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Can
sustainable livelihood approaches add value to project design?
Mike Nurse (Fortech, Australia) and Gamini Hitinayake (University
of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka) have written a paper for the recent
Commonwealth Forestry Conference discussing how livelihoods
approaches were used in the design of a new participatory
forest management project in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka.
The paper analyses the livelihood strategies of two communities
in the Dry Zone and finds the potential of a sustainable livelihoods
approach to forestry development promising, due to opportunities
offered by emerging village level institutional arrangements
and by new technical innovations.
The use of the approach in project design achieved the following:
- widened
the scope of the design;
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aided recognition that the project should be of long duration,
involving several phases of support to achieve full institutional
change in the service delivery agencies;
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encouraged greater use of process approaches in implementation
(the development of systems, skills and shared vision),
rather than targeted outputs; and
- aided
a greater focus on linking macro and micro issues
Views
and experiences that would help to carry forward this engagement
between livelihoods approaches, project design and implementation
would be welcome.
Please send comments to the Post-it Board or DFID Sustainable
Livelihoods Support Office at: livelihoods@dfid.gov.uk
Read the paper: Word
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