Rising Roots

POVERTY GRADUATION; UGANDA

PROVEN INTERVENTION TO BE DISTRIBUTED

Gender focused poverty graduation program to ultra-poor women with resources to create sustainable businesses and permanently break the poverty cycle.

Learn more about the Poverty Graduation Challenge and why an evidence-based program that combines cash or asset transfers with mentorship and other forms of financial and social support helps graduate the ultra poor from poverty.

DISTRIBUTION MODEL INNOVATION

Rising Roots empowers last mile marginal households to access resilient and sustainable livelihoods through entrepreneurship.

Rising Roots uses a one year gender focused poverty graduation program to ultra-poor women with resources to create sustainable businesses and permanently break the poverty cycle. The program has six sequenced components: Targeting, Technical Business Training, Seed Capital, Business Savings Groups, Mentoring and Social Integration. The pilot program is implemented in Mayuge District.

PILOT AND SCALING GOALS

  • Enroll 60 ultra poor women into the poverty graduation program

  • Launch 20 group based businesses within the community

  • Raise an additional $15,000

FOUNDING TEAM

Nganda Ben - Program Director

Achen Grace - Field Coordinator

Balyebuga Kelvin - Strategic Partnership and Development Manager