Publications

The State of Economic Inclusion Report (SEI) 2024 explores efforts to scale up economic inclusion programs - bundles of coordinated, multidimensional interventions that support individuals, households, and communities to sustainably increase their incomes and assets - in the context of overlapping crisis. These programs transform the economic lives of the poorest and most vulnerable people,…

The PEI Partnership Guide seeks to reflect the values, thinking, approaches, and commitments of the Partnership for Economic Inclusion (PEI). The guide draws on the experiences and lessons in setting up PEI, which was formalized in April 2018. The guide has three primary functions: (1) To set out an overall vision and work strategy for PEI; (2) To serve as an organizing framework for…

This technical guide provides a roadmap for those wishing to implement programs based on the graduation approach—an integrated, carefully sequenced, multi-dimensional intervention to address extreme poverty. This second edition of the Guide captures all the lessons learned and good practice from the early stages of graduation implementation but it is especially aimed at government policymakers…

This annual report details the operational activities of PEI's Multi-Donor Trust Fund, from the signing of Administrative Agreements in March 2019 to June 2019. During this start-up period, the PEI team focused on strengthening partnership and collaboration across the community of practice, cementing the infrastructure for improved knowledge sharing, and, most critically, supporting close…

Economic inclusion programs for the poorest show strong potential as part of integrated policy responses focused on containing the pandemic, ensuring food security, and supporting medium-term recovery. 

This note considers initial adaptations and early priorities in economic inclusion programs to support medium- and longer-term recovery efforts. The note is intended to be a resource for…

The State of Economic Inclusion Report 2021, to be published in several months, will shed light on one of the most stubborn challenges in development: transforming the economic lives of people in extreme poverty and vulnerability. The full report will emerge at a moment of global crisis, amidst the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, which looks set to push more than 80 million people into…