Innovations for Poverty Action

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011

Signed

Nov 7, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.3

Gross Receipts

$29,710,622

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

2.Remedial Education in Ghana: 2011 marks the first full year of operation for the Teacher Community Assistant Initiative (TCAI), IPA's scale up of a tested and proven remedial education program aimed at helping low-performing elementary students succeed in school. IPA studies in Kenya and India have shown that struggling elementary students dramatically increase their reading and math skills when instruction is focused at their level, and when students in the lower half of the class are taught basic skills separately from higher-performing kids. TCAI evolved out of these findings. In Ghana, efforts to improve school enrollment have resulted in close to 100 percent of young children attending school. Yet fewer than 20 percent of Ghanaian third graders meet proficiency standards in reading, writing, and math. TCAI aims to close the gap in learning levels for these children.

Activity 3

3.Ultra Poor Graduation Pilots in Seven Countries: People living in extreme poverty have distinct needs from their slightly better off peers. These needs led BRAC, a Bangladeshi nonprofit, to develop the "Targeting the Ultra-Poor" (TUP) program. IPA's Ultra-Poor Graduation Initiative, modeled after TUP, seeks to graduate households out of extreme poverty by providing a holistic set of services, including livelihood training, productive asset transfers, consumption support, savings plans, and health services. Early results from West Bengal, India show that this type of ultra-poor program leads to a 15-25 percent increase in household consumption in the first year after the program's completion. IPA is working to replicate the ultra-poor graduation model in India, Pakistan, Honduras, Peru, Ethiopia, Yemen, and Ghana.

Filer

EIN

06-1660068