Pakistan’s BISP pays quarterly grants to >6.1 million female household heads across 149 districts. Oxford Policy Management’s evaluation (2010–2017) found poverty fell …
Easypaisa, Pakistan's branchless-banking pioneer launched in 2009, serves roughly 33 million accounts, but independent research shows the mobile-money gender gap remains stark: …
Pakistan's government programme delivering 15 free online digital skills courses; 5.14 million trainings completed by March 2026, 800,000+ women trained, with graduates …
Islamabad, Pakistan
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 9%86/100
Since 1980, residents of Karachi's Orangi settlement have self-financed and self-built underground sewers guided by the Orangi Pilot Project, cutting sanitation costs …
Karachi, Pakistan
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 12%80/100
A peer-reviewed pilot across 10 sites in Lahore, Pakistan, combined ultrasonic bin-fill sensors with cloud-based AI route optimisation, processing over 200 million …
On World Sight Day 2023, HBL Mobile became Pakistan's first banking app to formally support phone screen readers (TalkBack/VoiceOver), letting blind and …
Karachi, Pakistan
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 14%67/100
Announced 19 May 2026, this Google.org-funded, UNICEF-implemented partnership trains Pakistani educators to safely use Google's AI reading tool ReadAlong for adaptive literacy …
Pakistan's Higher Education Commission has mandated university ORIC offices since the early 2010s, growing to 71 offices and 197 licensing agreements by …
Pakistan's BISP operates a 35-million-household registry using Proxy Means Test scoring cross-referenced with NADRA biometric data to identify the poor; 15 million …
Since 1994 Pakistan has employed women (eight years' schooling minimum) as community health workers, about 90,000 serving roughly 115 million people. Evaluations …
Islamabad, Pakistan
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 46%60/100
Pakistan's NADRA verifies each citizen's identity once via a fingerprint, face and iris ABIS platform, letting banks, telecoms and welfare programmes re-check …
Islamabad, Pakistan
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 24%60/100
AI-powered animated lessons and adaptive assessments for K-6 learners in Pakistan. Independent evaluation: 0.28 SD learning gain, 20% literacy improvement in 6 …
Pakistan's national applied-research council operates laboratory complexes across seven cities, patenting and leasing industrial processes to private companies — 96 processes leased …
Since January 2021, philanthropist-led Clifton Urban Forest has planted 700,000+ native saplings using the dense Miyawaki method on a reclaimed 200-acre former …