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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
CombatClimate Change Impacts
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40% of African continent
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