In early February 2020, during our second theory of change workshop, a team member asked if we needed to consider coronavirus in our assumptions. She was quickly dismissed as participants asked, “Is coronavirus in Uganda?” “Is it posing a threat to our communities?” One month later, on 17 March, Activity leadership provided guidance to field staff to be sure accurate and consistent messaging about COVID-19 was reaching all employees and subsequently, all participants.

Beginning in February 2019 and through the following 12 months of implementation, Graduating to Resilience Activity will provide consumption support in the form of monthly… Read More »Determining cash transfer amount to meet consumption needs

The first year for Graduating to Resilience concluded at the end of September, but the refinement period was extended by an additional three months until… Read More »Where we are now: Graduating to Resilience

The complexity of the context and the Activity interventions prompted the team to integrate Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) best practices into Activity design and… Read More »Collaborating, learning and adapting

The Graduation Approach seeks to empower ultra-poor households and individuals to reach and maintain conditions of greater economic self-sufficiency and resiliency in a sustainable and… Read More »Graduation Approach

From June-August, 2018, Graduating to Resilience conducted targeting exercises to identify eligible beneficiaries for the Activity. As part of this process, the team conducted two… Read More »Participatory Rural Appraisal

Uganda is currently experiencing record levels of refugee influx (approximately 1.1 million refugees[1]), which has brought key donors and actors such as the United Nations… Read More »The Graduating to Resilience Context