Savings and Enthusiasm Growing in REST’s Ethiopia Pilot
The Ethiopia CGAP-Ford Foundation Graduation Pilot is heading into its last phase and a review of its experience to date provides a snapshot of the progress possible through the Graduation approach, as well as the unpredictability of the challenges in helping the very poorest.
Ethiopia Graduation Pilot Film launched by The MasterCard Foundation
Earlier this year Mark Bushnell travelled to Tigray, Ethiopia to shoot a short film on the Ethiopia CGAP-Ford Foundation Graduation Program implemented by the Relief Society of Tigray (REST).
Ethiopia’s Poorest Ascend Out of Extreme Poverty
My name is Karishma Huda, and I am a Research Manager for BRAC Development Institute (BDI). Specifically, I manage the qualitative research for the CGAP-Ford Graduation pilots in Haiti, Ethiopia, India, and Pakistan. The objective of our research is simple – to understand how the Graduation Program is unfolding in the lives of its participants, …
Pilot Cross Exposure Visit to Ethiopia Graduation Pilot
My name is Feker Tadesse, a former CGAP employee and currently a graduate student at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. I spent the better part of the summer as a field researcher in Tigray, Ethiopia, where REST is implementing one the CGAP-Ford Foundation Graduation Pilots. I got the opportunity to visit field sites for …
The MasterCard Foundation and BRAC USA visit the Ethiopia Graduation Pilot
Ann Miles, The MasterCard Foundation and Susan Davis, BRAC USA went on a field visit to Relief Society of Tigray (REST) Ethiopia Graduation Program site in Tigray, Ethiopia in October, 2011. They recount their meeting with two program participants. Her hand shot up each time we asked a question. Asqual, a 25 year old single mother, …
Announcing Ethiopia Blog Series
In recent news, the devastating famine in East Africa has highlighted Ethiopia’s chronic food insecurity and vulnerability to drought. Yet despite the recent food crisis that has affected millions, there is a positive story from Tigray, northern Ethiopia. The Ethiopia Graduation Pilot was the first of the CGAP- Ford Foundation Graduation Pilots launched in 2010 …
