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Welcome
to Livelihoods Connect, the learning platform for creating
sustainable livelihoods to eliminate poverty.
To learn more about the what, how and who
of Livelihoods Connect read on below. To
get going quickly read Getting Started below and then
click back to the homepage to continue.
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What
is Livelihoods Connect? |
Livelihoods
Connect is a learning platform for creating sustainable livelihoods
to eliminate poverty. It provides a suite of information sharing,
learning and management tools for researchers, policy makers, consultants
and practitioners working in a broad range of institutions around
the world.
The goal of Livelihoods Connect is to enable the practical implementation
of the sustainable livelihoods approach as a tool for achieving
poverty reduction. Livelihoods Connect helps practitioners to organise
and share their experience of implementing sustainable livelihoods
approaches so everyone can learn. It also helps to support and enable
networks, particularly between practitioners, policy makers and
researchers, around SL themes.
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do this Livelihoods Connect: |
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- hosts
a moderated post-it board where practitioners can share
their insights, experiences and views on using the sustainable
livelihoods approach
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- provides
brief, jargon free and action orientated summaries of the
latest experience and best thinking on sustainable livelihoods
gathered from practitioners and researchers, plus the full
texts online
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- offers
distance learning materials on the sustainable livelihoods
approach
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- underpins
traditional training with online resources and practical
tools
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- delivers
email updates to keep you briefed on relevant developments
in SL
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- provides
online access to the Sustainable Livelihoods Guidance Sheets
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- offers
a personal enquiry desk to point practitioners in the direction
of people and information if it can't immediately be tracked-down
on the website
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- facilitates
discussion between researchers and practitioners on work
in progress being undertaken by the Sustainable Livelihoods
Resource Group
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So,
Livelihoods Connect is really about you and the people and information
you'd prefer to be in touch with.
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How
does it work? |
Livelihoods Connect uses the internet (email and web) to enable information
sharing, learning and management. It's not about the Internet as an
end in itself, so Livelihoods Connect is designed to be accessible
using a range of older hardware and software combinations and across
poorer quality telephone lines. It also aims to make key resources
accessible via email only, as this is often a more reliable online
service.
Livelihoods Connect singles out information that makes a significant
and distinctive contribution to learning on sustainable livelihoods.
The time spent by Livelihoods Connect selecting, synthesising and
organising information gives you more time for getting on with your
work.
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Who
provides this service? |
Livelihoods Connect is brought to you from the
Institute for Development Studies (IDS) at the
University of Sussex. IDS is a leading centre for research, information
and teaching on development and is an independent not-for-profit
company. Livelihoods Connect is one of a family of knowledge
services from IDS. To visit IDS's website click on the logo
below.
You
can also see who provides this service
and how you can contribute to Livelihoods Connect. This page includes
staff profiles, and our editorial policy.
Production
Credits:
Distance learning materials by INDECO
Web design by Worth Media
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