REPORTING EXTREME POVERTY ELIMINATION MODEL FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA – A CASE STUDY OF TWO YEARS JOURNEY FROM MAURITANIA

This paper studies the mechanisms of (eliminating poverty) within two years in a difficult region of Sub-Saharan Africa in a village called Dar-Elbayda neighbourhood, Nouakchott, Mauritania. The paper comes in a unique time with the world inequality ratio and extreme poverty elimination becoming more stagnant due to the spillovers of COVID-19 pandemic and the unique situation of Sub-Saharan Africa. The case study reports the two years journey that was led by the international inspiration economy project in collaboration with local partners and showed the cycle of cooperatives (coops) model development which helped to develop a better quality of life in the targeted neighbourhood. The model led to bringing tens of families and hundreds of their dependents away from extreme poverty. The author shares his experience of the role of the consistent periodic evaluation and how it helps to measure the qualitative outcome in such vulnerable neighbourhoods in such projects while also better classifying and stratifying the beneficiaries. The paper concludes with a framework that could enhance the capacity to deal with poverty and extreme poverty, being a complex problems, in such a difficult time and in less developing regions. The author shares the experience of developing a poverty prevention model that led to the proposed formula for poverty elimination used in the case study