This publication is a photobook collection of stories of participants of The South Sudan Safety Nets Project. Stories feature participants of public works and cash plus training interventions. It also provides a summary of the project components, main results and best practices, including gender-focus and behavioral innovations. 

This paper provides a framework to move progressively from gender-sensitive or gender-responsive approaches towards promoting a more ambitious gender transformative agenda (GTA). To do so, it reviews a range of social protection policies and livelihoods programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa, including those that target women’s economic inclusion through asset grants, public works and training.

The Global Roadmap for Refugee Entrepreneurship provides guidance on refugee entrepreneurship programs based on best practices in the field from 21 countries.

This paper examines how FHI 360’s utilization of labor market assessments (LMA) ensures that extremely poor youth (EPY) and adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) programming is market-driven and aligned, linking the extreme poor to sustainable livelihood opportunities. The article reviews three LMA case studies from projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Liberia, and South Africa.

This report looks at practices of multidimensional coaching that support people experiencing persistent poverty and exclusion in building the capability to be self-reliant. The content of this report stems from a series of exchanges with the leaders of a number of multidimensional coaching practices across the world. It comprehends experiences in low- and middle-, and high income countries.

The Clarissa Cash Plus program is an innovative social protection scheme that provides unconditional cash transfers and a needs-based community organizing for tackling social ills, including the worst forms of child labor. This brief shares the intervention's design, theory of change and unique features, such as its unconditional and universal components.  

This paper presents longer-term impacts of the multi-faceted intervention "Targeting the Ultra-Poor" (TUP) program in Afghanistan, after the country went through severe droughts in 2018 and 2021, suffer from escalating violence, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The results contribute to the evidence of multifaceted livelihoods programs in building resilience and maintaining and improving outcomes, despite adverse shocks. 

This case study offers perspectives and learnings on the implementation of the Labor-Intensive Public Works (LIPW) and Productive Inclusion (PI) programs, as part of the Ghana Productive Safety Net Project (GPSNP).  LIPW aims to provide short-term employment to poor people during the lean season and to build productive assets in their communities and it has gradually been adapted to respond to women’s needs in terms of changing the location of work sites, allowing for piecework to accommodate women’s time constraints, and providing on-site childcare.

This document explores the barriers and opportunities to women's economic empowerment in El Salvador. It provides and in-depth analysis of women's participation in the civic and economic life, including key regulatory aspects, such women's legal autonomy in banking and finance services, access to justice and social security, among others. Finally, it provides recommendations for tailoring services to women entrepreneurs. 

This document explores the barriers and opportunities to women's economic empowerment in Honduras. It provides and in-depth analysis of women's participation in the civic and economic life, including key regulatory aspects, such women's legal autonomy in banking and finance services, access to justice and social security, among others. Finally, it provides recommendations for tailoring services to women entrepreneurs. 

This document provides a gender and inclusion analysis in Timor-Leste. It summarizes the legal and institutional framework in the country in regard to gender equality and describes an analysis of the sociocultural norms and power dynamics that can affect women participation and performance in economic activities, as well as the political and civil life. 

This document provides a gender and inclusion analysis in Ghana. It summarizes the legal and institutional framework in the country in regard to gender equality and describes an analysis of the sociocultural norms and power dynamics that can affect women participation and performance in economic activities, including access and control of resources, as well as their participation in the political and civil life. 

Coaching is used in 90 percent of economic inclusion programs and is increasingly seen as a critical component of such interventions (Andrews et al. 2021). It is a cross-cutting element in economic inclusion programming, facilitating all other components of a program and facilitating the ‘human side’ of interventions by providing participants with the extra support and advice they need to take full advantage of program resources.

This two-page brief summarizes the main recommendations of the publication "Coaching in Economic Inclusion: Learning from Existing Models and Casting a Way Forward". 

In PEI’s fourth In Focus publication, authors examine the informal economy of South Asia in the context of three stylized facts and explore how social and economic inclusion policies and programs can help address the realities of persistent informality for vulnerable people in poverty. 

This report consolidates 5 years of qualitative and quantitative research on the largest government-led scale of the Graduation Approach in the world, Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana (SJY). The insights gleaned from this extensive on-ground research have contributed significantly to developing, refining, and perfecting the innovative delivery of the Graduation Approach in Bihar. The programme is implemented and led by JEEViKA and is run in close collaboration with NGO Bandhan-Konnagar as the technical advisor and J-PAL South Asia as the knowledge and learning partner.

Between 2020 and 2022, the Grameen Foundation provided gender and power dynamics (GPD) training to key managerial, technical and administrative staff of partner organizations in Honduras, El Salvador, Ghana, Eswatini and Timor-Leste. The training's objective was to help organizations address harmful gender norms that limit women's participation in society, including their economic engagement. This report consolidates lessons learned from these workshops and provides practical recommendations to organizations interested in GPD training.

This three-pager summarizes recommendations for designing and implementing gender and power dynamics (GPD) training on the basis of the publication "Global Evaluation for Application of Grameen Foundation’s Gender and Power Dynamics Trainings within Women and Girls Empowered (WAGE) Initiatives".

This case study outlines how the project "Building resilience in the Sahel region through job creation for youth", strengthened the capacities of rural youth in their entrance in the agrifood system adopting green practices, while also empowering the national institutions tasked in supporting them. The case study also provides all the lessons learned throughout its implementation as well as details of the project’s evaluation.

This paper examines the “Enhanced Coastal Fisheries in Bangladesh” project, an extension of the Hilsa Fishery Management Action Plan (HFMAP), which started early in 2005. The ECOFISH-BD started in 2014 and it to include aspects of a “graduation” approach by providing adaptive co-management of the resource, training, alternative livelihood opportunities and support to ensure the inclusion of women and youth in the protected areas.