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Graduation Models

The graduation model incorporates the targeting and transfer elements of safety net programs, and introduces entrepreneurial activity through training, an asset grant, and credit. The key to the graduation model is the careful sequencing of several development services to facilitate consumption stability and, subsequently, enterprise development.
For more information please contact Syed Hashemi (hashemi@bracu.ac.bd) or Aude de Montesquiou (ademontesquiou@cgap.org).
Graduation Models

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

Graduation pilots: Creating opportunity for the extreme poor

A new CGAP brief discusses how CGAP and the Ford Foundation are exploring a new way to help the poor “graduate” from extreme poverty.


News and Events

CGAP leads commitment to move people out of extreme poverty: New approach to sustainable development for the poorest of the poor to get a boost at Clinton Global Initiative. Fresh commitment to help the ultra poor move out of poverty led by CGAP.

First Awardees of the Social Performance Reporting Award: Over 80 MFIs have already applied! The efforts of four MFIs to increase social transparency in their institutions were recognized in Madrid during the Social Performance Task Force Annual Meeting. For more information.

Announcement: Social Performance Reporting Award: Entries are now open for this new Award, which recognizes transparency in social performance reporting. The deadline has been extended until Sept 30, 2009.

SKS Graduates First Group of Clients: The first batch of members completed the program in early May 2009. Out of 202 members155 women “graduated”.

Haiti Graduation Pilot Client Testimonies: Watch Fonkoze’s audio slideshow featuring several Chemen Lavi Miyò clients' stories.

First Chemen Lavi Miyò Graduation in Haiti: Watch Fonkoze’s video of the graduation ceremony in Boukan Kare.

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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