Title: Poverty Outreach Models at Work Data and Experience from Promising Practice
1Poverty Outreach Models at Work - Data and
Experience from Promising Practice
2LEEP Moving the poor above the poverty line
- A Poverty Outreach Model
- From ChildFund International
3The LEEP Strategy
- The 2004 starting point a desire to lift
poor families above the poverty line. - Design Question
- What package of interventions would help a
very poor family achieve a minimum of
Rs. 24000 net income per annum?
4LEEP Minimum Standard
- Government of India definition of poverty
Rs.24000 annual income per family
5The LEEP Model
- Market Assessment Linkages
- Technical Training Support
- Mentoring Follow-up
6Market Led Approachselection of a priority
activity based on
7Technical Training Support
8Mentoring Follow-up
- Income monitoring
- Links to service providers
- SHG mutual support
9LEEP Program Areas
54 districts in 12 states
10POVERTY OUTREACH
No. families 32,260 Time to
move above the poverty line 3-5
years
11IMPACT
- Only anecdotal evidence
- Need data on income
- progress out of poverty
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13Sustainability Achieved
- Enterprise Level
- Producers have skills that allow continued
profitable operation - Market Level
- Producers face a profitable and growing market
- Service Provider Level
- Quality and value added of TA results in
market for para-veterinarian services and access
to agriculture extension agents
14LEEP Poverty Outreach Lessons
- Support a limited number of activities that have
strong market start with income potential not
enterprise preferences - Judge success as the ability to generate a target
income - Provide an on-going support structure initial
skills training is not enough
15Graduation Program
- A Poverty Outreach Model
- From CGAP-Ford Foundation
16CGAP - Ford Foundation Graduation Program
17graduating out of extreme poverty
Microcredit is not appropriate Savings are
important, but not enough Safety nets are
generally focused on program duration
18what is graduation ?
creating ladders
safety nets livelihoods microfinance
sequencing
19how the model works
20Nine pilots in seven countries
Haiti - India - Pakistan - Honduras - Peru -
Ethiopia - Yemen
21under close scrutiny
understanding change
quantitative research qualitative research
measuring impact
22early numbers
Fonkoze, Haiti 150 participants 143graduated 95
graduation rate
Bandhan, West Bengal, India 300 participants 292
graduated 97 graduation rate
SKS, Andhra Pradesh, India 426 participants 414
graduated 97 graduation rate
Trickle Up, West Bengal, India 300 participants
258 graduated 86 graduation rate
23gradauting lessons
learning
targeting - consumption support - savings -
asset transfer - value chains - building
confidence
assumptions
24early lessons
learning
targeting - consumption support - savings -
asset transfer - value chains - building
confidence
assumptions
25targeting the poorest
26Sequencing is crucial
Building blocks sequencing is crucial
- Helps create breathing space
- Regularity fosters trust
- Cash allows financial education and savings
Consumption support
- Need to fit into the value chain
- Mix short and long term assets. Diversify to
mitigate risks - Support services are key (vets, irrigation etc)
Asset transfer
- Need literacy training to encourage usage
- Helps build assets
- Favours financial discipline
Savings
- Ongoing coaching complements classroom
training - Setting graduation goals early is important
- Group meetings and village assistance committees
help
Building confidence
27still learning
www.cgap.org/graduation
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29Saving for Change
- A Poverty Outreach Model
- From Oxfam America
30Saving for Change
31Save
32Borrow
33Save and Repay
34Distribute funds at end of cycle
35Innovations (Oral Record Keeping)
36Innovations (Pictorial Manual)
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38Scale (Members)
39Group Funds in US
40Replication Key to scale and sustainability
- Animators form savings groups
- Animators select group members to be replicators
- Train replicators
- Equip them with Pictorial Manual
- Replicators form savings groups
41Data on Replication
Animator Replicator
42Data on Replication
43Cumulative Cost Per member (US)
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44Qualitative Research Findings
- Reaches poorest
- Increased food security
- Funds used to
- Investment in trade and agriculture
- Pay school fees
- Purchase medicine
- Purchasing animals
45Sustainability
- Group members are able to manage their financial
operations without assistance - Group members continue operations well beyond the
project period - Replicators continue forming and supporting
groups beyond the project period
46Data on Sustainability
- 78 of groups operate independently
- 99 of members continue with the group
- 90 of women in villages covered by SfC
47Randomized Control Trial
- 500 villages 210 treatment, 290 control
- Savings and borrowing
- Investment, income and assets
- Food security
- Health and education
- Social capital
- Womens empowerment
48Challenges
- Replicators training groups in other villages
- Training mature groups
49Thank You