Use of Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches

Sustainable livelihoods concepts and approaches lie at the heart of this facility, whose aim is the development of demand-driven service provision and effective stakeholder participation in policy. Currently the facility supports: strengthening the poverty focus of the agriculture strategy and its implementation as the core policy framework guiding MOFA's activities; mainstreaming gender and livelihoods analysis throughout MOFA; development of the new agricultural extension policy, including the framework for multiple service provision partnerships; analysis of district level information needs under decentralisation; supporting a livelihoods approach to livestock service provision; supporting research from a livelihoods perspective.

The facility forms part of DFID's support to the development of a sector-wide approach in agriculture, and is complemented and informed by a further key rural livelihoods programme component working at district level on similar issues in policies, mechanisms, structures and processes.

The programme and this facility are in the early stages of implementation [design] but are expected to offer useful lessons on working within the 'policies institutions and processes box' and on macro-micro linkages.

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