What works in Kathmandu
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Evidence snapshot for Kathmandu
Kathmandu Living Labs — Open Cities Mapping for Seismic Resilience shows that before 2012, Kathmandu Valley lacked a reliable digital map of its critical infrastructure. A crowdsourced mapping initiative digitised 126,105 building footprints, 3,716 km of road network, and structurally surveyed 2,256 schools and 350 health facilities, with over 1,500 trained volunteers participating. When a magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck on 25 April 2015, this open map enabled rapid damage assessment and emergency response by the Nepal Army, Nepal Red Cross and international relief agencies. Since then, Kathmandu Living Labs has expanded to run 30+ projects, engage over 5,000 people and partner with 40+ organisations.
Drawn from: OLE Nepal – E-Paath & E-Pustakalaya Digital Learning for Rural Schools · Kathmandu Living Labs — Open Cities Mapping for Seismic Resilience · Nepal's Constitutional 40% Gender Quota in Local Government (2015/2017) · Nepal's Community Forestry Programme — Devolved Forest Management by Community Forest User Groups · Nepal Terai Arc Landscape REDD+ Emission Reductions Programme · SAFE-RISCCS — Nepal's Early-Stage AI Landslide Early-Warning Pilot · Documenting the AI Divide — A Mixed-Methods Study of Student AI Adoption in Urban and Rural Nepal
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +64 pts 100 here · 36 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +32 pts 67 here · 35 average
Documented learning +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Inclusiveness / equity +26 pts 67 here · 41 average
Innovation level +26 pts 90 here · 64 average
Demonstrated reach +25 pts 100 here · 75 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +22 pts 100 here · 78 average
Effectiveness +19 pts 100 here · 81 average
Impact on gender equality +17 pts 100 here · 83 average
Evaluated outcomes +16 pts 100 here · 84 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced +14 pts 67 here · 53 average
Governance, certification & transferability +12 pts 78 here · 66 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +10 pts 100 here · 90 average
Sustainability +9 pts 89 here · 80 average
Weaknesses
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced -9 pts 0 here · 9 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -18 pts 33 here · 51 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability -20 pts 33 here · 54 average
Equity & inclusion -21 pts 33 here · 54 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value -27 pts 33 here · 60 average
Evidence of learning impact -30 pts 0 here · 30 average
Scalability beyond pilot -33 pts 33 here · 66 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -39 pts 0 here · 39 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -50 pts 0 here · 50 average
Efficiency -52 pts 0 here · 52 average
Curator validation -75 pts 0 here · 75 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Kathmandu. 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
OLE Nepal – E-Paath & E-Pustakalaya Digital Learning for Rural Schools · 96
Kathmandu Living Labs — Open Cities Mapping for Seismic Resilience · 76
Nepal's Constitutional 40% Gender Quota in Local Government (2015/2017) · 74
Nepal's Community Forestry Programme — Devolved Forest Management by Community Forest User Groups · 53
Nepal Terai Arc Landscape REDD+ Emission Reductions Programme · 47
SAFE-RISCCS — Nepal's Early-Stage AI Landslide Early-Warning Pilot · 33
Documenting the AI Divide — A Mixed-Methods Study of Student AI Adoption in Urban and Rural Nepal · 7
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.
Ciudad Mujer — El Salvador's Integrated Women's Services Programme · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
SASA! Community Mobilisation Programme against Intimate Partner Violence — Uganda · fit 100/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- 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
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Stadtidee Aarau — Switzerland's First City-Wide Participatory Budget Using the Method of Equal Shares · fit 90/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Abolition of Chhaupadi — Ending Menstrual Exile Huts in Nepal's Far- and Mid-Western Districts · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Guyana's One-Third Gender Candidate Quota — Two Decades of Sustained Representation · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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