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The Graduation Project will support the Colombian government in the development and implementation of an innovative policy to provide pathways out of extreme poverty in Colombia. At the same time, it will seek to put the fight against poverty – and specifically the graduation approach – on public policy agendas throughout the region.
The term “graduation” has multiple meanings in social policy, reflecting different types of interventions with varying scopes and limitations. The two main meanings, which define the scope of this project, are the following
•Sustainable graduation implies advancing from extreme poverty to an improved and more stable socio-economic situation: one in which, although still living with scant resources, individuals are able to strengthen their assets, mainly productive assets, and undertake activities that generate income and allow for a better quality of life and for withstanding unexpected shocks without slipping back into extreme poverty.
•Threshold graduation refers to the exit from social assistance programs, especially Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) programs.
There are currently numerous graduation initiatives, in various incarnations, underway across the globe. The lessons learned from these programs will be of vital importance to the government in Colombia, which has named as its objective the graduation of 350,000 families living in extreme poverty between 2010-2014. Fundación Capital, in close collaboration with the Colombian government, will put in place at least two pilot programs in an effort to achieve that goal.
At the regional level, the Graduation Project will focus on knowledge management by documenting and extracting lessons learned in Colombia, Latin America, and around the world, providing practitioners and policymakers with the tools and methodologies needed to initiate and perfect graduation policies.
The Graduation Project is an initiative of Fundación Capital, and is supported by the Ford Foundation.
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