March
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Contents
Hot
Topics
Agriculture
Community
Led Total Sanitation
Food
Security & Social Protection
Lessons
Tools
Organisational
Links
Events
and Training
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Vacancies
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Issue
No 89, March 2008
Keeping you informed of developments in sustainable livelihoods,
with news, views, reports and experiences from Livelihoods Connect
and our subscribers.
This month's Email Update has a focus on Market Systems
Small-scale producers face many challenges in engaging
with modern market systems, from limited access to resources for
production to disabling policy, regulatory and institutional environments.
The collection of resources in this Email Update explores these
challenges and offers insights and strategies for pro-poor market
development.
Livelihoods
Network Evaluation Report 2007
This report analyses the responses to an online survey to Network
members, supplemented with monitoring data and member feedback
from other sources to give an overview of the status of the Livelihoods
Network by the end of 2007.
If you have content which you would like us to highlight in next
month's update please send your news, views, reports and experiences
to:livelihoods-connect@ids.ac.uk
Key
Documents
Approaches
to Linking Producers to Markets: A Review of Experiences to Date
This FAO occasional paper reviews examples of linkages between
farmers and markets in contexts where traditional marketing channels
are increasingly being replaced by co-ordinated links between
farmers, processors, and retailers.
Understanding
Market-Based Livelihoods in a Globalising World: Combining Approaches
and Methods
This IIED paper argues that combining livelihoods and value chain
analyses can produce important insights for developing policies
to enhance people's livelihoods through market access. It describes
a selection of studies combining these approaches: on shrimp farming
in Bangladesh, peri-urban horticulture in Mali, cashew production
in Mozambique and India, and rattan and bamboo weaving in Vietnam.
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Reader:
Agribusiness and Value Chains
This Reader is useful for understanding all aspects of agribusiness
and value chains including principles and constraints of the agribusiness
value chain framework, strategies for promoting agribusiness and
guidelines for improving value chains. The section on internet
links and literature is a valuable resource for those seeking
a wider perspective.
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The
Urban Producers Resource Book: A Practical Guide for Working with
Low Income Urban and Peri-Urban Producers Organizations
This manual focuses on issues of concern to urban producers worldwide
and illustrates how it is more effective for producers to tackle
these as groups. It explains how urban producers can be assisted
in forming themselves into organisations.
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Assessing
Small-holder Participation in Value Chains: The Case of Vegetables
in Honduras and El Salvador
This study explores the issues arising from the changing structure
of commodity chains and the growth of supermarkets in the developing
world. It was carried out in a participatory fashion and suggests
strategies for chain development focused on collaborative actions
between chain actors.
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Production
and Markets: Case Studies
A collection of Practical Action's latest experiences in enabling
poor women and men to use technologies to build secure livelihoods,
through improved systems of production, processing and marketing
in Bangladesh, Peru, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Zimbabwe.
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Producer
Organisations: A Practical Guide to Developing Collective Rural
Enterprises
A publication from OXFAM that describes different types of producer
organisations, and draws out learning points and key factors affecting
their success, based on ten case studies from Albania, Colombia,
El Salvador, Georgia, India, Malawi, Mozambique, Palestine, and
Viet Nam
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Community
Led Total Sanitation
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Sanitation
and Hygiene Week
On the occasion of Sanitation and Hygiene Week and World Water Day,
IDS reports back from AfricaSan 2008, highlighting the potential
of CLTS to improve the health and wellbeing of the 300 million Africans
still lacking access to improved sanitation.
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Tapping
Local Innovation: Unclogging the Water and Sanitation Crisis
Global Water Challenge and Ashoka's Changemakers have launched a
global competition to find the most innovative community-based water
and sanitation solutions. Submit, review and comment on entries
until March 26, 2008.
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BBC
World Earth Report
From March 21-26 'Where is the loo?' a BBC documentary showing Ethiopian
efforts to provide toilets to two thirds of its 77m people who have
no access to sanitation.
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AfricaSan
- The 2nd African Conference on Sanitation and Hygiene
Held in Durban, South Africa the conference produced the eThekwini
Declaration and approved the AfricaSan Action Plan in which Ministers
pledged to commit at least 0.5 percent of GDP for sanitation. |
CLTS
on BBC World
'Top Down Bottom Up', a BBC documentary on CLTS by CARE Bangladesh
that was telecast on BBC World on March 14-19 in their Earth Report
section.
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CLTS
in Kenya
In May 2007, Plan Kenya began piloting Community Led Total Sanitation
in three Development Areas of Kenya. This country section of the
CLTS Hot Topic will track the pilot's progress.
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Security & Social Protection |
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Political
Economy of Bali Climate Conference: A Roadmap of Climate Commercialisation
A policy discussion paper on the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations in Bali, this paper argues
that the best yardstick with which to measure the success of 'Bali
Roadmap' would be the extent to which the post 2012 framework provides
for both environmental space and development policy choice for developing
and least developed countries.
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China:
Development Research Priorities. Report on consultations for DFID's
global research strategy 2008-2013
This report highlights main conclusions of the research consultations.
Also available are the summary reports and recommendations arising
from each consultation. Suggested priorities for the 3 research
sectors include: : Agriculture, Health and Climate Change.
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Meeting
the Needs of the Very Poor
This Eldis dossier looks at the linkages between health and social
protection and reviews different frameworks for analysing health
needs of the very poor. It also looks at social protection in transition
economies and the difficulties in operationalising joint health
and social protection agendas.
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Tonle
Sap Initiative - Updated
This initiative, a partnership of organisations and people working
to meet the poverty and environmental challenges of people in
the Tonle Sap Basin in Cambodia, has released an online summary
of key findings from a participatory poverty assessment. The full
monograph is available via the document delivery service of the
British Library for Development Studies.
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Cut Above: Building the Market for Fair Trade Timber
Published by the International Institute for Environment and Development
as part of its sustainable development opinion series this document
discusses the importance of building a market for fair trade timber
which unlike coffee and cotton, has yet to become a fair trade commodity.
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Vulnerable
Group Profiling - Index
This new methodology developed by FAO is used to analyse multiple
factors influencing the food insecurity of relatively homogenous
groups: their assets, external factors that affect their lives,
their own actions, the resulting intermediate outcomes and their
ultimate food security status.
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FAO
- Updated
FAO launches e-agriculture.org, an initiative to enhance sustainable
agricultural development and food security by improving the use
of information, communication, and associated technologies in the
sector. It enables members to exchange opinions, experiences, good
practices and resources.
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Social
Protection for the Poorest in Africa - Learning from Experience
A conference that will bring together a variety of development actors
involved in the development, design, and implementation of social
protection programmes, particularly those which aim to address extreme
and chronic poverty
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Date: 8-10th September 2008
Abstract Deadline: 12 April 2008 |
Introduction
to Participatory Appraisal (PA) 2
A course by the University of Northumbria that will enable participants
to use PA through the entire project cycle
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Date: 2-4 April 2008 |
Enterprise
Development through Value Chains and Business Service Markets
An online course by ILO with an optional face to face module that
will help participants ramp-up small enterprise development programme
using practical tools and strategies for developing value chains
and business service markets by learning from experiences of effective
small enterprise development from around the world.
Location: Online and Turin, Italy
Date: 7 April - 30 November 2008
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Beekeeping
in Developing Countries
Strengthening livelihoods by means of beekeeping is an introductory
course of relevance to NGO staff and individuals who have an interest
in beekeeping as a means to build sustainable livelihoods.
Location: Wyastone, UK
Date: 20 June 2008
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Ecosystem
Services & Human Well-being: Seminar
The second in a series of four seminars aimed at providing new theoretical
and applied insights on ecosystem services and human well-being,
and to challenge the assumptions about the linkages between ecosystem
services and human well-being.
Date: 8 April 2008
Location: Norwich, UK
Registration Deadline 27 March 2008
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Development
of Rural Livelihoods in Semi-Arid Africa: Issues, Challenges, Opportunities
A two day conference that brings together producers, policy makers,
researchers, development practitioners with a view to defining key
issues that engender rural livelihood processes in semi-arid Africa
and ensuring that responses are adequate.
Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Date: 29-30 April 2008
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Understanding
Market Mobility: Perceptions of Smallholder Farmers
in Bangladesh
This article describes the experience of participatory research
with smallholder farmers in central Bangladesh that looked at how
and why farmers use different markets to sell their products and
what could be done to maximize their profit. |
Collective
Action for Smallholder Market Access: Improving Market Access for
the Rural Poor
This paper is a synthesis of a forthcoming article which examines
the conceptual issues and empirical evidence on the role of collective
action institutions in improving market access for the rural poor.
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Leadership
for Sustainable Development Programme 2008
LEAD's Europe Programme is calling for applications from 'rising
stars' from all sectors who want to strengthen their leadership
skills, enhance their understanding of sustainable development and
join a global network of leaders.
Deadline: 20 April 2008
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Financial
Services Consultant
Oxfam GB is seeking a consultant to carry out an independent review
of Oxfam's global experience as a facilitator and developer of financial
services for the poor.
Location: Not Specified
Deadline: 21 March 2008
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Africa
Regional Program Coordinator
International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia
University is seeking a programme coordinator for its regional programme
in Africa. A range of collaborative work projects are planned/ underway
in the areas of climate, health, water, agriculture, food security,
disaster risk reduction.
Location: New York, USA
Deadline: Open Until Filled
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