Case Studies

iDE

iDE creates income and livelihood opportunities for poor, rural households.

BRAC

BRAC works on continuous improvement to its Skills Development Programme using operational data from the frontlines.

BOMA

BOMA implements a high-impact poverty graduation program for ultra-poor women in the drought-threatened arid lands.

Solar Sister

Solar Sister eradicates energy poverty by empowering women with economic opportunity.

Sistema.bio

Sistema.bio creates value from waste, providing biodigestors to treat waste, generate biogas, and organic fertilizer.

Iluméxico

Iluméxico provides access to solar systems to people living without electricity in remote, impoverished areas of Mexico.

SOIL Haiti

SOIL Haiti provides access to safe, dignified and ecological sanitation that produces organic compost as a natural resource.

GiveDirectly

GiveDirectly lets individual donors send money directly to those living in extreme poverty allowing recipients to decide how their aid dollars are spent.

Village Enterprise

Dedicated to ending extreme poverty in rural Africa through entrepreneurship and innovation.

RefugePoint

RefugePoint develops lasting solutions for at-risk refugees by offering resettlement assistance and building self-reliance through training.

Bridges to Prosperity

Bridges to Prosperity works with local communities and partners to construct footbridges that connect residents to education, health care and economic opportunity.

Fonkoze

Fonkoze brings financial inclusion and development services to Haitian women ranging from the ultra-poor to micro-entrepreneurs.

Tugende

Tugende uses asset financing, technology and robust customer support to help small and medium-sized enterprises own income-generating assets.

Oxfam

Oxfam's WISE, empowers female entrepreneurs in Latin America by providing business development training and coaching programs.

Street Business School

Street Business School is an non-profit providing entrepreneurial training for women to help them triple their incomes and lift their families out of poverty with dignity.

Hivos

Hivos supports the development of alternative solutions to deep-seated problems so that individuals and communities can make responsible and equitable choices within political and economic systems that serve their needs and preserve the planet.

Komaza

Komaza helps rural farmers grow trees as a cash crop, with the aim of using tree sales revenue to combat extreme poverty.