What works in Lusaka
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Evidence snapshot for Lusaka
Between 2015 and 2024, Lusaka's World Bank-financed sanitation project rehabilitated and extended sewer infrastructure, connecting over 345,000 residents to improved sanitation services—exceeding its 305,000-person target—while dramatically improving utility responsiveness, with sewer-blockage complaints resolved within 48 hours rising from 28% to 100%. The project added more than 2,200 new household sewer connections, rehabilitated or built 117 km of sewer lines, and constructed the Manchinchi Fecal Sludge Treatment Plant serving 264,000 people. The evidence demonstrates infrastructure gains and service improvements in sanitation but does not quantify impacts on health outcomes or broader economic development in Lusaka.
Drawn from: Zambia GEWEL — Girls' Education, Women's Empowerment and Livelihoods Programme · AVE — AI-Assisted Cervical Precancer Screening in Zambia's Public Health Facilities · BongoHive — Zambia's First Technology & Innovation Hub · Lusaka Sanitation Project — World Bank-Financed Sewer Upgrading for Zambia's Capital · ZRA AI Unit — Zambia Revenue Authority machine-learning platform for tax-fraud detection and revenue-gap identification · ZRA AI Unit — Zambia Revenue Authority's Machine-Learning Customs Risk Model · Zambia–Obrizum AI-Powered Adaptive Learning Pilot in Secondary Schools and TEVET Institutions
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Efficiency +48 pts 100 here · 52 average
Inclusiveness / equity +42 pts 83 here · 41 average
Curator validation +25 pts 100 here · 75 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
Evidence of impact / measured public value +13 pts 73 here · 60 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +10 pts 100 here · 90 average
Weaknesses
Scalability beyond pilot -10 pts 56 here · 66 average
Innovation -14 pts 50 here · 64 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -17 pts 33 here · 50 average
Equity & inclusion -21 pts 33 here · 54 average
Evidence of learning impact -30 pts 0 here · 30 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -39 pts 0 here · 39 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Lusaka. 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
Zambia GEWEL — Girls' Education, Women's Empowerment and Livelihoods Programme · 96
AVE — AI-Assisted Cervical Precancer Screening in Zambia's Public Health Facilities · 80
BongoHive — Zambia's First Technology & Innovation Hub · 76
Lusaka Sanitation Project — World Bank-Financed Sewer Upgrading for Zambia's Capital · 67
ZRA AI Unit — Zambia Revenue Authority's Machine-Learning Customs Risk Model · 47
Zambia–Obrizum AI-Powered Adaptive Learning Pilot in Secondary Schools and TEVET Institutions · 27
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.
Digital Green — Video-Mediated Agricultural Extension · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Kartu Prakerja – National Digital Skills and Financial Inclusion Programme · fit 100/100
- 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
Smart City Wien Framework Strategy · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- 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
VIGINUM's D3lta — France's Open-Source AI Tool for Detecting Coordinated Disinformation · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- 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
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