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S6 Ep14: Graduation programmes: BRAC’s approach to targeting the ultra-poor

34 min • 9 april 2025

The Graduation approach to helping people to escape from poverty was pioneered in 2002 by BRAC in Bangladesh. Today the approach is used around the world. In more than 20 years, what have we learned about how it works, when it works best, and how to implement it at scale? Shameran Abed, the Executive Director of BRAC International talks to Tim Phillips about how the Graduation approach reaches people that other programmes miss, why it works, and how it can be scaled up to meet needs around the world.

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The BRAC Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative

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