1. Graduation into Sustainable Livelihoods
Syed M. Hashemi
September 20, 2016

2. The Graduation Approach

3. Graduation Programming Growing 58 projects in 37 countries (Sept. 2016)
NB: On the map, each dot represents a project in a country (if there a several projects by same type of implementer in the country, then a number in the dot indicates the number of projects. In the legend, the numbers in parenthesis indicate the number of projects.
BRAC Bangladesh (1) – Since 2002
CGAP-Ford Foundation Pilots (10) –
NGO-implemented (30) – Since 2010
Donor-implemented (8) – Since 2013
Government-implemented (20) – Since 2013

4. POTENTIAL Platform Structure
Governance
Multi-Donor Trust Fund
HOST
Gender
CCD
Financial Inclusion
Disaster Response
CGAP
Poverty Metrics
Platform
Market Research
Platform Roles
Convening platform on Graduation and other related strategies for ending extreme poverty
Knowledge Management
Policy advocacy amongst funders, policy makers and practitioners
Incubator of rigorously tested new ideas and practices (incl. funding facilities)
Development of technical tools; facilitation of effective TA provision