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What works in Toronto

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15
evaluated practices
61/100
average quality score
13%
strong evidence, of 15 assessed
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Evidence snapshot for Toronto

Toronto has several major initiatives supporting employment and innovation. TRIEC's Mentoring Partnership has matched over 5,300 skilled immigrants with professional mentors since 2003, with participants 2.5x more likely to land good-quality jobs and 85% employed in permanent, full-time roles. MaRS Discovery District, established in 2000, has supported ventures that created over 33,000 jobs, raised C$19 billion in capital, and generated C$11.5 billion in cumulative revenue by 2022. Additionally, Cyber-Seniors, a Toronto-based nonprofit, has provided technology and online-safety training to over 8,500 seniors through reverse-mentoring by 1,500+ student volunteers. These practices demonstrate Toronto's focus on bridging employment gaps for skilled immigrants, fostering innovation-driven economic growth, and fostering intergenerational learning.

Drawn from: TRIEC Mentoring Partnership · TRIEC Mentoring Partnership — Toronto's Skilled-Immigrant Employment Bridge · Cyber-Seniors: Connecting Generations — Reverse-Mentoring Digital and Online-Safety Training · MaRS Discovery District · Ontario's Auditor General Exposes Shadow AI and Governance Gaps Across the Public Service · Ontario Learn and Stay Grant · MaRS Discovery District — research commercialisation hub · MaRS Discovery District — Research-to-Market Knowledge Transfer Hub

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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers

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Strengths

Evaluation evidence +64 pts 100 here · 36 average

Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +49 pts 100 here · 51 average

Transparency, fairness & accountability +30 pts 83 here · 54 average

Documented learning +27 pts 100 here · 73 average

Demonstrated reach +25 pts 100 here · 75 average

Evidence of impact / measured results +14 pts 74 here · 60 average

Multi-stakeholder collaboration +12 pts 91 here · 78 average

Weaknesses

Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced -9 pts 0 here · 9 average

Inclusiveness / equity -11 pts 30 here · 41 average

Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -20 pts 33 here · 53 average

Governance, capability & sustainability -22 pts 44 here · 66 average

Sustainability / continuity -27 pts 53 here · 80 average

Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced -35 pts 0 here · 35 average

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Score profile vs peers

Evaluation evidence
100 · 36
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control
100 · 51
Transparency, fairness & accountability
83 · 54
Documented learning
100 · 73
Demonstrated reach
100 · 75
Evidence of impact / measured results
74 · 60
Multi-stakeholder collaboration
91 · 78
Transferability / demonstrated replication
56 · 59
Scalability
62 · 66
Innovation
59 · 64
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced
0 · 9
Inclusiveness / equity
30 · 41
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced
33 · 53
Governance, capability & sustainability
44 · 66
Sustainability / continuity
53 · 80
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced
0 · 35

Coloured bar: Toronto. 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

TRIEC Mentoring Partnership · 91

TRIEC Mentoring Partnership — Toronto's Skilled-Immigrant Employment Bridge · 91

Cyber-Seniors: Connecting Generations — Reverse-Mentoring Digital and Online-Safety Training · 88

MaRS Discovery District · 76

Ontario's Auditor General Exposes Shadow AI and Governance Gaps Across the Public Service · 73

Ontario Learn and Stay Grant · 71

MaRS Discovery District — research commercialisation hub · 57

MaRS Discovery District — Research-to-Market Knowledge Transfer Hub · 57

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.

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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
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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
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Digital Green — Video-Mediated Agricultural Extension · fit 100/100

  • Backed by strong evidence
  • Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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Kartu Prakerja – National Digital Skills and Financial Inclusion Programme · fit 100/100

  • Backed by strong evidence
  • Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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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
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Sweden's Barnahus (Children's House) — Multidisciplinary One-Stop Centres for Child Victims of Sexual Abuse and Violence · fit 90/100

  • Rated highly transferable
  • Backed by strong evidence
  • Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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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
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Copenhagen Business Hub (Erhvervshus Hovedstaden) · fit 90/100

  • Rated highly transferable
  • Backed by strong evidence
  • 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