GUIDANCE BRIEF
Child Sensitive Graduation Programming: A Guidance Brief for Country Offices
Graduation programmes consist of targeting poor households with a combination of layered and sequenced interventions, often over a defined period of time, in order to facilitate the achievement of strengthened and sustainable livelihoods.
To ‘graduate’, a household needs to meet a criteria that indicate their livelihood strategies can secure a level of income sustainably, in addition to meeting a set of conditions that will protect their livelihoods from stresses that could result in a slippage back into poverty.
This guidance paper provides an overview of Graduation Programming for Country Offices, including;
Definitions and outcomes
Examples from Save the Children programming
Technical components
Measuring outcomes
Ensuring child sensitivity
