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approach of the Sustainable Livelihoods Unit of the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) aims to promote a holistic vision of development
that includes income generation, natural resource management, people's
empowerment, use of appropriate technology, financial services and good
governance. It attempts to redefine development in terms of exploring the
abilities and potential that poor people already have.
The Unit helps to operationalise the
sustainable livelihoods approach within country programmes at two
levels:
- policy formulation and programme planning
processes
- design and implementation of discrete interventions
within projects aimed at strengthening one or more household livelihood
activities
Active country
programmes include Ecuador, Egypt, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland
and Yemen.
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