What works in Pakistan
8 evaluated practices · All catalogues
Evidence snapshot for Pakistan
Pakistan's evidence base spans social protection, digital skills, environmental restoration, and education. BISP's cash transfers to 6.1 million female household heads reduced poverty by 7 percentage points, while DigiSkills trained 800,000+ women in digital skills, generating $1.65 billion in freelancing export revenues. Delta Blue Carbon's mangrove restoration project spans 350,000 hectares across the Indus Delta, benefiting 43,000 people, and Taleemabad's AI-powered education platform achieved 0.28 standard deviation learning gains and 20% literacy improvement within six months. The practices demonstrate quantified impacts in poverty reduction, economic opportunity, environmental management, and learning outcomes, though they do not collectively cover health, infrastructure, or agriculture.
Drawn from: Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) — Targeted Cash Transfer to Female Heads of Household · DigiSkills – National Free Online Digital Skills Training Programme · Delta Blue Carbon — Indus Delta Mangrove Restoration (Pakistan) · Pakistan BISP — National Socio-Economic Registry (NSER) Algorithmic Social Protection Targeting · Taleemabad — AI-powered adaptive content and teacher support at national scale in Pakistan · Nestlé Pakistan Caring for Water — Alliance for Water Stewardship Certification (Sheikhupura) · Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Billion Tree Tsunami — Provincial Forest Restoration Payments (Pakistan) · University of the Punjab's AI Admission Assistant Chatbot
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evaluation evidence +0.67
Efficiency +0.483
Documented learning +0.276
Demonstrated reach +0.265
Curator validation +0.25
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control +0.24
Effectiveness +0.189
Sustainability (ongoing) +0.186
Impact on gender equality +0.173
Evaluated outcomes +0.163
Governance, certification & transferability +0.139
Gender-mainstreaming embedding +0.098
Weaknesses
Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced -0.099
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -0.105
Teacher capability & pedagogy -0.147
Transparency, fairness & accountability -0.214
Innovation level -0.256
Transparency, ethics & data protection -0.417
Top good practices here
Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) — Targeted Cash Transfer to Female Heads of Household · 96
DigiSkills – National Free Online Digital Skills Training Programme · 88
Delta Blue Carbon — Indus Delta Mangrove Restoration (Pakistan) · 80
Pakistan BISP — National Socio-Economic Registry (NSER) Algorithmic Social Protection Targeting · 67
Taleemabad — AI-powered adaptive content and teacher support at national scale in Pakistan · 60
Nestlé Pakistan Caring for Water — Alliance for Water Stewardship Certification (Sheikhupura) · 40
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Billion Tree Tsunami — Provincial Forest Restoration Payments (Pakistan) · 33
University of the Punjab's AI Admission Assistant Chatbot · 13
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