Topic: Cash Transfer

OPINION: Global leaders are funding a historic COVID response for the world’s poorest countries, but will it reach those who need it most?

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By Shameran Abed | Executive Director, BRAC International; Joanne Carter | Executive Director, RESULTS; and Barbara Jackson |  Vice President: Programs, TrickleUp Far from the limelight, global leaders are on the cusp of striking a historic and unprecedented financing deal for spurring pandemic recovery through the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), a mechanism overseen … Continued

Report from the Field: A Conversation with Marlowe Popes, Field Manager, Philippines

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When Marlowe Popes joined the Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative in 2017 as BRAC Field Manager for the DOLE Graduation pilot, he never imagined he’d be guiding his team and almost two thousand project participants through a pandemic. When one of the world’s longest running lockdowns began in the Philippines due to COVID-19, Marlowe’s team was tasked with … Continued

Climate change is destroying people’s lives. Should they be compensated? – Devex

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By Amy Lieberman | U.N. Correspondent, Devex This article originally appeared in Devex on December 21, 2020. Climate change disproportionately impacts the world’s most impoverished. So, experts are asking, why can’t they receive direct compensation and support? …“Most people wouldn’t readily say that they are moving because of climate change. They are looking at the … Continued

Opinion: How to find a resilient solution to extreme poverty – Devex

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By Emily Coppel | Director of Communications, BRAC USA This article originally appeared in Devex on October 17, 2016. In the last two weeks, the devastation in Haiti from Hurricane Mathew has grown more and more shocking. Families woke up to see their neighborhoods in tatters, and the number of recorded deaths has risen to … Continued

Cash Versus Cows (Part 2): What’s more scalable – cash transfers or in-kind transfers? – NextBillion

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By Sadna Samaranayake | Program Manager, BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative and Rod Dubitsky, Senior Advisor and Chief Knowledge Officer, BRAC USA This article originally appeared in NextBillion on December 16, 2014. Successfully catapulting households over the extreme poverty line is incredibly hard work, and it requires philanthropic capital and grant-based approaches. In this second part … Continued