Strengthening Resilience to Extreme Poverty in Africa's Drylands: New Lessons in Poverty Graduation

• Join BOMA and the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk, and Resilience for an engaging conversation around recent research which affirms the impact of BOMA’s poverty graduation program — while also providing insight into ways to strengthen such programs for maximum impact. Dr. Michael Carter, Director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets Risk and Resilience, will be joined in conversation by BOMA's Chief Scaling Officer Dr. Sam Owilly. This discussion will take place in-person at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. from 8:30 – 11 a.m. on April 21, 2022. A livestream of this event will be available via Twitter for guests who would prefer to attend virtually.
  
  Poverty graduation programs combine training and assets for rural households with the least means to build a sustainable and independent income. Since 2017, the Feed the Future Innovation Lab has been evaluating the impacts of BOMA’s program among women in pastoralist communities who face a regular threat of severe drought. A recent analysis found that the program yielded substantial economic benefits for women directly enrolled as well as their non-enrolled neighbors. Results also show that levels of depression and the saturation of programming reduced those benefits significantly. Going forward, these results provide guidance for optimal program saturation and targeting to generate the greatest benefits.
  
  Founded 15 years ago to eliminate extreme poverty among pastoralist women in Kenya, BOMA has since transformed the lives of more than 350,000 women, youth and refugees in Africa’s drylands. Today, BOMA is working to lift 3 million people out of extreme poverty by 2027.The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience develops and tests financial and market innovations that take the most promising agricultural tools for families in developing economies from the lab to the field.

Event RSVP Link: https://www.linkedin.com/events/6920336327452303360

BOMA Website: www.bomaproject.org

Feed the Future Lab Website: https://basis.ucdavis.edu/