From Extreme Poverty to Sustainable Livelihoods: A Technical Guide to the Graduation Approach (First Edition)

Aude de Montesquiou Tony Sheldon with Frank F. DeGiovanni and Syed M. Hashemi (September 2014)

This Technical Guide provides a “how-to” roadmap for practitioners wishing to implement programs based on the Graduation approach, an integrated, five-step methodology aimed at transitioning extremely poor populations into sustainable livelihoods. The Guide draws on the lessons learned over the eight-year (2006-2014) course of a global pilot program involving the 10 CGAP-Ford Foundation Graduation pilots implemented  in eight countries.