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 …
Islamabad, Pakistan
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 9%96/100
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 10%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 14%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 …
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 …
Islamabad, Pakistan
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 50%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 28%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 …
Karachi, Pakistan
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 73%40/100
In 2017 Nestlé's Sheikhupura plant became the first site worldwide AWS-certified; drip-irrigation subsidies with Punjab cut farm water use by 377,500+ m3/yr …
Sheikhupura, Pakistan
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 88%33/100
Punjab Police's AI Face Trace System matches CCTV images against an 18M-record biometric database from driving licences, crime files and prison photos. …
Lahore, Pakistan
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 81%33/100
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's provincial government paid community watchers and nursery growers to regenerate 350,000 ha of forest, exceeding its Bonn Challenge pledge — …
Pakistan's oldest public university, the University of the Punjab, launched an in-house, trilingual (English/Urdu/Roman Urdu) AI chatbot in June 2026 to guide …
Lahore, Pakistan
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 100%7/100
Mehran University and the IEEE Karachi Section built BrailleGenAI, an edge-AI and generative-AI device that reads tactile Braille blocks aloud and gamifies …