POVERTY GRADUATION; UGANDA
PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED
Gender focused poverty graduation program to ultra-poor women with resources to create sustainable businesses and permanently break the poverty cycle.
Learn more about the Poverty Graduation Challenge and why an evidence-based program that combines cash or asset transfers with mentorship and other forms of financial and social support helps graduate the ultra poor from poverty.
DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION
Rising Roots empowers last mile marginal households to access resilient and sustainable livelihoods through entrepreneurship.
Rising Roots uses a one year gender focused poverty graduation program to ultra-poor women with resources to create sustainable businesses and permanently break the poverty cycle. The program has six sequenced components: Targeting, Technical Business Training, Seed Capital, Business Savings Groups, Mentoring and Social Integration. The pilot program is implemented in Mayuge District.
PILOT AND SCALING GOALS
Enroll 60 ultra poor women into the poverty graduation program
Launch 20 group based businesses within the community
Raise an additional $15,000
FOUNDING TEAM
Nganda Ben - Program Director
Achen Grace - Field Coordinator
Balyebuga Kelvin - Strategic Partnership and Development Manager