• Summary of Webinar: BRAC’s Ultra-Poor Graduation Approach: Evidence, Innovations and Intersection with Social Protection

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    Sadna Samaranayake, Michael Samson, and Sally-Anne Vincent

    ABSTRACT

    BRAC is one of the world’s largest development organizations, and in 2002 pioneered its Ultra-Poor programme in Bangladesh to improve the resilience of the ultra-poor and to address extreme poverty. In this webinar, hosted by socialprotection.org, Sadna Samaranayake (Senior Advisor, BRAC Ultra-Poor Advocacy and Advisory Services) and Michael Samson (Director of Research, Economic Policy Research Institute) presented analysis of BRAC’s success, and its intersection with social protection. The session was moderated by Sally-Anne Vincent (Deputy High Commissioner, Australian High Commission, Dhaka). This webinar was organized by the Social Protection Employment Community (SPEC), and supported by the Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

    CITATION

    BRAC. 2017. "BRAC’s Ultra-Poor Graduation Approach: Evidence, Innovations and Intersection with Social Protection." [video] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVBEvEZjRsE&gt;

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