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Pathways Out of Poverty

Evaluation results show that our participants have made significant improvements in income, assets, and financial inclusion.

The “Pathways out of Poverty for India’s Ultra Poor” project sought to enable women participants and their households to develop the skills, resources and connections to grow and sustain livelihoods that move and keep them out of extreme poverty.

This report presents findings from a quasi-experimental evaluation that aimed to estimate the impact and outcomes of our Trickle Up’s Graduation program. Our emphasis is on the differences we found between participants in West Bengal, India and a comparison group in the same communities.

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MPowered by Knowledge, Driven by Women

What happens when women living on less than $1.25 a day are given not just tools, but the power to choose how to use them? The MPowered project, implemented from 2016 to 2023 across Jharkhand and Odisha, set out to answer that question—with a bold combination of...