Highrise apartments along the railway line in Kibera, Nairobi. The apartments are part of the Kibera Slum Upgrading Project, September 2016. [Jacob Otieno, Standard] Over the years, Africa has had ...

Improving Nutrition with the Graduation Approach: A Technical Learning Brief (5.65 MB) Drawing inspiration from proven programs like BRAC's Ultra-Poor Graduation, the initiative combines social ...

Improving Nutrition with the Graduation Approach: A Technical Learning Brief (5.65 MB) Drawing inspiration from proven programmes like BRAC's Ultra-Poor Graduation, the initiative combines social ...

KYEGEGWA, Southwest Uganda — Economist Dean Karlan was perplexed. He'd come to a remote part of Uganda to check on a program he'd helped design to lift people out of extreme poverty. Only things weren ...

Research and experience have shown the effectiveness of providing women and girls living in extreme poverty with a productive asset, support to meet their basic needs, and long-term coaching and ...

Dean Karlan (in blue shirt) meets with a group of refugees in southwest Uganda to hear about their experience with a program that offers loans to help them "graduate" from poverty. (Claire Harbage/NPR ...