Kathleen ColsonCEO & Co-Founder

April 2016

Poverty Graduation Program Where: Northern Kenya

Who: A Gender-focused High-impact Model for Ultra-Poor Women

Poverty Graduation Program

Poverty Graduation ProgramWhat: A Two Year Program of Sequenced Interventions

BOMA Village Mentor

Village-Resident Staff Member

Step #1:

Community Entry, Targeting and Baseline Survey

Three Women Run a Business

2. Cash TransferInitial Jump Grant

Conditional Performance

Grant

Step #2:

$300 (30,000 KES)

Cash Transfer for Business Start-up for three women

Step # 3 Training

Financial Literacy

Gender Focused Life Skills

Access to Resources

Step #4:

Mentoring & Coaching

Step # 5: Savings, Micro-trainings and Access to Credit

6. Financial Inclusion

Step #6: Financial Inclusion

Formal Banking

Mobile Banking

A Data-Driven Program: Monitoring

Monitoring Field Staff and Monthly Data Collection

CASH TAKEN AS INCOME THIS MONTHLocation Name Average Amount

of Cash Taken From Biz

Archers post 0Badasa 2KDhirib Gombo 4KDukana 0Galas 380Gatab 50Illaut 2KKalacha 801Karare 883Kargi 197Korr 159

FOOD TAKEN AS INCOME THIS MONTHLocation Name Average Amount

of FOOD Taken from Biz

Archers post 0Badasa 210Dhirib Gombo 245Dukana 0Galas 340Gatab 30Illaut 905Kalacha 132Karare 671Kargi 1KKorr 371

• Two Productive Assets that produce income

(business and livestock)

• BOMA business value of $280 (28,000 KES)

• Savings of $225 (22,500 KES) - 877% increase

• Access to credit up to $500 (50,000 KES)

• 167% increase in Tropical Livestock Units

May 2015 Endline

• Household eating two meals day

• 63% decline in children going hungry

• Children in school including girls

Child and Household Impacts

2900+businesses

At 3 years 97% still in operation

Food security• No child going to bed without an evening

meal• Household members eat two meals a day

Sustainable Livelihoods• Productive asset base/value of the BOMA

business is 25% higher than the total of original cash transfer

• Participant can access multiple productive assets (i.e. a business, livestock)

Graduation Criteria

Shock Preparedness• Member of a savings group (with formal

constitution and credit and loan protocols), has access to credit, and has a minimum of KES 8000 in committed savings.

Human Capital Investment• All eligible primary school-aged girl children are

enrolled in primary school.• Participant has an increased role in household

decision making

Graduation Criteria

Graduation Rate

93%of women graduate from extreme povertyat two years

One-time cost of $283 (28,300 KES) per woman for two-year intervention

Hunger Safety Net Program

2500 KES per month

60,000 KES for two years ($600)

Hunger Safety Net Program

$600 for two years HSNPvs$273 one-time investment in poverty graduation

Turning people who are liabilities into people who are assets

Humanitarian Response

$1 invested in resiliency programming

Saves $7 inhumanitarian funding

56,437 women and children100,000 by 2018

Scaling to1,000,000 Government AdoptionPartnerships with NGO’s

UN Sustainable Development Goals

End Extreme Poverty

End Hunger

Empower Women and Girls

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