What works in Karachi
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Evidence snapshot for Karachi
The evidence shows three distinct interventions in Karachi addressing different needs. The Orangi Pilot Project demonstrates a community-financed sanitation model that has reached over 1 million people across 160+ lanes in Orangi settlement, building more than 99,000 household latrines and 1.6 million feet of underground sewer lines at roughly one-fifth of municipal contractor costs since 1980. Taleemabad has scaled AI-powered educational content to 341 Islamabad public schools (not Karachi specifically, though part of Pakistan's national rollout), reaching approximately 98,000 students with documented 0.28 SD learning gains and 20% literacy improvement. The UNESCO x Technovation Idea Lab enrolled 466 girls aged 10-18 in Karachi through Pakistan Science Club for a five-week AI training programme, though completion rates and learning outcomes were not independently evaluated.
Drawn from: Orangi Pilot Project — Community-Financed Sewerage for a Karachi Squatter Settlement · Taleemabad — AI-powered adaptive content and teacher support at national scale in Pakistan · UNESCO x Technovation Idea Lab — AI Model-Building for Girls Across Pakistan
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evidence of impact / measured results +40 pts 100 here · 60 average
Innovation +36 pts 100 here · 64 average
Inclusiveness / equity +26 pts 67 here · 41 average
Evidence of learning impact +20 pts 50 here · 30 average
Sustainability / continuity +20 pts 100 here · 80 average
Equity & inclusion +13 pts 67 here · 54 average
Scalability & sustainability +12 pts 78 here · 66 average
Weaknesses
Multi-stakeholder collaboration -12 pts 67 here · 78 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -16 pts 33 here · 50 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Karachi. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Orangi Pilot Project — Community-Financed Sewerage for a Karachi Squatter Settlement · 86
Taleemabad — AI-powered adaptive content and teacher support at national scale in Pakistan · 60
UNESCO x Technovation Idea Lab — AI Model-Building for Girls Across Pakistan · 40
Each number is the practice's overall 0–100 quality score against its catalogue's rubric. Know more
Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
Digital Green — Video-Mediated Agricultural Extension · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
Kartu Prakerja – National Digital Skills and Financial Inclusion Programme · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
Smart City Wien Framework Strategy · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Rwanda's Land Tenure Regularization Programme — Titling Land in Women's Names · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
Fit estimates how well a practice matches this place, 0 (poor) to 100 (excellent); the list is ordered to favour practices that address this place's gaps. Know more