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Poverty is a multidimensional problem, including inadequate access to nance, health services, productive livelihoods, and education, and no single intervention can tackle it in isolation. ADB projects, however, don’t always take a holistic approach to poverty reduction.
The graduation approach is a social protection innovation that builds on the foundation of social assistance with a holistic set of poverty reduction interventions for poor households. The approach tackles the multiple facets of deprivation through carefully sequenced and timebound solutions, usually delivered over 18–36 months. The interventions combine targeted social assistance with an asset transfer, support for nancial inclusion, tailored skills training, livelihood development, social inclusion, and psychosocial support. Based
on promising global evidence, ADB is now testing and evaluating several variations of the graduation approach in the Philippines. The graduation approach has become a model for innovation within ADB. The project pooled funding from four regional technical assistance projects for innovation, civil society participation, social protection, and impact evaluation, collectively demonstrating what e ective engagement with diverse stakeholders, including nongovernment organizations, government agencies, and research institutes, looks like.
Find out more:
• Regional: Unlocking Innovation for Development
• Developing Impact Evaluation Methodologies, Approaches, and
Capacities in Selected Developing Member Countries (Subproject 1) • Deepening Civil Society Engagement for Development E ectiveness • Regional: Enhancing ADB’s Support for Social Protection to Achieve
the Sustainable Development Goals
Watch a video:
• Four Things to Know About the Graduation Approach • Watch an Insight Thursday presentation
Read an ADB blog: What is the graduation approach?
“The social development thematic group established a graduation working group comprising experts across departments and divisions to support project design, implementation, evaluation, and knowledge generation on graduation across ADB. In this way, a ‘One ADB’ team is demonstrating how the graduation approach can contribute to Strategy 2030.”
Amir Jilani
Social Sector Economist
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