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Introduction
This paper
explores how community development practitioners used a sustainable
livelihoods approach to support Awel Aman Tawe community wind
farm in developing a realistic project that can simultaneously
benefit the community and respond to the objectives of donors.
Two ways in which the project benefited are prominent: its recognition
of the importance of macro-level issues to success at ground
level, and its focus on building on people's strengths. Furthermore,
the paper highlights two aspects that are particularly pertinent
to the project but which are not clearly dealt with in the sustainable
livelihoods approach: the recognition of time as an asset -
without which the project would have failed to get off the ground,
and the absence in the SL framework of political capital (as
distinct from social capital), which is of increasing importance
as the project evolves. |
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