Additional Context: This quote comes from a report produced by Inclusive Development Partners, or IDP, a research and technical assistance organization. Using a mixed-methods design under IRB approval from the University of Massachusetts Boston, the study triangulated a global survey of staff from 82 projects across 80 implementing organizations with key informant interviews and focus group discussions across eight countries where IDP had existing programs: Bangladesh, El Salvador, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, and Pakistan. Data collection took place between January and March 2026.

According to IDP, parents described feeling not just frustrated by the loss of practical support, but cut off from the future they had begun to imagine for their children. The individual quoted described to the researchers how participants in the program had found genuine purpose, encouragement, and support through the program, and had committed their own limited resources in good faith, trusting that help would follow. It did not.

Source: Inclusive Development Partners