What works in San Francisco
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Evidence snapshot for San Francisco
San Francisco has deployed two technology-focused practices with documented scale but limited independent outcome verification. ShelterConnect provides free WiFi across 24 shelters and supportive-housing buildings, serving roughly 16,000 monthly users and 150,000 annually, though these figures combine WiFi and service-directory usage rather than isolating impact. San Francisco's Citywide Microsoft 365 Copilot Rollout scaled from a 2,000-employee pilot to nearly 30,000 city workers by mid-2026, logging over 1 million interactions, but productivity gains rest on self-reported pilot surveys without independent verification or published city-wide service-delivery metrics.
Drawn from: Coaching Boys Into Men — Athlete-Coach Delivered Dating Violence Prevention · ShelterConnect — Free WiFi Networks for San Francisco's Shelters and SROs · San Francisco's Citywide Microsoft 365 Copilot Rollout — From a 2,000-Employee Pilot to 30,000 City Workers · Lyft Women+ Connect: Gender-Based Rider-Driver Matching in the US Gig Economy · Hetch Hetchy Filtration-Avoidance Watershed Protection (San Francisco, USA)
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +64 pts 100 here · 36 average
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +49 pts 100 here · 51 average
Scalability beyond pilot +34 pts 100 here · 66 average
Documented learning +27 pts 100 here · 73 average
Demonstrated reach +25 pts 100 here · 75 average
Curator validation +25 pts 100 here · 75 average
Sustainability +20 pts 100 here · 80 average
Impact on gender equality +17 pts 100 here · 83 average
Governance, certification & transferability +17 pts 83 here · 66 average
Transparency, fairness & accountability +13 pts 67 here · 54 average
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +10 pts 100 here · 90 average
Weaknesses
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced -9 pts 0 here · 9 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -20 pts 33 here · 53 average
Evidence of impact / measured public value -27 pts 33 here · 60 average
Effectiveness -31 pts 50 here · 81 average
Evaluated outcomes -34 pts 50 here · 84 average
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -35 pts 0 here · 35 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: San Francisco. 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
Coaching Boys Into Men — Athlete-Coach Delivered Dating Violence Prevention · 96
ShelterConnect — Free WiFi Networks for San Francisco's Shelters and SROs · 92
Lyft Women+ Connect: Gender-Based Rider-Driver Matching in the US Gig Economy · 63
Hetch Hetchy Filtration-Avoidance Watershed Protection (San Francisco, USA) · 47
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