Pilots
These are our pilots.
Haiti Chemen Lavi Miyo Program
Fonkoze’s graduation pilot is called Chemen Lavi Miyo, which means “Pathway to a Better Life” in Creole. The pilot project serves 150 families in three sites, in three of the poorest areas in Haiti: Boukan Kare, Twoudino, and Lagonav. Fonkoze is partnering with Concern Worldwide and Partners in Health to offer health services. Fonkoze is …
Bandhan Targeting the Hard-Core Poor Program
Bandhan launched Targeting Hard-Core Poor in 2007 to reach out to those below the scope of regular microfinance. The pilot covers 45 villages in Murshidabad, in northwest West Bengal. For more information on this pilot contact: thp@bandhan.org
Trickle Up Ultra Poor Program
Trickle Up launched the Trickle Up Ultra Poor Program in 2007 in partnership with the Human Development Centre (HDC) in Canning II Block, West Bengal. The pilot project was implemented in five districts in communities on the “West Bengal Backward Village List,” the poorest in the area. For more information on this pilot contact: asia@trickleup.org
SKS Ultra-Poor Program
Launched in 2007, SKS seeks to reach the poorest in Narayankhed in Medak District, Andhra Pradesh. Narayankhed is characterized by high levels of migration, poor wages, and many people who are too poor to qualify for conventional microfinance. For more information on this pilot contact Divakar.R@sksindia.com
Pakistan CGAP–Ford Foundation Graduation Pilot
The pilot project was launched in 2007. Program areas were selected based on their poor agro-environmental and socio-economic conditions (e.g. low numbers of livestock), poor infrastructure (e.g. difficult market accessibility), and high unemployment (especially, low numbers of government employees).
Honduras Mejoramiento Integral de la Familia Rural (MIRE)—Holistic Improvement of Rural Families Program
Mejoramiento Integral de la Familia Rural (MIRE) is jointly implemented by ODEF and Plan Honduras in 40 communities located in 10 municipalities of Lempira, in Western Honduras. Participating households receive assets to boost income-generating livelihoods, together with training on issues such as hygiene, health, agricultural and livestock production, and financial education. For more information on …
Peru CGAP–Ford Foundation Graduation Pilot
The Peru CGAP–Ford Foundation Graduation Pilot will be conducted in 80 communities in the provinces of Canas and Acomayo in Cusco, with the purpose of improving the living conditions of families in extreme poverty, empowering them socially and economically. The project will complement the work of a conditional cash transfer program, Juntos (Together), which currently …
Ethiopia CGAP-Ford Foundation Graduation Pilot
REST launched the CGAP-Ford Foundation Graduation Program in 2010 to reach the poorest recipients of the Government of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PNSP) in 10 sub-districts in Wukro, Tigray. REST selected program villages on the basis on the high number of PNSP beneficiaries, agro-ecological diversity, and accessibility to the main field office in Wukro. …
Yemen Graduation Out of Poverty Pilot
SWF provides cash transfers to 1.4 million participants in Yemen. It has partnered with the SFD in order to bring an additional set of services to the poorest people accessing safety nets in the three governorates of Aden, Lahj, and Taiz.
Ghana Graduation from Ultra Poverty Program
This program provides the ultra poor (the poorest of the poor, often earning less than $1 per day) with consumption support, livelihood training, transfer of productive asset, health education, and financial education with savings options over 24 months. The objective of the pilot is to help participants escape extreme poverty and graduate into sustainable livelihood …
About the Graduation Program
The CGAP-Ford Foundation Graduation Program is a global effort to understand how safety nets, livelihoods, and microfinance can be sequenced to create pathways for the poorest to graduate out of extreme poverty, adapting a methodology used by BRAC in Bangladesh.
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