January
Email Update
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Contents
Hot
Topics
Food Security and Social Protection
Agriculture
Migration
Non
English Language Materials
Organisational
Links
Lessons
Events
and Training
Vacancies
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Issue
No 87, January 2007
Keeping you informed of developments in sustainable livelihoods,
with news, views, reports and experiences from Livelihoods Connect
and our subscribers.
This month we see the launch of our new
look – a HTML bulletin. This has been created
in response to some of your feedback which you gave us in our
latest survey. We aim to incorporate more of your feedback into
this service soon. In the meantime if you have any comments or
suggestions, to do with this bulletin or another matter then please
get in touch. We would also welcome your suggestions on themes
to explore for future Email Updates. This month the content focuses
on a Social Protection theme
and we plan for our March Email Update to look at
Markets and Livelihoods.
Send any project documents, lessons, events or announcements you
have to share to us at:
livelihoods-connect@ids.ac.uk
Key
Documents
Evaluation
Study on Appropriate Models of Livelihood Strategies for Social
Protection in Zambia: Final Report
Consultants to the Ministry of Community Development and Social
Services, Republic of Zambia (2007)
This
report explores 20 successful livelihoods promotion schemes in
Zambia, and assesses their potential to contribute to a wider
social protection strategy. The study notes that traditional social
protection mechanisms are under increasing stress and the formal
schemes still have limited scope.
The
Social Protection Policy in Malawi: Processes, Politics and Challenges
Blessings
Chisinga (2007)
This
literature review forms the basis for the ongoing research. It
uses a livelihoods framework to explore how processes in the management
of natural resources, and in access to education, health, infrastructure
and social capital affect key aspects of education, health and
work of children.
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Security and Social Protection |
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Food
Security and Social Protection
This paper was written to inform DFID’s position paper on
social protection. It emphasises that the issues and debates around
food security such as risk, vulnerability and hazards are also
relevant in developing social protection policies, strategies
and programmes and draws comparisons between the two.
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Living
in the Background: Home-Based Women Workers and Poverty Persistence
The author of this paper argues that an expanded conception of
social protection is needed if poverty prevention initiatives
are to be effective. It advises that, given the diversity of conditions
and needs of different groups, an approach to social protection
needs to be multilayered.
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Cash-Transfer
Programming in Emergencies: Oxfam
This
guide presents the rationale behind Oxfam’s cash-transfer
programmes. It explains how to assess whether cash is the most
appropriate response to any particular emergency. Different types
of cash intervention are compared - cash grants, vouchers, and
cash-for-work with checklists to explain how to implement each
of them.
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Global
Environmental Change and Food Systems - Organisation
Global
Environmental Change and Food Systems (GECAFS) was launched in 2001
as a 10-year, comprehensive programme of research focused on understanding
the links between food security and global environmental change.
Their goal is to determine strategies to cope with the impacts of
global environmental change on food systems and to assess adaptive
responses for improving food security.
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United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
This Conference, held in December 2007, brought together representatives
of over 180 countries and set the stage for a comprehensive agreement
to tackle Climate Change. You can now access, webcasts of meetings,
workshop documentation and national reports from the event.
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Farmer's
First Revisited
This
website presents information from the 2007 workshop which asked:
How should the challenges and priorities of farmer participation
in agricultural research and extension be seen in the 21st century?
Videos, podcasts, blogs and academic papers are available.
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Evidence
from the Field: Understanding Changing Levels of Opium Poppy Cultivation
in Afghanistan
Opium
poppy has provided the critical mechanism by which many Afghan households
have been able to access security and welfare. This briefing paper
shows that to understand changing levels of opium poppy cultivation
requires recognition of the multifunctional role of poppy cultivation
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Migration
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Behind
the Mask of Remittances
This article explores the practice of remittance use and suggests
that there are grounds for questioning the overall value of remittances
as a vehicle for development or social progress since they are primarily
used to supplement an inadequate income.
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Latest
Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty
Newsletter
This newsletter
brings highlights of the last six months of research, training and
capacity building activities from across members of the Migration
Research Centre. It highlights recent events such as a child migration
workshop held in London at the end of last year and provides a list
of most recent presentations and publications around migration,
poverty and vulnerability.
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| Carnegie
UK Trust Rural Community Development Programme
This
Programme examines and promotes ways in which rural communities
across the UK and Ireland can be empowered to shape and influence
change and work to ensure that rural priorities are fully recognised
by decision makers. Reports, case studies and a small documentary
are available here.
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The
Andhra Pradesh Rural Livelihoods Project - Updated
The
final report from this project, which ended in December 2007, is
now available. It provides a brief project overview and eleven lessons
from the design, implementation and closing of the project and discusses
the project’s life passed this period of DFID funding.
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The
Challenge of Developing a National Social Protection System: The
Ugandan Experience
At
this Overseas Development Institute and Grow Up Free From Poverty
coalition event the Honourable minister Bbumba will explain the
choices and challenges facing Uganda as it develops an affordable
Social Protection system suited to the needs of the Ugandan population.
Location: London, UK
Date: 30 January 2008
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Analysing
the Relationships Between Social Protection & Economic Growth
Grant Competition: USAID
Does money spent on social protection help poor households both
participate in and benefit from growth, whilst also protecting them
from hardship during times of economic or political crisis? Applications
are invited from parties interested in researching this relationship
between social protection and economic growth.
Deadline for Applications: 12 February 2008
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Senior
Associate: Mainstreaming Ecosystem Services Initiative (MESI)
The
People and Ecosystems program at the World Resources Institute (WRI)
is seeking a Senior Associate. The successful candidate will have
a broad understanding of development planning processes and potential
entry points for integrating information on ecosystem service impacts
and dependencies.
Location:
Washington DC, USA
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Research
Officer and Post Doctoral Fellow Microcon: A Micro Level Analysis
of Violent Conflict
These
two posts are to work on a research project entitled ‘Ethnic
Violence and Economic Processes’. The project will study the
interactions of different shocks suffered by households in developing
countries such as Rwanda and The Congo, and investigate the strategic
use of political violence.
Location:
University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
Deadline: Mid January |
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