Publications

In PEI’s fifth In Focus publication, the author examines how human coaching—an essential component of economic inclusion programs—can be scaled through the integration of digital technologies. Drawing on fifteen years of practice and iteration at Fundación Capital, the paper traces the evolution of e-coaching across three stages—offline edutainment tools, chatbot-based systems,…

Economic inclusion programs have become one of the most effective and scalable approaches for reducing extreme poverty and expanding opportunity. By combining income support, skills training, coaching, and access to finance and markets, economic inclusion programs help people build sustainable livelihoods that deliver lasting gains in income, resilience, and agency, even in the most…

Fiscal Year 2025 marked a defining year for the Partnership for Economic Inclusion (PEI) as it deepened its support to governments leading the scale-up of economic inclusion programs worldwide. Through grants, technical assistance, and knowledge partnerships, PEI engaged 71 governments, influencing $6.5 billion in World Bank financing and directly supporting 26 programs in 24…

Powerpoint slides providing an overview of evidence on graduation programs in refugee and conflict-affected settings.

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Strohm, Rachel 2021. Graduation Programs in Refugee and Conflict-Affected Settings​. PowerPoint Slides. Innovations for Poverty Action

With the support of the MetLife Foundation, Trickle Up delivered a multidimensional intervention with elements of financial inclusion to economically empower vulnerable and marginalized women in Bangladesh, Mexico, and Vietnam. In Mexico, the project Empowering Women and Youth through the Graduation Approach and Financial Inclusion was contracted in September 2017, but due to operational and…

The State of Economic Inclusion Report (SEI) 2024 explores efforts to scale up economic inclusion programs - bundles of coordinated, multidimensional interventions that support individuals, households, and communities to sustainably increase their incomes and assets - in the context of overlapping crisis. These programs transform the economic lives of the poorest and most vulnerable people,…