Graduation Implementers
This Bangladesh-based organization is credited with pioneering the original Ultra-Poor Graduation approach in the early 2000's.
What is BRAC?
This common piece of furniture has four legs and a back and is designed for one person.
What is a chair?
This hand tool is used to drive nails into wood.
What is a hammer?
This provides insights into which interventions achieve a given non-monetized outcome at the lowest cost.
What is cost-effectiveness analysis?
This evergreen decoration is commonly brought indoors and decorated with lights and ornaments in December.
What is a Christmas tree?
This organization implement graduation programming in East Africa and is known for implementing a lighter-touch, group-based adaptation of the model.
What is Village Enterprise?
This long, backless seat is often found in parks, locker rooms, or at dining tables.
What is a bench?
This tools is used to tighten or loosen screws with a cross-shaped head.
What is a Phillips-head screwdriver?
This method monetizes benefits and costs to assess whether a program generates net social value.
What is cost-benefit analysis?
This tradition involved exchanging wrapped gifts.
What is gift-giving?
This U.S.-based nonprofit implements graduation programs globally, with a strong focus on women's economic empowerment. They are known for using digital tools to deliver coaching, training, and savings support to participants.
What is Trickle Up?
This soft, shapeless seat is filled with small beads and molds to your body when you sit on it.
What is a bean bag chair?
This measuring tool ensures cuts are made at a right angle.
What is a carpenter's square?
This metric summarizes the social discount rate that would set costs equal to benefits and allows comparison to alternative investments or uses of capital.
What is Internal Rate of Return?
This staple food, often served with meat, vegetables, or stew, is commonly part of Christmas or holiday meals in east Africa. Some might says they've not eaten if this isn't present.
What is ugali?
Rather than NGOs, this type of actor increasingly leads graduation implementation when programs are embedded in national safety net systems.
What is a national government?
This raised seat is traditionally associated with monarchs or ceremonial authority.
What is a throne?
This tool checks whether a surface is perfectly horizontal or vertical.
What is a level?
This metric is often used to understand a program's impact on multiple social outcomes. Donors often use this metric when deciding if they should support or scale up a program.
What is Social Return on Investment?
This figure is said to deliver presents to children on the night of December 24th.
Who is Santa Claus?
Rather than implementing directly, this team supports governments and NGOs by setting standards, providing technical assistance, and stewarding global Graduation learning and discussions.
This wheeled, adjustable seat is commonly used at desks and typically includes armrests.
What is an office chair?
This adjustable tool is commonly used to grip and turn nuts, bolts, or pipes.
What is an adjustable wrench?
This is used to test how sensitive value-for-money results are to assumptions such as discount rates, benefit duration, or outcome definitions.
What is sensitivity analysis?
This seasonal activity involves singing festive songs door to door or at community gatherings.
What is caroling?