Scaling Sustainable Poverty Graduation in Rwanda

Village Enterprise developed a streamlined version of the poverty graduation model that has been rigorously tested and found to cost-effectively increase household consumption and assets for at least three and a half years.

Village Enterprise will partner with the Government of Rwanda to implement a wide-scale pilot of its poverty graduation program with 22,000 Rwandan households and train government staff to lead the implementation of a pilot program with an additional 8,000 households.

Village Enterprise and the Government of Rwanda will raise an additional $15 million to support the governments nationwide adoption and scale-up of a graduation program rooted in Village Enterprises approach, aiming to move more than one million Rwandans out of extreme poverty by 2026.