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Janet Heisey, Program Director for Asia for Trickle Up, oversees the livelihood program in India, which enables extremely poor women to move up the economic ladder by establishing livelihoods, building skills, linking to safety net programs, and establish savings and credit groups.
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Economic Strengthening Pathways
Summary
This report summarizes the main issues raised during the e-consultation, “Economic-Strengthening
Pathways for the Bottom Billion: Connecting the Dots,” sponsored by Poverty Outreach Working
Group of The SEEP Network, May 17–19, 2011. A complete transcript of the discussion is available at
http://tinyurl.com/2011econsult
The e-consultation brought practitioners from different economic development disciplines together in
order to learn about one another’s recent innovations in reaching the very poor and helping them move
along an economic-strengthening pathway toward increased economic self-reliance and growth. By
better understanding various dimensions of extreme poverty and identifying different segments within
very poor populations, e-consultation participants started to lay a foundation for a common conceptual
framework for economic strengthening. This framework reveals relevant entry points for different
interventions and services along a pathway from extreme poverty to economic self-reliance.
