This chapter presents an experimental asset transfer programme, which reaches the poorest of the ... more This chapter presents an experimental asset transfer programme, which reaches the poorest of the poor. It shows that a poverty alleviation programme which reduces vulnerabilities (such as employment, food, dwelling and health insecurities) simultaneously enables households to change from being ‘risk prone’ to being ‘risk averse’. Although as a short-term donor-funded project it faces many challenges, the results support calls to incorporate both development (i.e. infrastructure improvement) and adaptation (i.e. damage resilient livelihoods) into NGO, donor and government policy, planning and practice.
This graduation approach focuses on helping the poorest and most vulnerable households develop su... more This graduation approach focuses on helping the poorest and most vulnerable households develop sustainable livelihoods, increase incomes, and move out of extreme poverty. It consists of a carefully sequenced, multisectoral intervention comprising social assistance to ensure basic consumption, skills training, seed capital, and employment opportunities to jump-start an economic activity, financial education and access to savings, and mentoring to build confidence and reinforce skills. The interventions are time bound (generally 24–26 months) to preclude longterm dependence. The participating household’s trajectory, however, continues beyond the phase of the program interventions. Sustained progress rests on continued income earning and asset building and effective social protection systems to cushion against shocks. Given the Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDG) global focus on eradicating extreme poverty by 2030, the graduation approach should form an integral component of national ...
This graduation approach focuses on helping the poorest and most vulnerable households develop su... more This graduation approach focuses on helping the poorest and most vulnerable households develop sustainable livelihoods, increase incomes, and move out of extreme poverty. It consists of a carefully sequenced, multisectoral intervention comprising social assistance to ensure basic consumption, skills training, seed capital, and employment opportunities to jump-start an economic activity, financial education and access to savings, and mentoring to build confidence and reinforce skills. The interventions are time bound (generally 24–26 months) to preclude longterm dependence. The participating household’s trajectory, however, continues beyond the phase of the program interventions. Sustained progress rests on continued income earning and asset building and effective social protection systems to cushion against shocks. Given the Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDG) global focus on eradicating extreme poverty by 2030, the graduation approach should form an integral component of national ...
People at the very bottom of the economic ladder are often excluded, or exclude themselves, from ... more People at the very bottom of the economic ladder are often excluded, or exclude themselves, from microfinance. Their income is usually too low and unreliable to permit repayment of loans or investment in anything but basic food consumption. In some countries the very poor are served by safety net programs, which usually take the form of cash transfers, food aid, or guaranteed employment schemes. Starting in 2006, Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) and the Ford Foundation have been exploring how a 'graduation model' can create pathways out of extreme poverty, adapting a methodology developed by BRAC in Bangladesh. This brief discusses early lessons from the implementation of the graduation model.
This paper uses the 1997 Kenya Welfare Monitoring Survey to construct an easy-to-use scorecard th... more This paper uses the 1997 Kenya Welfare Monitoring Survey to construct an easy-to-use scorecard that estimates the likelihood that a person in Kenya has expenditure below a given poverty line. The scorecard uses 10 simple indicators that field workers can quickly collect and verify. Poverty scores can be computed on paper in the field in about five minutes. The scorecard’s bias and precision, as well as sample-size formula, are reported for a range of poverty lines. The poverty scorecard is a practical way for pro-poor programs in Kenya to monitor poverty rates, track changes in poverty rates over time, and target services.
People at the very bottom of the economic ladder are often excluded, or exclude themselves, from ... more People at the very bottom of the economic ladder are often excluded, or exclude themselves, from microfinance. Their income is usually too low and unreliable to permit repayment of loans or investment in anything but basic food consumption. In some countries the very poor are served by safety net programs, which usually take the form of cash transfers, food aid, or guaranteed employment schemes. Starting in 2006, Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) and the Ford Foundation have been exploring how a 'graduation model' can create pathways out of extreme poverty, adapting a methodology developed by BRAC in Bangladesh. This brief discusses early lessons from the implementation of the graduation model.
Abstract A detailed comparative study is undertaken of the programmes and impacts of specific non... more Abstract A detailed comparative study is undertaken of the programmes and impacts of specific non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh. Six NGOs were chosen (Caritas, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, Proshika, Saptagram, ...
La mayoría de los estudios sobre programas de microfinanzas en Bangladesh indican que los pobres ... more La mayoría de los estudios sobre programas de microfinanzas en Bangladesh indican que los pobres y especialmente las mujeres, han sido eficazmente escogidos como destinatarios y que los programas de microfinanzas han logrado el éxito a la hora de crear nuevas oportunidades económicas para sus clientes, al aumentar su acceso a los recursos y mejorar su confianza y bienestar1. Sin embargo, los pobres no son un grupo homogéneo. Dentro de la categoría de pobre se incluyen grupos que tienen niveles de activos inferiores, menos oportunidades de empleo, un mayor déficit de consumo y mayor vulnerabilidad ante perturbaciones económicas y sociales. En Bangladesh, estimaciones detalladas indican que el 27% de la población rural, o aproximadamente la mitad de los que están por debajo del umbral de pobreza, viven en “pobreza absoluta”2. La mayoría de estos pobres extremos padecen un déficit alimenticio crónico, son analfabetos, no poseen tierras de cultivo y sobreviven en una situación de insegu...
This chapter presents an experimental asset transfer programme, which reaches the poorest of the ... more This chapter presents an experimental asset transfer programme, which reaches the poorest of the poor. It shows that a poverty alleviation programme which reduces vulnerabilities (such as employment, food, dwelling and health insecurities) simultaneously enables households to change from being ‘risk prone’ to being ‘risk averse’. Although as a short-term donor-funded project it faces many challenges, the results support calls to incorporate both development (i.e. infrastructure improvement) and adaptation (i.e. damage resilient livelihoods) into NGO, donor and government policy, planning and practice.
This graduation approach focuses on helping the poorest and most vulnerable households develop su... more This graduation approach focuses on helping the poorest and most vulnerable households develop sustainable livelihoods, increase incomes, and move out of extreme poverty. It consists of a carefully sequenced, multisectoral intervention comprising social assistance to ensure basic consumption, skills training, seed capital, and employment opportunities to jump-start an economic activity, financial education and access to savings, and mentoring to build confidence and reinforce skills. The interventions are time bound (generally 24–26 months) to preclude longterm dependence. The participating household’s trajectory, however, continues beyond the phase of the program interventions. Sustained progress rests on continued income earning and asset building and effective social protection systems to cushion against shocks. Given the Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDG) global focus on eradicating extreme poverty by 2030, the graduation approach should form an integral component of national ...
This graduation approach focuses on helping the poorest and most vulnerable households develop su... more This graduation approach focuses on helping the poorest and most vulnerable households develop sustainable livelihoods, increase incomes, and move out of extreme poverty. It consists of a carefully sequenced, multisectoral intervention comprising social assistance to ensure basic consumption, skills training, seed capital, and employment opportunities to jump-start an economic activity, financial education and access to savings, and mentoring to build confidence and reinforce skills. The interventions are time bound (generally 24–26 months) to preclude longterm dependence. The participating household’s trajectory, however, continues beyond the phase of the program interventions. Sustained progress rests on continued income earning and asset building and effective social protection systems to cushion against shocks. Given the Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDG) global focus on eradicating extreme poverty by 2030, the graduation approach should form an integral component of national ...
People at the very bottom of the economic ladder are often excluded, or exclude themselves, from ... more People at the very bottom of the economic ladder are often excluded, or exclude themselves, from microfinance. Their income is usually too low and unreliable to permit repayment of loans or investment in anything but basic food consumption. In some countries the very poor are served by safety net programs, which usually take the form of cash transfers, food aid, or guaranteed employment schemes. Starting in 2006, Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) and the Ford Foundation have been exploring how a 'graduation model' can create pathways out of extreme poverty, adapting a methodology developed by BRAC in Bangladesh. This brief discusses early lessons from the implementation of the graduation model.
This paper uses the 1997 Kenya Welfare Monitoring Survey to construct an easy-to-use scorecard th... more This paper uses the 1997 Kenya Welfare Monitoring Survey to construct an easy-to-use scorecard that estimates the likelihood that a person in Kenya has expenditure below a given poverty line. The scorecard uses 10 simple indicators that field workers can quickly collect and verify. Poverty scores can be computed on paper in the field in about five minutes. The scorecard’s bias and precision, as well as sample-size formula, are reported for a range of poverty lines. The poverty scorecard is a practical way for pro-poor programs in Kenya to monitor poverty rates, track changes in poverty rates over time, and target services.
People at the very bottom of the economic ladder are often excluded, or exclude themselves, from ... more People at the very bottom of the economic ladder are often excluded, or exclude themselves, from microfinance. Their income is usually too low and unreliable to permit repayment of loans or investment in anything but basic food consumption. In some countries the very poor are served by safety net programs, which usually take the form of cash transfers, food aid, or guaranteed employment schemes. Starting in 2006, Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) and the Ford Foundation have been exploring how a 'graduation model' can create pathways out of extreme poverty, adapting a methodology developed by BRAC in Bangladesh. This brief discusses early lessons from the implementation of the graduation model.
Abstract A detailed comparative study is undertaken of the programmes and impacts of specific non... more Abstract A detailed comparative study is undertaken of the programmes and impacts of specific non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh. Six NGOs were chosen (Caritas, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, Proshika, Saptagram, ...
La mayoría de los estudios sobre programas de microfinanzas en Bangladesh indican que los pobres ... more La mayoría de los estudios sobre programas de microfinanzas en Bangladesh indican que los pobres y especialmente las mujeres, han sido eficazmente escogidos como destinatarios y que los programas de microfinanzas han logrado el éxito a la hora de crear nuevas oportunidades económicas para sus clientes, al aumentar su acceso a los recursos y mejorar su confianza y bienestar1. Sin embargo, los pobres no son un grupo homogéneo. Dentro de la categoría de pobre se incluyen grupos que tienen niveles de activos inferiores, menos oportunidades de empleo, un mayor déficit de consumo y mayor vulnerabilidad ante perturbaciones económicas y sociales. En Bangladesh, estimaciones detalladas indican que el 27% de la población rural, o aproximadamente la mitad de los que están por debajo del umbral de pobreza, viven en “pobreza absoluta”2. La mayoría de estos pobres extremos padecen un déficit alimenticio crónico, son analfabetos, no poseen tierras de cultivo y sobreviven en una situación de insegu...
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