius Research and Innovation Council, Annual Report September 2019 to June 2020, Portfolio section, retrieved 2026-10-02.

The move, and what it needed

The national research council pays roughly half the cost of an R&D project only when a registered company applies with a local university or research institute as partner, so public money follows a firm's own commitment.

Preconditions

A national research and innovation council with a competitive grant budget
A university and research institute base able to take on contract work for local firms
Firms large enough to co-fund half of a multi-million rupee project

Limits: The council reports on its own scheme. The figures sit in a PDF on page 23 of 66 (printed page 22); the portfolio table on the same page gives a different split for the reporting year alone (10 ongoing and 3 completed CRIGS initiatives), so the cumulative and annual counts must not be mixed. 2019-20 is the latest annual report the council has published: its publications page lists the 2020-21 to 2023-24 reports as awaiting audit or in process, so nothing after June 2020 can be checked against an annual report. The scheme page (mric.mu/collaborative-research-and-innovation-grant-scheme) still describes the scheme and lists 18 funded projects, all marked completed, with no ongoing project and no call dates, so the scheme may have funded little or nothing since 2020; 'operating' rests on the page still offering it and is the weakest part of the record. Thirty-one projects over six years is small even for a country of 1.3 million people, the counts are projects rather than distinct firms, and project value includes the firm's in-kind contribution. The start year is the first call for proposals, June 2014, stated in the council's Annual Report 2014, not at the cited URL. Nothing here shows the research results or commercial outcomes.

Mauritiussince 2019still operatingbears on Public-private collaboration

MauCAS Instant Payment System, run by the Bank of Mauritius with banks and non-banks

The Bank of Mauritius launched the Mauritius Central Automated Switch in August 2019 as a central hub through which banks and non-bank payment providers route instant payments, and its Instant Payment System grew from 126,000 transactions in FY2019-20 to 19.4 million transactions worth Rs63.0 billion in FY2024-25, with 11 banks and 4 non-banks participating.

19.4 million transactions, maucas instant payment system transactions in the financial year, FY2024-25. 126,000 transactions, maucas instant payment system transactions in its first financial year, FY2019-20. Bank of Mauritius, Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2025, retrieved 2026-10-02.

The move, and what it needed

The central bank built and ran a national switch that every bank and licensed non-bank could connect to, making transfers between any two accounts settle in seconds, then cut fees and raised limits to push use.

Preconditions

A central bank with licensing power over banks and non-bank payment providers
A Real Time Gross Settlement system the switch could settle into
A banking population already using mobile apps

Where else it has been used: The same model as Bolivia's QR interoperability (bol-qr-bcb) and India's UPI, run on a small island economy where the central bank, not a bank consortium, owns the switch.

Limits: The central bank owns and operates the switch, sets the fees and reports the volumes, so this is the system's owner grading its own system. The FY2024-25 figures are in the text on PDF page 88 of the 2025 annual report; the FY2019-20 baseline and the August 2019 launch are in the Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2020 (https://www.bom.mu/AnnualReport/2020/BOM_June_2020.pdf, PDF pages 129 to 130), where only seven banks and one non-bank were connected. The 95.4 percent growth in FY2024-25 followed the Bank's own 2024 rule changes (interchange revisions, removal of person-to-person charges, a higher limit), so it measures a policy push as much as adoption. Nineteen million transactions a year in a country of about 1.3 million people is still modest beside card and cash use; the report gives no per-capita or merchant figure. The collaboration is a public switch with private participants, not a contractual PPP.

Learning

1 delivery linked to Adult learning participation.

Mauritiussince 2009still operatingbears on Adult learning participation

Mauritius Institute of Training and Development part-time training

The Mauritius Institute of Training and Development, the state technical and vocational training body, enrolled 3,352 trainees on part-time courses across its training centres between July 2022 and June 2023, out of 8,668 people it trained that year in full-time, part-time and apprenticeship modes.

3,352 trainees, part-time enrolment, all mitd training centres, July 2022 to June 2023. 8,668 people, people trained by mitd in full-time, part-time or apprenticeship mode, July 2022 to June 2023. Mauritius Institute of Training and Development, Annual Report 2022/2023, table 'Part time enrolment by training centres and gender for the period July 2022 to June 2023', retrieved 2026-10-02.

The move, and what it needed

A statutory training institute under the education ministry runs a national network of training centres that sell evening and part-time courses to workers alongside its full-time and apprenticeship programmes, and publishes centre-by-centre enrolment each year.

Preconditions

A network of public training centres spread across the island
A national qualifications framework that part-time courses lead into
Employers and a training levy that make part-time study affordable

Limits: MITD reports on itself. The part-time table is on page 54 of the PDF (printed page 52) and the 8,668 total is in the opening statement on page 6. The counts are enrolments, not unique adults, and the report gives no ages: part-time courses are the mode most likely to serve working adults, but the full-time courses (2,993 trainees on page 50) mainly take school leavers and are not adult learning in the sense of the indicator, which is why the part-time figure is the metric. Professional drivers training (526) and hotel school short courses (787) make up close to two fifths of the part-time count. MITD is one provider: the Human Resource Development Council's training schemes, private providers and the universities are not in it, so it is not a national participation rate. 2022/23 is the latest annual report on the MITD site. The start year is the 2009 Act that created MITD from the former Industrial and Vocational Training Board, as commonly reported; it was not read at the cited source.

Experimentation

1 delivery linked to Firms through regulatory sandboxes.

Mauritiussince 2018still operatingbears on Firms through regulatory sandboxes

Regulatory Sandbox Licence of the Economic Development Board

Mauritius's Economic Development Board, operating a regulatory sandbox licence regime for innovative financial projects since September 2018 by the World Bank's dating, had nine firms in its sandbox when the World Bank compiled its global database of sandboxes in 2020.

9 firms, firms in the sandbox (edb regulatory sandbox licence), 2020 (database published November 2020). World Bank, Global Experiences from Regulatory Sandboxes (Fintech Note No. 8, November 2020), Appendix 3 Database of Global Sandboxes, row 'Mauritius, EDB', retrieved 2026-10-02.

The move, and what it needed

The investment promotion board issued time-bound sandbox licences to firms proposing financial activities for which Mauritian law had no framework, on the recommendation of a national committee, before the sector regulators took on their own sandbox authorisations.

Preconditions

A statute letting a non-regulator body license activities outside existing financial law
A cross-agency committee to vet applications on behalf of several regulators
Regulators willing later to absorb the function under their own statutes

Limits: The figure is a stock of firms in the sandbox at an unstated date in 2020, compiled by the World Bank from EDB sources, not an annual count of admissions and exits, and it sits in a wide table in the plain-text version of the report (the row lists 'Operational', 9, 'Regulatory Sandbox license', established Sep-18). EDB's own annual reports do not give admissions: the 2020/21 report says only that the EDB 'registered 8 new applications for fintech RSL' and that licences were issued when positively determined, and the 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24 reports read today do not mention the licence at all. A licence under the EDB regime could cover activities with no legal framework at all, so some licensees used it as a market-entry route rather than a time-limited test. Since 2021 the sandbox function has also sat with the sector regulators: the Financial Services Commission issued its first Regulatory Sandbox Authorisation under section 14B of the Financial Services Act on 30 March 2022 and reported that entity exiting after successful testing in its 2022/23 annual report, and the Bank of Mauritius issued a Guideline for Regulatory Sandbox Authorisation in May 2024 with no participant count in its 2024 annual report or December 2024 Financial Stability Report. Status operating rests on those successor regimes, not on evidence that the EDB licence itself still admits firms.

Adaptability

2 deliveries linked to Institutional responsiveness, Disaster preparedness and recovery.

Mauritiussince 2020delivered and closedbears on Institutional responsiveness

Wage Assistance Scheme and Self-Employed Assistance Scheme, paid by the MRA

Mauritius made its revenue authority, the MRA, a payer of COVID-19 income support in March 2020, and by end June 2020 the MRA had disbursed Rs 9,985 million under the Wage Assistance Scheme (Rs 7,603 million) and the Self-Employed Assistance Scheme (Rs 2,382 million) to some 500,000 workers and self-employed people, after receiving 176,000 online SEAS applications within 10 days of the lockdown.

9,985 Rs million, wage assistance scheme and self-employed assistance scheme disbursements, march to june 2020, 2020-06. 176,000 applications, online seas applications received within 10 days during the lockdown, 2020. Mauritius Revenue Authority, Annual Report 2019/20, retrieved 2026-10-02.

The move, and what it needed

The government handed income support to the tax authority, which built online application forms, verified wage claims against employers' PAYE and pension returns, and paid employers and self-employed people directly into bank accounts.

Preconditions

A tax authority with near-universal electronic filing and employer payroll returns
Bank accounts for most workers, including informal ones
A fiscal buffer large enough to pay a month's wages for most of the private sector

Where else it has been used: The same tax-authority route was used by Australia's JobKeeper and Ireland's wage subsidy; in Mauritius it was extended to the informal self-employed, who had no prior payroll record.

Limits: The MRA reports on its own delivery. The 9,985 is the sum we computed from Table 3 of the annual report (Rs 7,603 million WAS plus Rs 2,382 million SEAS, March to June 2020; the text rounds it to Rs 10 billion); the 500,000 recipients is the Director General's 'some 500,000 workers and self-employed individuals', paid 'directly or indirectly', so wage subsidies reached employees through their employers and the count is approximate. The 176,000 applications in 10 days is a pull quote, not a table, and the report gives no time to first payment. The scheme rules date the speed: the MRA communique announcing the Wage Assistance Scheme is dated 23 March 2020 (mra.mu communique list, WageAssistanceScheme230320.pdf), and the first SEAS payment covered the period from 16 March 2020, but the annual report itself gives no date for the first payment. Mauritius had a complete PAYE and pension contribution register to verify claims against, which most countries in this group did not. The report does not show fraud, errors or employees laid off despite the scheme, and the WAS was extended for tourism-linked firms into 2021, so this record covers only the first four months.

Mauritiussince 2021delivered and closedbears on Disaster preparedness and recovery

COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Mauritius's health authorities reported to WHO that 1,123,773 people, 88 per 100 population, had received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose by 31 December 2023, from a first dose given on 26 January 2021, with 1,088,142 (86 per 100) completing the primary series.

1,123,773 people, people vaccinated with at least one covid-19 vaccine dose, 2023-12-31. 86 per 100 population, people who completed the primary series (last dose), 2023-12-31. World Health Organization, COVID-19 dashboard vaccination data (vaccination-data.csv), retrieved 2026-10-02.

The move, and what it needed

Mauritius's health ministry vaccinated almost the whole adult population through its public hospital and health centre network, aided by a small island population and early dose supply.

Preconditions

A routine immunisation programme with a cold chain beyond the capital
A supply of doses large enough for a national campaign, however obtained
Registers good enough to count who received a second dose

Where else it has been used: Bolivia (bol-covid-vaccination) and Venezuela (ven-covid-vaccination) are filed on the same terms.

Limits: The figures are Mauritius's own reports to WHO (DATA_SOURCE 'REPORTING'), with no independent coverage survey behind them, read from one row of a CSV with no prose. Completion of 86 per 100 is near-universal, but Mauritius is a small island of about 1.3 million people with a dense public health network, so the scale says little about logistics capacity. Booster or additional doses reached 654,507 people, 51 per 100. The VACCINES_USED field is empty, so the record cannot show which products were used or where the doses came from, and it evidences distribution only. The per-100 rates divide by WHO's population estimate. Vaccination is a response to one shock, not proof of preparedness for cyclones, floods or droughts, and the brief for this column prefers a hazard-specific delivery; this is filed because none with an official figure was found in the time available. The cited URL is the blob the WHO dashboard serves, as in bol-covid-vaccination.

Building

1 delivery linked to Large project delivery.

Mauritiussince 2010still operatingbears on Large project delivery

B6 Belle Rive to Quartier Militaire road upgrade

Mauritius's Ministry of Public Infrastructure upgraded the 12.1 km B6 Belle Rive to Quartier Militaire road under the World Bank Infrastructure Project approved in 2009, at a cost of US$33.88 million against an appraisal estimate of US$21.60 million, 157 percent of the estimate.

33.88 million US dollars, cost of upgrading works on the belle rive to quartier militaire road, actual, 2014-12. 21.6 million US dollars, cost of upgrading works, appraisal estimate, 2009. World Bank, Implementation Completion and Results Report, Mauritius Infrastructure Project (P091828), Report No. ICR3303, 2015, retrieved 2026-10-02.

The move, and what it needed

The infrastructure ministry procured a rural road upgrade on an estimate that was never checked against designs, then added scope under local pressure, and paid half as much again as appraised.

Preconditions

Detailed engineering designs before the cost estimate is fixed
A scope-change control that resists late stakeholder additions
A lender willing to reallocate funds from cancelled technical assistance

Limits: The costs are in Annex 1 of the World Bank's own completion report, which rated the outcome Moderately Satisfactory and the borrower Moderately Unsatisfactory. Para. 41 explains most of the increase as poor checking of the estimate at appraisal and added scope requested by stakeholders (junctions, a bridge, village works), with further increases from weather and flooding, and gives slightly different totals (about US$32 million, then about US$35 million for the contract), so the 157 percent is the annex figure and the narrative does not match it exactly. A 12 km road is a small project for the construct, chosen because it is the one Mauritian build with an official baseline and outturn found; Mauritius's larger Metro Express light rail was not assessed. The project closed on its original date, 31 December 2014. Plain-text file, no PDF page numbers.