A Three-day Learning Event in Washington DC Celebrates the Impact of the USAID-funded Graduating to Resilience Activity "This Summit gives us a chance to tackle pivotal questions," said Giampaolo ...

The ultra-poor are defined as the poorest sub-group of those in extreme poverty. They make up over half of the estimated 797 million people living in extreme poverty globally (RESULTS Educational Fund ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Cost-effective, high-impact projects that enable extremely poor households to escape poverty funded by USAID were terminated earlier this year; one is able ...

The Delivering Resilient Enterprises and Market Systems (DREAMS) for refugees programme provides an innovative solution to drive refugee self-reliance and promote durable solutions in contexts of ...

Highrise apartments along the railway line in Kibera, Nairobi. The apartments are part of the Kibera Slum Upgrading Project, September 2016. [Jacob Otieno, Standard] Over the years, Africa has had ...

KYEGEGWA, Southwest Uganda — Economist Dean Karlan was perplexed. He'd come to a remote part of Uganda to check on a program he'd helped design to lift people out of extreme poverty. Only things weren ...

Safety nets and poverty graduation shall work hand in hand so that support through asset transfer, skills development and access to credit is pursued to provide the basis for policy development. This ...

Researchers at LSE provided robust evidence that large, one-off interventions can produce sustainable economic benefits for individuals, improving the lives of people in extreme poverty. Despite ...

Dean Karlan (in blue shirt) meets with a group of refugees in southwest Uganda to hear about their experience with a program that offers loans to help them "graduate" from poverty. (Claire Harbage/NPR ...