What works in Manchester
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Evidence snapshot for Manchester
Manchester is home to St Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre, the UK's first SARC established in 1986, which served 4,491 people (2,831 adults and 1,660 children) in 2022/23 and pioneered the Independent Sexual Violence Advisor role now adopted across UK SARCs. The city's University of Manchester became the first worldwide to provide all 65,000 staff and students with full Microsoft 365 Copilot access, though student media raised questions about the real cost and learning benefit of blanket access. The Made Smarter Adoption Programme operated in North West England (including Manchester) and engaged 2,500 manufacturers with 334 technology adoption projects funded, though these are modelled forecasts rather than measured outcomes.
Drawn from: St Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) — the UK's First, Manchester · Made Smarter Adoption Programme — Technology Advice and Matched Grants for Manufacturers · Made Smarter Adoption — England's Expert-Led Digital Technology Adoption Programme for Manufacturing SMEs · University of Manchester Becomes First University Worldwide to Give All Staff and Students Microsoft 365 Copilot · City of Trees — Greater Manchester's 3-Million-Tree Programme Built on the UK's Largest i-Tree Eco Survey
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +39 pts 67 here · 28 average
Effectiveness +32 pts 100 here · 68 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy +29 pts 67 here · 37 average
Impact on gender equality +29 pts 100 here · 71 average
Scalability +27 pts 89 here · 62 average
Evaluated outcomes +21 pts 100 here · 79 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +19 pts 67 here · 48 average
Transferability / replicability +18 pts 78 here · 60 average
Achievement / evidence +12 pts 100 here · 88 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +11 pts 100 here · 89 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +9 pts 83 here · 74 average
Weaknesses
Inclusiveness / equity -9 pts 33 here · 43 average
Transparency, ethics & data protection -14 pts 33 here · 47 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Equity & inclusion -17 pts 33 here · 50 average
Efficiency -33 pts 0 here · 33 average
Curator validation -73 pts 0 here · 73 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Manchester. 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
St Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) — the UK's First, Manchester · 78
Made Smarter Adoption Programme — Technology Advice and Matched Grants for Manufacturers · 71
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
Already adopted in 3 other places
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
Already adopted in 4 other places
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
Already adopted in 6 other places
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
Serbia's 40% Electoral Gender Quota — From One-in-Three to Near-Parity Party Lists (2020-2025) · fit 82/100
- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
Bogotá's Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado) · 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