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Use
of Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches
Conflict is the key constraint to development in the North
and East of Sri Lanka. While war has become normality and
is experienced as reality be people, it leaves people with
hopelessness and frustration. How do people manage to survive
in such an environment? It is essential for various actors
and agencies active in rehabilitation and developmetn to gain
a thorough understanding of how people cope with the previailng
conditions of a protracted war.
The
Integrated Food Security Programme (IFSP) aims to support
and encourage people who are war affected and face seasonal
and structural food deficits. Emphasis is on the diversification
and intensification of local and regional food and income
sources, improvement of nutrition and health care and promotion
of nutrition and food security as programmatic priority of
partner institutions and, capacity building.
Sustainable livelihoods approaches were used in:
- Surveys (Baseline survey health and nutrition; poverty and
vulnerability profile and mapping, VAM; inventory of irrigation
schemes; safe yield of north-eastern aquifer; lessons learnt
– best practices; impact assessment);
- Confidence building, and participation (participatory needs
assessment, community mobilisation, participatory project
management, livelihood assessment and strategy development);
- Capacity development (training, learning by doing, organisation
analysis, IT for planning, M&E)
For
background details on IFSP see:
http://ifsp-srilanka.org/html/programme_profile.html
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