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Submitted by Maya Ryandita on Fri, 07/12/2018 - 08:26
This Technical Guide provides a “how-to” roadmap for practitioners wishing to implement programs based on the graduation approach. The Guide draws on the lessons learned over the eight-year (2006-2014) course of a global pilot program involving 10 programs in...
Submitted by Maya Ryandita on Mon, 03/12/2018 - 08:42
In this paper, an innovative approach that BRAC has been experimenting with since 2002 to craft a graduation pathway for the ultra poor is described. Based on the experiences of implementing this approach and evaluation research, a number of key lessons for...
Submitted by Maya Ryandita on Mon, 03/12/2018 - 08:16
In 2009, Bandhan targeted 300 women in one of the poorest districts of West Bengal, India to implement the ‘Targeting the Hard Core Poor’ (THP) pilot. In this study, factors that have kept THP participants steady on the pathway out of poverty 3 years after...
Submitted by Maya Ryandita on Mon, 03/12/2018 - 08:13
After decades of trial and error, starting in 2002 BRAC began deploying a set of carefully sequenced measures tailored to the unique set of challenges faced by the ultra-poor. The results have been astonishing. Using intensive training and support deployed...
Submitted by Maya Ryandita on Fri, 30/11/2018 - 09:24
This paper assesses the impact of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Nets Programme (PSNP), the largest social protection programme in Sub-Saharan Africa outside of South Africa. The authors find that the programme has little impact on participants on average, due...
Submitted by Maya Ryandita on Fri, 30/11/2018 - 09:21
This paper proposes and illustrates a methodology to assess the economic cost of the sovereign risk finance instruments available to the Government of Ethiopia and its development partners for financing the shock-responsive scalability component of the...
Submitted by Maya Ryandita on Thu, 22/11/2018 - 09:55
This study report assesses the impact of the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) of Ethiopia and other food security and asset building programs on food security, assets, and agricultural production. It also examines whether these have led to investments in...
Submitted by Maya Ryandita on Thu, 22/11/2018 - 09:45
What is the relevance of Africa’s second largest social protection programme, Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), for other countries and especially for India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA)? Are there policy lessons to be noted and operational...
Submitted by Maya Ryandita on Thu, 22/11/2018 - 09:40
This one pager explores the relevance of the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) in Ethiopia for other countries implementing or considering public works or transfer (cash and/or food) programmes. The integration of public works and transfers enables PSNP...
