Publications

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,…

The PEI Partnership Guide seeks to reflect the values, thinking, approaches, and commitments of the Partnership for Economic Inclusion (PEI). The guide draws on the experiences and lessons in setting up PEI, which was formalized in April 2018. The guide has three primary functions: (1) To set out an overall vision and work strategy for PEI; (2) To serve as an organizing framework for…

This technical guide provides a roadmap for those wishing to implement programs based on the graduation approach—an integrated, carefully sequenced, multi-dimensional intervention to address extreme poverty. This second edition of the Guide captures all the lessons learned and good practice from the early stages of graduation implementation but it is especially aimed at government policymakers…