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NRI
aims to integrate livelihood approaches across the range of
its poverty-focused research, consultancy and training activities.
Specific experience with SL includes:
Livelihoods and human and institutional development :
- Integrating
livelihoods thinking into project design and project cycle
management, e.g. the design of monitoring and evaluation
systems which adapt and incorporate the SL framework for
the DFID/FAO Sustainable Fisheries Livelihoods Programme
West Africa, including a livelihood assessment procedure
for artisanal fisherfolk;
- Studies
and scoping missions using the SL framework to assess the
policy and institutional environment and coping strategies
(Pakistan, Zambia, Kenya, Malawi);
- The
integration of SL approaches into teaching, short-course
development and in-house training (MSc Natural Resources,
Forest management, Social Development and Participatory
Natural Resource Management short courses.);
- SL
approaches to promote research and policy dialogue on food
security, nutrition and health.
Livelihoods
and natural resources research, policy, and management:
- Mainstreaming
SL within NR based research projects and programmes, particularly
those of the DFID Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy
e.g. the role of human and social capital in NR management
(Tanzania, Uganda); advice to Crop Protection Programme
management on the integration of livelihoods approaches;
- Specialist
advisory services for RLD on land policy and land tenure,
including support to country programmes to enhance access
to natural capital and promote enabling land policies and
institutions.
Livelihoods
and sustainable enterprise:
- Research
and policy engagement on rural non-farm employment, including
marketing and rural financial services and their influence
on assets and livelihood opportunities (Uganda, India, Romania,
Georgia and Armenia);
- Livelihood
impacts of ethical trade (Zimbabwe, Ghana, Peru);
- Globalisation
and effects on cash-crop based livelihoods.
Rural-urban
linkages and urban livelihoods:
- Analysis
of urban and peri urban livelihoods in Kumasi, Ghana and
in Southern Africa (Harare, Capetown and Pretoria);
- SL
as an analytical tool in exploring the livelihood impacts
of road construction.
Livelihoods
and the environment:
- SL
approach to link understanding of environmental security
and environmental management and biodiversity conservation
with sustainable NR based livelihoods.
Natural
resources and Ethical Trade :
NRET specialises in improving the social and environmental
benefits of business in developing and emerging economies.
We offer five types of service, available to business, NGOs,
fair-trade organisations, governments and trades unions.
- Building
better standards - helping standards and codes of practice
serve the needs of developing countries
- Integrated
supply chain management- working with companies to integrate
social and environmental performance into management systems
- Policy
information - for governments, NGOs, trade unions and companies
in the North and South
- Producer-market
linkages - advising developing country companies take advantage
of markets for responsible business products
- Learning
and leveraging- helping local communities take advantage
of corporate social responsibility
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