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Social accountability for ending extreme poverty: researching an advocacy strategy

Institute of Development Studies

Project theme Citizen engagement and voice  Civil society advocacy  Open and responsive government  Radio  Technologies for transparency and accountability  Video 



Project type Research 



Country Haiti 



Support £48,000



In partnership with Quisqueya University, Haiti
“There is little doubt that scaling up ‘extreme poverty graduation’ programmes has the potential to make a decisive contribution to development priorities.” — Quisqueya University

37%

is the rate of extreme poverty in rural Haiti, which remains unchanged since 2001

8%

of the Haitian population received social assistance benefits in 2012

Start date
May 2016 End date
July 2017
Period: 15 months

Issue

World Bank analysis indicates that without special measures, Haiti will not meet the target of reducing extreme poverty to less than 3% by 2030.

The non-governmental organisation Fonkoze uses the ‘extreme poverty graduation’ approach to tackle this problem, which has already moved more than 5,000 households out of extreme poverty and continues to empower poor women.

Project

The graduation approach could also support the government’s strategic development plan for poverty reduction.

Fonkoze advocates for government support for this approach, and uses its evidence base – including the media, radio and film – to advocate for a national graduation policy.

This action research project will map how such an advocacy strategy can increase a government’s social accountability to the extreme poor.

Partner

The lead researcher is Martin Greeley at the Institute of Development Studies. The Institute of Development Studies is a leading global institution for development research, teaching and learning, and impact and communications. It is based at the University of Sussex, UK.

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