I met Ramdhari Didi while I was on field in Gumla, Jharkhand. She lived with her husband and belonged to a ‘Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group’. The longer I spoke with her, the more I ...

Improving Nutrition with the Graduation Approach: A Technical Learning Brief (5.65 MB) Drawing inspiration from proven programmes like BRAC's Ultra-Poor Graduation, the initiative combines social ...

Refugees have specific vulnerabilities that make them among the poorest individuals in the world. The pandemic has exposed them to new health, protection and economic threats. In fact, refugees are ...

The United Nations has declared a goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030. But for all the success that microfinance—financial services targeted at the economically active poor—has shown in ...

The Haitian Graduation Research Programme is a partnership between IDS and Fonkoze. The research has five components designed to understand better the impact of Fonkoze’s Graduation Programme for the ...

Speakers at a discussion yesterday urged the government to integrate the graduation approach into the social protection measures in order to eradicate extreme poverty. “It is important that the ...

The Graduation Approach in FCV Settings was also featured at the Fragility Forum 2022. The speakers presented five case studies of impact evaluations of ‘graduation’ programs implemented across FCV ...

May 15, 2015 NEW HAVEN CT - A new six-country study shows a comprehensive approach for the ultra-poor, the approximately one billion people who live on less than $1.25 a day, boosted livelihoods, ...

THE air in the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) auditorium on May 11 was suffused with celebration. Women from some of the poorest rural areas of Punjab — Okara and Pindi Bhattian — had come to ...

Graduation programmes have enjoyed a surge in policy and academic attention in the past few years, yet despite some evidence of success in terms of ‘graduating’ individuals out of extreme poverty, not ...