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This paper attempts to look at graduation model as a successful intervention to move communities out of poverty. In Assam Udalguri district the graduation model was implemented during August 2014 to September 2016 by world vision India- child focused humanitarian organization working in over 6200 communities in India. Graduation Model refers to move the vulnerable household from extreme poverty to next level to have food security, livelihood assets, and linkages with development programs within a period of 24 months. This study focused on vulnerable poor in the communities mainly Single mothers, Widows, Landless labor, poor household having chronically ill, poor household with person with disability, and household with malnourished household. 300 participants selected through screening in this program, baseline survey data has been collected and at the end of the tenure we had end line survey with the same set of questionnaire to see the shift between two time points. 297 participants moved from extreme poverty to sustainable development consider once they attain 75% on 16 indicators mentioned below. This Ethnography study resulted in 99% success of program by comparing the baseline and end line data. The paper, therefore suggests that graduation model is a successful approach to assist vulnerable households to move out from extreme poverty Subramania Siva | Priskla Macwan"Graduation Approach '“ Economic Resilience for Extreme Poor '“ Ethnography Study From World Vision India's Intervention in Assam" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-1 | Issue-4 , June 2017, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd176.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/sociology/176/graduation-approach-'“-economic-resilience-for-extreme-poor-'“-ethnography-study-from-world-vision-india's-intervention-in-assam/subramania-siva

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