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Building Self-Reliance for Refugees

As of 2018, over 70 million people have been forced to flee their homes to escape persecution and conflict
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In 2013, UNHCR engaged Trickle Up to design, implement and test the Graduation
Approach (GA) in refugee settings in Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, and
Zambia.

This project brief summarizes an independent evaluation of Trickle Up’s performance against four project objectives; the appropriateness of the GA for refugees; and initial recommendations on how organizations can apply a refugee lens to Graduation programs.

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From Daily Wage Labor to New Dreams: Sugiya’s Story of Change

by Trickle Up | June 9, 2026 | Blog Posts, Economic Empowerment, Featured Home 1 | 0 Comments

Until 2020, Sugiya Devi’s life in Tand Balidih Gram Panchayat, India, was modest but stable. That stability was shattered when her husband passed away suddenly due to illness, leaving her alone to care for four young children, the youngest only two years old....
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