Library items filed under: Qualitative Research
“It was as if we were drowning”: shocks, stresses and safety nets in India
Abstract: “It was If we were drowning”: shocks, stresses and safety nets in India Government social protection schemes and conventional microfinance interventions have struggled to reach the poorest and help them escape the confines of extreme poverty. In response, BRAC in Bangladesh experimented with an innovative approach that combined livelihood creation, financial services, and social safety …
Trickle Up ULTRA POOR PROGRAM: Qualitative Assessment of Sustainability of Program Outcomes
This report presents findings from BRAC Development Institute’s (BDI) final qualitative evaluation of the Trickle Up Ultra Poor Program in West Bengal, India. This study is second in a series of post pilot assessments of CGAP – Ford Foundation Graduation pilots currently in scale up phase. Trickle Up UP Program Final Qualitative Assessment
Can Basic Entrepreneurship transform the Economic Lives of the Poor? – DRAFT (June 2012)
The world’s poorest people lack both capital and skills and typically engage in insecure and often seasonal occupations where they labor for others. The non-poor, in contrast, tend to be employed in running their own businesses or in secure wage employment. Whether the lack of capital and skills determines occupational choice and poverty is however …
Impact: What Do We Know so Far? – Qualitative Research Findings
Qualitative Research Findings
Targeting—What Strategy, for What Purpose? – Insights from Honduras and Peru – Qualitative Research
Insights from Honduras and Peru – Qualitative Research
SOAS Discussion Paper- Productive safety nets for women in extreme poverty: Lessons from pilot projects in India and Pakistan
Summary Conventional government schemes and microfinance interventions have struggled to reach the poorest people and help them escape the confines of extreme poverty. In response, BRAC, Bangladesh’s largest non-governmental organisation (NGO), developed an innovative approach that combined livelihood creation, financial services and safety nets in order to ‘graduate’ participants out of extreme poverty and toward …
Pathways out of the Productive Safety Net Programme: Lessons from Graduation Pilot in Ethiopia
This paper presents findings from the qualitative research of the Graduation Pilot in Ethiopia. As part of the Graduation Research team at BRAC Development Institute (BDI), I followed the lives of 22 participants in the Ethiopia Graduation Pilot.Faced with severe food insecurity and scarce livelihood opportunities, much of the rural population depends on the Productive Safety Net …
SKS Ultra Poor Program: Qualitative Evaluation of Sustainability of Program Outcomes
This report presents findings from BRAC Development Institute’s (BDI) final qualitative evaluation of the SKS Ultra Poor Program in Andhra Pradesh, India. This study is the first of a series of evaluations of CGAP – Ford Foundation Graduation pilots currently scaling up.
“And Who Listens to the Poorest? Shocks, safety nets, and stresses in India and Pakistan
Conventional government schemes and microfinance interventions have struggled to reach the poorest people and help them escape the confines of extreme poverty. In response, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) experimented with an innovative approach that combined livelihood creation, financial services and safety nets in order to ‘graduate’ participants out of extreme poverty and towards …
‘Productive Safety Nets for Women in Extreme Poverty’
This paper focuses upon two Graduation Programme implementations – one by Trickle Up in West Bengal, India, and the other by Orangi Charitable Trust (OCT) in Sindh, Pakistan. We use the ‘critical moments’ framework developed in Kabeer (2008) to understand the conceptualisation of this project in response to a particular set of constraints (and opportunities), …
