CLAIM Exit from Day One. This is not what most development organisations say. It is what makes PHB different.
What it is? PHB bridges grant funding and impact investment through two parallel pathways. The first: 0% bridge loans to ECD centres for infrastructure — new classrooms, WASH facilities, educator training. Not grants. Loans, with MoUs, repayment schedules, and quarterly impact reporting.
What it looks like in practice? In Nakivale, PHB has deployed UGX 65 million across ECD centres, VSLA groups, and enterprises. 80% have repaid on time and in full. More than 20% of that capital has already been recycled into new loans.
Fragile-context ECD centres can be designed for exit from day one. The measure of our commitment is not how long we stay, but how strong communities stand when we step back.
CLAIM 80% of our bridge loans are repaid on time and in full. In a refugee settlement. Through food insecurity and funding cuts. This is not charity. This is credit.
What it is? PHB bridges grant funding and impact investment through two parallel pathways. The first: 0% bridge loans to ECD centres for infrastructure — new classrooms, WASH facilities, educator training. Not grants. Loans, with MoUs, repayment schedules, and quarterly impact reporting.
What it looks like in practice? In Nakivale, PHB has deployed UGX 65 million across ECD centres, VSLA groups, and enterprises. 80% have repaid on time and in full. More than 20% of that capital has already been recycled into new loans.
80% on-time full repayment is not a programme metric. It is a credit metric — and it destroys the stereotype that communities in crisis cannot be held accountable.
CLAIM When a mother has stable income, she does not pull her child from school when food prices spike. Market linkage is not a programme. It is insurance.
What it is? PHB links caregivers and ECD centres to real markets — poultry, permaculture, and WASH value chains that generate income and sustain education investment. Caregiver income stability directly reduces the rate at which children are withdrawn from school during economic shocks.
What it looks like in practice? Value chains chosen for income-to-school-fee return. Collective IGAs that pool risk and reward. Poultry enterprises that grew from 3 birds to 33. A VSLA member who expanded from a vegetable stall to a full fresh-produce business and now pays school fees for three children.
Families with stable enterprise income absorb shocks that would otherwise pull children from school. The connection between caregiver economics and child education is documented, not assumed.
CLAIM Our community intelligence tools make problems visible before they become irreversible. Government-ready evidence, built from the settlement level up.
What it is? PHB’s graduation dashboards and community intelligence tools form an AI-powered Early Childhood Intelligence System — making the Two-Generation model continuously visible, measurable, and responsive. The system tracks graduation in real time and generates early warning signals.
What it looks like in practice? Dashboards that track graduation weekly. Early warning signals that reach families before crises become irreversible. Government decision-support tools integrated into OPM coordination workflows. A formal partnership with Uganda’s Office of the Prime Minister since 2023.
PHB holds the most complete longitudinal data set on refugee ECD households in Uganda — and uses it to close gaps before they become crises.
