In 2021, with the support of the Digital Development Partnership, administered by the World Bank, and the EQUALS Global Partnership Access Coalition, Trickle Up teamed up with AVSI Foundation Uganda to test two approaches for women’s digital literacy and inclusion. This guide aims to help Digital Literacy coaches prepare for, facilitate, and document what took place during each of the digital literacy training sessions with EQUALS project participants.
A brief on the Gender angle of the "Graduating to Resilience Initiative." An initiative being implemented in the Kamwenge District of Western Uganda. The Activity selects a woman and/or youth in the household to engage in programming as a primary participant. The approach also builds space to engage the whole household, inclusive of men.
A brief on Nutrition from the "Graduating to Resilience Initiative." An initiative being implemented in the Kamwenge District of Western Uganda. Although the standard Graduation Approach does not typically include nutrition components, understanding the interconnectedness between nutrition, economic activity, and
household resilience was important for the initiative. This brief explores how the activity incorporated nutrition programming into its design.
A brief on the Graduation Approach from the "Graduating to Resilience Initiative." An initiative being implemented in the Kamwenge District of Western Uganda by the AVSI Foundation, in collaboration with Trickle Up and AIR (formerly IMPAQ International). The project is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA).
A brief on Coaching from the "Graduating to Resilience Initiative." An initiative being implemented in the Kamwenge District of Western Uganda by the AVSI Foundation, in collaboration with Trickle Up and AIR (formerly IMPAQ International). The project is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA).
A learning brief with insights from USAID's Nawiri’s approach to BOMA REAP Adaptations for Nutrition on how to incorporate positive nutrition outcomes into the graduation approach.
New to the Jordanian context, the graduation approach (GA or graduation) has gained traction as a promising methodology to life households in Jordan out of extreme poverty and into self-reliance. Graduation programs like the RYSE project are exploring ways to overcome these challenges, including through engagement with the private sector to develop complementary “pull strategies” that help to expand the quality and diversity of economic opportunities available.
To enhance knowledge on how self-reliance and empowerment can be improved for displacement-affected youth in Lebanon, the Durable Solutions Platform (DSP) has developed this learning brief drawing lessons learned from the region on youth, self-reliance, and integrated graduation programming. This brief is part of the Capable, Hopeful, Accepted, Safe and Engaged Youth (CHASE) project, led by DRC Lebanon in partnership with Al Majmoua and Fair Trade Lebanon.
Evidence from multiple contexts suggests that the Graduation Approach, which provides holistic livelihood support for ultra-poor households, has lasting positive impacts on a range of outcomes. However, Graduation programs are relatively expensive because of the intense level of support they offer. The costs pose a challenge for governments that want to implement the approach at scale.
The Sustainable Livelihood Program - Employment Facilitation Track (SLP-EF Track) is a scheme that facilitates the employment of the Pantawid Pamilyang Philipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries. The SLP-EF Track has much potential to bring the 4Ps beneficiaries closer to reaching the poverty threshold since getting employed would provide additional income to the beneficiaries on top of the incentives provided to them by the 4Ps. For this to be realized, however, the SLP-EF Track would have to be effective in targeting beneficiaries and in identifying employment partners for 4Ps.
CARE, Save the Children, and World Vision are combining value chain development (VCD) with gender and nutrition programming to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among the extremely poor. They explore what is unique about VCD with the extremely poor and how specific levers enhance productivity and profitability, equity, and empowerment. The report offers evidence to date and key recommendations for practitioners to redesign VCD programming to sustainably reach the extremely poor.
From 2018 to 2020, ADB implemented a pilot project to test the graduation approach, working with 2,400 households in Negros Occidental. One objective was to find cost-effective ways to sustainably reduce poverty and build resilience to socioeconomic shocks. In this brief, ADB highlights the findings and results at the end of the pilot’s implementation period, including promising new evidence from a September 2020 mobile phone survey of 1,243 households.
A presentation of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Graduation Pilot exploring key messages on how to link social protection to sustainable livelihoods, showcasing the graduation approach, pilot implementation in the Philippines, initial accomplishment and the challenges and lessons learned.
The high cost of commercial microfinance remains a barrier to financial services for the poor and, in particular, the rural poor. Some low-cost approaches, like community-based savings groups (CBSGs), have shown promise. However, these groups, armed with a strongbox and a ledger, are non-commercial, and therefore training and scaling is dependent on donor funding. Technology now allows for the community-managed approach – along with its mutual support and savings objectives – to be done commercially: Digital Savings Groups (DSGs).
West Pokot is the first county in Kenya to develop a policy for a county wide approach to ending extreme poverty which will link together development investments that are currently not well coordinated and fragmented, reduce wastage, improve effectiveness and increase sustainability. This brief consolidates policy priorities and lessons from the development of Kenya’s first county poverty graduation policy in West Pokot by Wasafiri, Village Enterprise and the County Government of West Pokot.
Graduation programmes are innovative because they combine regular cash transfers with livelihood promotion and–most innovatively–a combination of training and tailored coaching. The latter is sometimes considered the ‘X-factor’ in the graduation model, but little evidence exists regarding its role in affecting change. This paper presents findings from a mixed methods evaluation of a graduation programme in Burundi.
This case study was developed as part of Stopping As Success (SAS), a collaborative learning project that aims to study the dynamics at play when ending a development program, and provide guidelines on how to ensure locally led development. This report describes the graduation approach employed by Trickle Up to create independent village savings and loan associations (VSLAs). The case study highlights how Trickle Up has adapted aspects of the VSLA model to the Guatemalan context in order to establish and then “graduate” individual savings groups.
A livelihood support programme called ‘Enhancing the Productive Capacity of Extremely Poor People’ has been implemented in southern Rwanda since 2011by Concern Worldwide-Rwanda, with financial support from Irish Aid. In this report, research around the three areas of coaching, relationships and empowerment is presented, with one substantive chapter of findings devoted to each topic. Before presenting the findings, Chapter 2 summarises the methodology that was designed and implemented to conduct the fieldwork in Rwanda.
This research aims to contribute to the general knowledge base and to provide practical insights regarding implementation of graduation programmes, seeking to offer input into the development of a feasible, affordable and effective model for coaching and support within such programmes. It does so on the basis of on an in-depth study of implementation of coaching and support services within Concern Worldwide’s Terintambwe Graduation Model programme in Burundi.
The Family Hope Program (PKH), a conditional cash transfer, is designed to reduce intergenerational poverty by increasing access to education and health services for children so that they can improve/ develop their HR capability. Various studies have shown that this program contributes positively to improving health conditions, nutritional status, and the education level of beneficiary families. Nevertheless, the ability of the program to improve the family economy is still very limited, as reflected by the small proportion of beneficiary families who have graduated.