Livelihoods Connect lessons, experience and views on sustainable livelihoods

Analysis Theme

				Post-its:
				Community Voices and Milliennium Development Goals: An Innovative Breakthrough Occasional Research Notes from Development Tracks RTC. June 2008
				Supplementary Livelihood Options for Pacific Island Communities project Coordinated by Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific (FSPI)
				IDS In Focus (Research and Analysis from the Institute of Development Studies) May 2006
				A New Approach to Development - Integrative Improvement Based on Integrative Thinking and Integrative Governance (Graham Douglas: integrative-thinking.com) 24 January 2005
				Breaking Barriers: Building Access for Disabled People (id21 at the Institute of Development Studies) 10 June 2005
				Livelihoods Support Programme- Desk Study (FAO) 6 April 2004
				Forum on the Future of Aid (Alina Rocha Menocal - Overseas Development Institute) 14 September 2005
				Request for Information on Assessing the Vulnerability Context (Dr John Twigg) October 8, 2003
				Livelihoods Analysis (Marilee Kane: FAO) 28 August 2001
				Livelihood Questions for Community Group Discussions (Cate Turton: IDL Group) 11 December 2001
				Practical Experience with Sustainable Livelihoods Analysis in Moldova (Barry Pound: Natural Resources Institute) 1 February 2002
				Livelihoods Systems in Niger (Simon Batterbury: University of Arizona) 14 May 2002
				A Framework for Drought Proofing Planning (Srinivas Chokkakula: Environmental Planning Collaborative) 22 October 2002
				Seminar on Livelihoods and Rural Poverty (Andrew Dorward: Senior Lecturer, Imperial College at Wye) 30 October 2001
				Livelihoods Angle in Liverpool Health Audit (Hugh Gibbon: Natural Resources Institute) 5 February 2001
				Practical Strategies for Poverty Targeted Research:Workshop - Hanoi,Vietnam 7-11 November, 2000 (Karim Hussein, ODI) 29 July 2001
				Livelihoods Frameworks in the First World (Lucy Stephen: University of Sussex) 9 March 2001
				Using a Livelihoods Approach in Poverty-Focussed Aquaculture Interventions (Cecile Brugere: University of Newcastle) 23 January 2003

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In Brief:

Risk management appraisals within a Sustainable Livelihoods framework is sought to gain an idea of how risk assessment has been incorporated into project design and monitoring.

No real tool has been identified to measure accurately or to produce an actual livelihoods analysis. Livelihood analysis is often considered to have been achieved if various standard PRA tools are combined and then added to household interviews.

Identifying the right questions is key to getting livelihoods discussion going with a community and to gaining insights into the real issues people are grappling with.

Barry Pound provides an example of the evaluation of an existing project in Moldova which employs an SL approach, with a view to expansion and consolidation of the project experience in this area.

Research in a Zarma community in SW Niger, West Africa has sought to find ways of applying the SL framework in a dryland community where the 'capital' framework has been problematic in measuring the different kinds of 'capitals'.

Srinivas Chokkakula desribes the similarities between the SL framework and that of the Kachchh Ecology Fund. It provides an experience of using the SL framework in practice and identifies lessons learnt.

Cecile Brugere announces a paper that discusses, through the presentation of a case study on Southern India, the advantages and disadvantages of using a livelihoods approach to determine target communities and resource-poor groups for potential poverty-focused aquaculture interventions.

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