Fonkoze’s ‘Graduation’ programme, Chemin Lavi Miyo (CLM), targets extremely poor households in rural
Haiti and provides a comprehensive package of inputs designed to support their ascent out of poverty.
CLM does this through a multi-pronged livelihoods protection and promotion scheme that combines
livelihoods support, social protection, financial inclusion, and the guidance of regular case-manager
visits over 18 months. While the CLM programme has demonstrated high rates of graduation and
positive outcomes reported soon after graduation, there remains a key question of whether gains are
sustained. The purpose of this mixed methods study is to understand the longer-term drivers of
progress and decline for CLM participants who entered the program in 2011 to 2013. The study aims to deepen Fonkoze’s understanding of how to support participants to sustain a path out of poverty. The research
explores whether participants continue to sustain and improve their situation after graduation, or in the
face of on-going challenges and shocks, gradually slip back into poverty, and what the practical
measures are that CLM can take to support these.