Mercy Corps

Improving Nutrition with the Graduation Approach

Improving Nutrition with the Graduation Approach: A Technical Learning Brief (5.65 MB) Drawing inspiration from proven programs like BRAC's Ultra-Poor Graduation, the initiative combines social ...
WOSU Public Media

To 'graduate' from poverty, they can borrow to build a business. So why aren't they?

KYEGEGWA, Southwest Uganda — Economist Dean Karlan was perplexed. He'd come to a remote part of Uganda to check on a program he'd helped design to lift people out of extreme poverty. Only things weren ...
Mercy Corps

Improving Nutrition with the Graduation Approach

Improving Nutrition with the Graduation Approach: A Technical Learning Brief (5.65 MB) Drawing inspiration from proven programmes like BRAC's Ultra-Poor Graduation, the initiative combines social ...
Project Syndicate

The Big Push African Women Need to Escape Poverty

Research and experience have shown the effectiveness of providing women and girls living in extreme poverty with a productive asset, support to meet their basic needs, and long-term coaching and ...
UNHCR

Poverty Alleviation Coalition

Many displaced people live in extreme poverty. The most vulnerable among them are so poor that they can’t engage in activities from most regular livelihood programmes. They are also short of basic ...