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Lessons and experiences
of the sustainable livelihoods approach with a specific regional focus. So far,
lessons are featured from: Asia
| Africa | Central Asia & Eastern Europe
| Latin America |
North America & Western Europe |
Global
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Asia
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Non
Timber Forest Products as Livelihood Option for Rural
Population
(Rajasthan, India) Research,
Forestry, Conservation NEW |
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Critical
Area Restoration Program, Tarai Arc Landscape
WWF Nepal,
Project Lessons |
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Western
India Rainfed Farming Project
Gujarat,
Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh
Project
Lessons
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Integrated
Rural Rehabilitation to Improve Livelihoods and Curb
Poppy Production in Badakhshan (IRRILP)
(Afghanistan)
Project Lessons
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Bangladesh
Page For all lessons pages and other lessons
documents relating to Bangladesh UPDATED |
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Research
in Alternative Livelihoods Fund (RALF)
(Afghanistan) Research
Lessons. |
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Urban
Livelihoods in Afghanistan
(Urban / Afghanistan) Research Lessons. Keywords:
access; services; social networks; policy process. |
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Making
Markets Work Better for the Poor
(Markets / Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia)
Research Lessons. Keywords: value chains; labour markets;
migrant workers; supermarkets |
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Increasing
the resilience of poor communities to cope with the impact
of climate change
(Climate Change / Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan,
Sri Lanka) Project Lessons |
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Special
Evaluation Study on Small-Scale Freshwater Rural Aquaculture
Development for Poverty Reduction
(Fisheries / Bangladesh, Philippines and Thailand)
Evaluation Study with case studies. |
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Management
of Irrigation Impacts on Fisheries
(Fisheries / Laos and Sri Lanka) Research
lessons. Keywords: guidelines, methods, irrigation,
fisheries.
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Rural
Urban Partnership Programme (RUPP)
(Rural&Urban / Nepal) Project Lessons.
Keywords: social mobilization; enterprise development,
rural-urban linkages; service delivery. |
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The
Tonle Sap Initiative
(Water / Cambodia) Project Lessons. Keywords:
environment; policy; asset building; partnership |
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Mongolia
- Sustainable Livelihoods Project (Pastoralism
/ Mongolia) Project lessons. Keywords: pastoralism;
micro-finance; methods |
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Soil
Fertility Management in Semi-arid India: its role in agricultural
systems and the livelihoods of poor people
(Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, India) Research
project. Keywords:soil fertility management; livelihood
strategies |
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Enhancing
the Livelihoods of Agro-pastoralists in NW Yunnan
(Agriculture
/ China) Project lessons. Keywords: livestock, capacity
building, extension, participation |
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Sustainable
Livelihoods, Environmental Security and Conflict Mitigation
in South Asia (Natural
Resources / Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan)
Research lessons. Keywords: rights; environment; security;
institutions; markets. |
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Integrated
Food Security Programme Trincomalee
(Community Development / Sri Lanka) Project
lessons. Keywords: conflict; food security; coping strategies. |
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Livelihood
Substitution: Involving the poor in urban infrastructure
and services development
(Urban /
Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Ethiopia) Research
lessons. Key words: informal sector; water; waste; transport.
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Aga
Khan Rural Support Programme (Community
Development / Pakistan) Project lessons. Key words:
gender; poverty; micro-finance; institutions |
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Nomadic
Pastoralism in Iran
(Agriculture
/ Iran) Research Findings. Key words: sustainable
development; capacity building; agricultural management.
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Rural
Access Programme (RAP)
(Transport / Nepal) Project lessons. Keywords:
rural acess; infrastructure; institutional capacity; policy
reform; monitoring and evaluation. |
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Coral
Reefs and Livelihoods Initiative (CORALI) (Research
and Policy
Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Maldives, Pakistan, Sri
Lanka)
Research
project lessons. Keywords: policy processes; participation;
migration; cyclone; influencing; post-disaster; tsunami
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Andhra
Pradesh Rural Livelihoods Project (APRLP) (Community
Development / India) Project lessons. Keywords:
watershed; participation; self help UPDATED |
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Livelihoods
and Poverty Reduction: Lessons From Eastern India.
(India) International
Conference. Evolution of SL Strategy for Poor (HTML)
Conference Papers
(HTML)
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Stories
of Change: Impacts of Watershed Development on Livelihoods.
(Community Development / India) Report.
Impact analysis of the Karnataka Watershed Development
Project (KAWAD) using SL approach |
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Lessons Learnt
and Implications from the Experience of Using SLA
(Agriculture / China) Report. Adapting
and applying SL concepts and terms with farmers in China.
PDF - Word (with pictures)
- Word (no pictures) |
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Livelihoods
and Forestry
(Forestry/ Nepal) Project Lessons. Keywords:
forest user groups; community participation |
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Nepal-UK
Community Forestry Project (NUKCFP) (Forestry
/ Nepal) Project lessons. Key words: forest
user groups; community participation |
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Asia
Regional Livelihoods Workshop (Cross-sectoral
/ regional) Papers and reports from the DFID
multi-stakeholder workshop held in May 2001
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Decentralised
Livestock Services Programme (DELIVERI)
(Agriculture / Indonesia). Project lessons.
Keywords: decentralisation; participatory approaches;
service delivery; policy influencing |
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Africa
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The
Path to Self-Resiliency
(Food
Security/ Pastoralism / Ethiopia)
Key
words:
Research, food security, safety nets. |
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Promoting
Sustainable Livelihoods in Northern Senegal
(Agriculture
/ Senegal) Project lessons (In French). Key words:
Agricultural Finance, Income Generation, Participation.
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Sustainability
Indicators for Natural Resource Management & Policy
(Agriculture
/ Uganda, South Africa) Research lessons. Key
words: policy, M&E, sustainability, indicators. |
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LinKs
Project
(Agriculture / Mozambique, Tanzania, Swaziland)
Research Lessons. Keywords: gender, biodiversity; food
security. |
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Climate
variability and rural livelihoods in Lesotho
(Climate / Lesotho) Research Lessons.
Keywords: forecasting, networks, impact assessment.
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Plan
for the Modernisation of Agriculture, Uganda
(Agriculture / Uganda) Project lessons.
Keywords: planning framework, markets, food security,
employment |
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Environmental
Strategies for Increasing Human Resilience in Sudan: Lessons
for Climate Change Adaptation in North and East Africa
(Climate
Change / Sudan) Research Lessons. Keywords: resliance;
adaptation; local knowledge; monitoring and evaluation.
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'How
Participation Evolves' An exploration of participation
in community-based water management in Tanzania
(Water / Tanzania) Research Lessons.
Keywords: participation; policy; services |
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Luanda
Urban Poverty Programme
(Urban / Angola) Project Lessons. Keywords: microfinance;
service delivery; policy influencing; local governance. |
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Diverse
Income Sources and Seasonal Finance for Smallholder Agriculture
(South Africa
/ Micro Finance) Project
Lessons. Keywords: Agriculture; Finance |
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Making
the link between micro and meso: learning from experience
on community-based planning
(Community Based Planning / South Africa, Uganda, Ghana,
Zimbabwe) Project Lessons. Keywords: institutions;
resource allocation; participation |
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Programme
of Support for Poverty Elimination and Community Transformation
(PROSPECT)
(Urban / Zambia) Project lessons. Keywords:
infrastructure; training; income generation |
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Farm
Power and Sustainable Livelihoods
(Agriculture / Ghana,
Nigeria, Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia)
Research. Keywords: smallholders, draught animals,
tillage. |
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Zimbabwe:
Micro-catchment Management and Common Property Resources
(Water
/ Zimbabwe) Synthesis study, research lesson. Key
words: natural resources, diversification, livelihood
strategies,vulnerability |
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HIV/AIDS
and Land
(Natural resources / Lesotho, Kenya, South Africa,
Malawi, Uganda) Research lessons. Key words:
land use; land policy; vulnerability |
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Wildlife
Integration for Livelihood Diversification (WILD)
(Natural Resources / Namibia) Project
Lessons. Keywords: CBNRM; policy; trousim; craft; research. |
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Integrated
Lake Management Project
(Water / Uganda) Project Lessons. Keywords:
policy; co-management; planning; fisheries; institutional
strengthening. |
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Forest
Sector Policy and Strategy Project / Forest Sector Umbrella
Programme
(Forestry / Uganda) Project Lessons.
Keywords: policy reform; institutional change. |
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Integrated
Support to Sustainable Development and Food Security Programme
(IP) (Agriculture
/ Health / Namibia,
Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe).
Research
Findings. Key words: HIV/AIDS; agricultural production |
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Community
Adaptation and Sustainable Livelihoods (CASL)
(Drought
Mitigation / Rural Livelihoods) Project Lessons. Key
words: appreciative inquiry, arid and semi-arid lands |
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Sustainable
Fisheries Livelihoods Programme
(Fisheries / regional) Project lessons.
Keywords: M&E; poverty profiles; training; community
development; policy Updated |
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Tools
for Understanding Sustainable Livelihoods Involving Micro
and Small-Scale Enterprise
(Enterprise / Kenya & Ghana) Project
lessons. Keywords: roofing; sub-sector analysis; carpentry,
construction, markets |
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Goodbye
to Projects
(Livelihoods Approaches / Tanzania, Uganda, South
Africa) Project lessons. Key words: policy, institutions;
audit |
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Collaborative
Learning to Achieve Sustainable Livelihoods
(Community Development / Ethiopia)
Evaluation report of an integrated rural development programme
by Oxfam, Canada.
Word
(3.7 MB) / PDF
(1.8 MB)
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Institutional
support for sustainable rural livelihoods
(support to practitioners / South Africa; Zimbabwe;
Zambia) Project summary. Key words: Khanya; training;
government; action research |
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Soil
Fertility Management and Sustainable Rural Livelihoods:
New Approaches to the Policy Process.
(Agriculture / Regional). Key words:
soil fertility; policy; influencing; macro to micro; participatory
approaches |
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Global
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Partnerships to Improve Access and Quality of Public Transport (Urban/ Asia & Eastern Africa) Keywords: Mobility, Partnerships, transport. NEW |
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Sustainable Livelihoods, Mobility and Access Needs (Urban/Rural Linkage, Eastern Africa
) Keywords:mobility, access, transport. |
| Rural
Agroenterprise Development / Desarrollo Agro-empresarial Rural
(Markets / global) Keywords: value chains; post-harvest processing;
fair trade | | Business
and Sustainable Livelihoods Project
(Enterprise / Global) Research Lessons. Keywords: local enterprise;
business; private sector | | Liberalisation,
Gender, and Livelihoods: the Cashew Nut Case in Mozambique and India
(Markets / Mozambique, India) Research Lessons. Keywords: value
chains, trade, gender, processing. | | Synthesis
of peri-urban interface knowledge on Natural Resource Management and alternative
livelihoods, Peri Urban Interface Programme (Urban / Ghana,
India) Research Lessons. | | PHAST
- Participatory Hygiene and Sanitation Transformation (Sanitation
/ Global) Key words: methods; participatory;health. |
| Capacity
strengthening in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) for Adaptation to Climate
Change (CLACC)
(Nepal, Malawi, Zambia, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Uganda) Key words:
vulnerability; adaptation; civil society; policy change
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of Agricultural Research on Poverty
(Agriculture / Global) Research project lessons. Keywords: livelihoods
framework; impact assessment; research | | The
Rural Non-Farm Economy (RNFE) project
(Enterprise / Global) Research project lessons. Key words: non-farm
employments, institutions, policy, assets, gender. | | Climate
Change, Vulnerable Communities and Adaptation
(Natural resources / Global) Project lessons. Keywords: vulnerability;
disaster; climate; capacity building. | | Young
Lives: an international study of childhood poverty (Youth
/ Peru, Vietnam, Ethiopia, India) Research lessons. Key works: multi-dimensional;
panel data; children; policy linkage; nutrition | |
The
role of local institutions in reducing vulnerability to
recurrent natural disasters and in sustainable livelihoods
development (Institutions
/ Global) Research Lessons. Key words: vulnerability;
disaster risk management. |
| Livelihoods
and Chronic Conflict Working Paper Series (Conflict
/ Global) Research Lessons. Key words: conflict; humanitarianism; political
instability; internally displaced persons. | | Wild
Meat, Livelihoods Security and Conservation in the Tropics
(Natural Resources / Global). Research Lessons. Key words: bushmeat; livelihoods
security. | | Disseminating
Approaches to Sustainable Livelihoods (Infrastructure
/ Nepal & Kenya). Project lessons. Key words: energy; micro-hydro;
water | | FAO
Livelihoods Support Programme
(Support / Global) Research Lessons. Key words: approach;
vulnerability; natural assets; PIPs. |
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Integrated
Urban Housing Development
(Urban
/ Kenya; India) Research findings. Keywords: multi-sector
approach; housing; participation. |
| Secure
Water
(Water / India, Kenya, Malawi, Sri Lanka, Sudan) Water-livelihood
linkages; research background and case studies. |
| Post
Harvest Fisheries Programme (Fisheries / Cambodia and Ghana)
Research project lessons. Key words: sector analysis; policy analysis; training.
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| Sustainable
Livelihoods Research Programme
(Agriculture
/ Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Mali) Research project lessons. |
| Understanding
the interface between the environment and sustainable livelihoods in the integration
of informal settlements
(Urban / Indonesia, Latin America and South Africa)
Research project lessons. | | Reefs
and Livelihoods (Coastal
/ Global) Research project lessons. Key words: policy; livelihoods assessment
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