Programme Overview:
National Poverty Graduation Programme (NPGP) is funded by International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) and Government of Pakistan. The Programme is being implemented through a Project Management Unit under Ministry of Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety as Lead Programme Agency, and its eight partner organizations in 21 districts of four provinces of Pakistan. The programme aims “to assist the ultra-poor and very poor in graduating out of poverty on a sustainable basis while simultaneously improving their overall food security, nutritional status, and resilience to climate change’’. The development objective of the project is “to enable the rural poor and especially women and youth to realize their development potential and attain a higher level of social and economic wellbeing through a proven, flexible, and responsive menu of assistance’’.
The program is consisted of two major components:
- Poverty Graduation: The first component mainly focuses on assets creation, interest-free loan and training of assets and IFL beneficiaries.
- Social Mobilization and Programme Management: Under this component, following training opportunities are provided to the households that benefit from Livelihood Assets and Interest-Free Loans.
- Community trainings on Climate Change resilience/mitigation.
- Sessions with Households around nutrition.
- Training of Village Organizations around gender.
- Youth engagement activities.
- Campaigns on Health & Nutrition/Gender/Environment/Peace & Justice.
- Training of Community Resource Persons.
Below is the progress update under National Poverty Graduation Programme (NPGP) as of December, 2024.
- Assets Transfer: As of December 2024, a total of 151,823 households have received assets. These assets include livestock, agricultural, and technological resources, such as dairy animals, fattening animals, hand tractors, digital skills training, customized small vehicles for carriage and transportation in rural areas, milk collector motorbikes, and enterprises.
- Livelihood Trainings: As of December 2024, a total of 207,410 beneficiaries have been provided training on enterprise development, asset management, and functional literacy to help them effectively utilize the given assets and interest-free loans for business purposes.
- Interest Free Loan: As of December 2024, a total of 185,668 loans have been received by IFL beneficiaries.