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Graduation Program

The CGAP-Ford Foundation Graduation Program is a global effort to understand how safety nets, livelihoods, and microfinance can be sequenced to create pathways for the poorest to graduate out of extreme poverty, adapting a methodology developed by BRAC in Bangladesh. The CGAP-Ford Foundation Graduation Program is helping to implement nine Graduation Pilots in seven countries, in partnership with local organizations. Impact assessments and/or qualitative research are being implemented in all sites.
Graduation Program

Publications

Creating Pathways for the Poorest
Graduating the Poorest into Microfinance
Is Microfinance an Effective Strategy to Reach the Millennium Development Goals?
Linking Microfinance and Safety Net Programs to Include the Poorest

Pro Innovation Challenge

CGAP's poverty agenda has always focused on a commitment to demonstrate that the financial frontier could indeed be deepened to reach poorer people and that services can be designed to reduce their vulnerability and increase their economic well being. The Pro-Poor Innovation Challenge is a cornerstone of this agenda.
CGAP Pro-Poor Innovation Challenge

Features

Social Performance Reporting Awards Attract Strong Interest

Over 300 MFIs have responded already to the call for submissions to the second annual Social Performance Reporting Awards, demonstrating their commitment to transparent reporting on the social performance of their work.

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News and Events

Ethiopia Graduation Pilot Underway: The 500 participants in this Ethiopia Graduation Pilot have been selected, 80% of participants have already opened individual savings accounts, and asset transfers have just started.

Yemeni Government Launching a Graduation Pilot: The government's Social Fund for Development (SFD) and Social Welfare Fund (SWF) are launching the Yemen Graduation Pilot, with guidance from CGAP and the Ford Foundation. This pilot will reach 750 households in the governorates of Aden, Lahij, and Taiz.

New Graduation Pilot in Ethiopia: The Ethiopia Graduation Pilot was just launched. Relief Society of Tigray (REST), an Ethiopian multisector NGO, will implement the pilot in collaboration with Debit Credit & Savings Institute (DECSI), an MFI.

Graduation Program Meeting in Bangladesh: In November 2009, all nine partners in the CGAP-Ford Foundation Graduation Program met in Bangladesh to discuss early lessons learned on the model.

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Social Performance

Toward a Social Performance Bottom Line in Microfinance: This Brief discusses the industry's growing interest in social performance and new advances in measuring social performance and developing guidelines and tools for reporting.

Measuring the Social Performance of Microfinance Institutions: This Focus Note highlights the emerging emphasis on social performance in microfinance and reviews some of the assessment tools recently developed.

Assessing the Relative Poverty of Microfinance Clients: This CGAP tool measures the levels of poverty of clients relative to people within the same community through a poverty index that allows for comparisons between MFIs and across countries.


Savings

MFG Hot Topics: Savings
Interviews: Ask the Experts
Country-Level Savings Assessment Tool
Who are the Clients of Savings Banks?
Voluntary Long Term Contractual Savings Products in South Africa
The True Cost of Deposit Mobilization
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