What works in Karachi
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Evidence snapshot for Karachi
Karachi is home to several innovation initiatives addressing accessibility and infrastructure challenges. DeafTawk, founded in Karachi in 2018, serves approximately 54,000 monthly active users with sign-language interpretation across a city where the addressable deaf population is estimated at over 10 million. The Orangi Pilot Project, operating since 1980 in Karachi's Orangi settlement, has delivered safe sanitation to over a million people through community-financed sewerage at roughly one-fifth the cost of municipal rates, covering 160+ lanes within the settlement. These practices demonstrate community-driven and technology-enabled solutions to accessibility and sanitation in Karachi, though the evidence does not quantify broader city-wide outcomes beyond these specific initiatives.
Drawn from: DeafTawk — Deaf-Founded Sign-Language Interpretation Platform in Pakistan · Orangi Pilot Project — Community-Financed Sewerage for a Karachi Squatter Settlement · HBL Mobile TalkBack — Pakistan's First Screen-Reader-Enabled Banking App for Blind Customers · Taleemabad — AI-powered adaptive content and teacher support at national scale in Pakistan · Clifton Urban Forest — Miyawaki Reforestation of a Former Karachi Dump Site · UNESCO x Technovation Idea Lab — AI Model-Building for Girls Across Pakistan · Clifton Urban Forest — A Miyawaki Pocket Forest Cooling a Karachi Neighbourhood (Pakistan) · BrailleGenAI — Edge-AI Braille Learning Game Piloted at Karachi's School for the Blind and Deaf
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +51 pts 100 here · 49 average
Evidence of impact / measured results +43 pts 100 here · 57 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +35 pts 83 here · 48 average
Demonstrated reach +24 pts 100 here · 76 average
Inclusiveness / equity +24 pts 67 here · 43 average
Sustainability / continuity +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Innovation +11 pts 73 here · 62 average
Weaknesses
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -11 pts 17 here · 28 average
Governance, certification & transferability -14 pts 50 here · 64 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -15 pts 22 here · 37 average
Documented learning -24 pts 50 here · 74 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -25 pts 22 here · 47 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
DeafTawk — Deaf-Founded Sign-Language Interpretation Platform in Pakistan · 96
Orangi Pilot Project — Community-Financed Sewerage for a Karachi Squatter Settlement · 86
HBL Mobile TalkBack — Pakistan's First Screen-Reader-Enabled Banking App for Blind Customers · 68
Taleemabad — AI-powered adaptive content and teacher support at national scale in Pakistan · 60
Clifton Urban Forest — Miyawaki Reforestation of a Former Karachi Dump Site · 47
UNESCO x Technovation Idea Lab — AI Model-Building for Girls Across Pakistan · 40
Clifton Urban Forest — A Miyawaki Pocket Forest Cooling a Karachi Neighbourhood (Pakistan) · 27
BrailleGenAI — Edge-AI Braille Learning Game Piloted at Karachi's School for the Blind and Deaf · 7
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
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Kartu Prakerja – National Digital Skills and Financial Inclusion Programme · fit 100/100
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- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
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SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
Already adopted in 6 other places
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