September
Email Update
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| Food
Security and Social Protection |
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Vulnerability
to Hunger: Improving Food Crisis Responses in Fragile States
The paper starts off examining the challenges of vulnerability from
hunger in an African context. It makes the case for an improved
food security classification and response system. The concluding
part then applies this framework in a systematic way, using common
standards and reference criteria. |
Assessing
the Security Implications of Climate Change for West Africa
The paper discusses the link between climate change and security
in six African countries. This includes going beyond rhetoric and
anecdotal evidence and examining a possible empirical link. It identifies
water availability, food security and management of migration as
the key triggers of conflict. |
In
the Face of Disaster: Children and Climate Change
The author looks at the impact of climate change on children as
a result of sudden shocks and seasonal natural disasters. The focus
is on infant mortality, malnutrition and education. It recommends
an early response approach to disaster risk assessment that is child
focused and participatory. |
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| Community
Led Total Sanitation |
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| Second
Open letter from Kamal Kar and Robert Chambers
This second letter on going to scale provides examples of alarming
developments in CLTS that go against desired practices. While
great things are happening in the spread and scaling up of CLTS,
cases have emerged where it is taught in a non-participatory classroom
manner by poorly trained staff. |
SACOSAN
III: The Third South Asian Conference on Sanitation
The
conference theme is ‘Sanitation for Dignity and Health,’
and the focus includes: people centred sanitation, gender issues
and emergency situations. Location: New Delhi, India.
Date: 16 – 21 November 2008. |
We
Need to Talk About Toilets
In August, the New Internationalist published a special issue
on Toilets featuring a profile of Kamal Kar as one of the Toilet
Champions. Here Maggie Black discusses what is needed to launch
a new sanitary revolution in this, 2008, the International Year
of Sanitation. |
| Name
and Shame Policy Gets Results
In a Guardian special on the Millennium Development Goals, Maggie
Black argues that technology is only part of the solution in improving
toilet facilities. Cultural inhibitions concerning this intimate
and basic human act ensure that silence reigns supreme and needs
to be addressed. |
Sanitation:
Creating a Stink About the World's Wastewater
Britain's sanitary revolution took place 150 years ago through
unprecedented investment. This paper criticises the low priority
assigned to such programmes in the developing world today, and
argues that greater ambition is needed to meet the Millennium
Development Goals in sanitation. |
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| Agriculture |
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Redistributive
Land Reform and Poverty Reduction in Zimbabwe
This paper discusses the impact of land reform on poverty reduction
in conflict ridden Zimbabwe. Marongwe reviews programmes of land
distribution by emphasising the local, and then national, dimensions
of poverty. This is taken to include macroeconomic shocks, drought
and fertilizer issues. |
New
Agricultural Frontiers in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone? Exploring
Institutional Challenges for Wetland Management in the Eastern Province
Drawing on recent
fieldwork carried out in two rural communities in the Eastern Province,
this paper considers how institutional arrangements function in
Sierra Leone’s swamp wetlands, and explores how stresses associated
with a post-conflict environment are shaping land-use decisions.
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Policies
and Strategies to Address the Vulnerability of Pastoralists in Sub-Saharan
Africa
Using the livelihoods approach, the paper sets the welfare of pastoralists
in the dynamic context of the risks, including sudden, seasonal
and long-term trends. It argues that these risks affect assets and
livelihood strategies, and determine levels of vulnerability of
pastoralists in Africa. |
| Events
and Training |
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Disaster
Management Response and Recovery 08: Building Resilience at Every
Level
Disaster Management Response Recovery is Asia’s largest gathering
of disaster preparedness and emergency response professionals. The
conference focuses on building resilience at every level utilising
community-based disaster preparedness. Location:
Singapore City, Singapore. Date: 21 – 22 October 2008. |
Sustainable
Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction Strategies
The aim of the course is to provide participants with an understanding
of the key concepts of the Sustainable Livelihoods approach. It
will focus on: its history; key principles; components of different
livelihoods frameworks; and discuss effective livelihoods analysis.
Location: Dublin, Ireland. Date:
28 – 31 October 2008. |
Understanding
and Applying the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach
The course is targeted at practitioners, consultants and advisers
from development agencies, and government departments, wanting
to understand the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach and how to
apply it in their work.
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa.
Date: 03 – 04 November 2008.
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Call
for Papers: Diverse Farming
LEISA Magazine
LEISA
are seeking articles about initiatives that explicitly recognise
the value of diverse landscapes, diverse ways of life, diverse crops
and agricultural systems, and stand up against policies and developments
that undermine an independent family farmers’ way of life.
Deadline: 01 December 2008.
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Research
Fellow: Livelihoods and Land Project
The role will empirically investigate ways in which different land
allocation systems, especially gendered systems, create and exacerbate
conflict, and how this ties in to productivity, social exclusion
and poverty in Eastern Europe.
Location: Brighton, UK. Deadline:
03 October 2008. |
Livelihoods
and Disaster Risk Reduction Coordinator
The Livelihoods Coordinator will take the lead in developing new
programme strategies to follow the Internal Displaced People return,
recovery, and reintegration phases. Location:
Dili, East Timor. Deadline: 08 October 2008. |
Livelihoods
Coordinator
The Livelihoods Coordinator is responsible for ensuring proper implementation
of all Livelihoods and food security activities for those affected
by humanitarian crisis in 10 designated zones in the Zinder region.
Location: Zinder, Niger. Deadline
31 October 2008 |
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| About
Livelihoods Connect |
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The
Livelihoods Network is a global list of practitioners, researchers
and policy makers interested specifically in sustainable livelihoods.
It invites members to share thoughts and experiences and develop
their ideas around Livelihoods Approaches by networking through
our email discussion list and participating at an annual face to
face workshop. |
The
purpose of Livelihoods Connect is to facilitate the practical
implementation of sustainable livelihoods approaches. Visit Livelihoods
Connect on the web at: http://www.livelihoods.org/index.html
Comments
on Livelihoods Connect are welcomed by Jagdeep Shokar at:
Email:
livelihoods-connect@ids.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0)1273 878 351
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