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  How the Graduation Approach Works With Social Protection Programs

  The question of how graduation approaches can work with existing social protection programs is becoming central to efforts of governments, funders and implementers as they consider how to effectively reduce poverty and increase resiliency. New learnings were on display at the 2016 RESULTS Annual Conference, where a group of graduation advocates and practitioners from Uplift, BRAC, Fundación Capital, RESULTS and Trickle Up explored what new research is showing on the effectiveness of graduation in different...

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• • uplift news

  Uplift welcomes Anne Hastings to the team

  Uplift, Amplifier’s collaborative initiative to eradicate extreme poverty, is excited to welcome Anne Hastings to the team. Anne spent almost two decades in the leadership of Fonkoze – Haiti’s largest microfinance institution. She is a Founder of Fonkoze Financial Services, S.A. created in July 2004. In 2008, she was honored at the United Nations because of her commitment to the elimination of extreme poverty. Recently, Anne had the opportunity, after three years away, to return...

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  Now is the time to invest in Graduation

  In May 2015, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)–two of the most renowned research organizations in the world–published an article in Science Magazine demonstrating that the Graduation Approach is not only tremendously effective, but it has a lasting impact on the lives of the least well off. For far too many the poverty trap is inescapable. The lack of assets leads to no job opportunities which in...

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• • impact stories

  Women are the key to sustainable development

  “Women are the managers of poverty, in the sense that women manage poor households, looking after the children, their food, their needs, If the managers of poverty are women, why not also managers of development?” said founder and chairperson of BRAC Sir Fazle Hasan Abed to students at the Yale School of Management on September 30.” Sir Abed spoke on “Leading Development in Bangladesh” as part of Yale SOM’s Leaders Forum lecture series, which brings...

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