Vulnerability and limited assets both constrain the options of poor people, especially smallholder farmers.
But the poor often also possess a range of potentially valuable natural, physical, financ...
Paper prepared for the 3rd International Development Informatics Association Conference. 28-30th October 2009 Johannesburg; South Africa.
Local rural communities frequently receive little assistan...
When the new South African Government came to power in 1994, it embarked upon an ambitious land reform programme.One of the key objectives was to provide poor people with an additional asset that t...
Teaching material compiled by Mr.S.Rengasamy to supplement the class room teaching for MSW students specializing in community development in the colleges affiliated to Madurai Kamarai University,Ta...
This is the magazine of Akshara Network for Development Support Services, Hyderabad, also known as 'the livelihoods people'. This is the September 2009 edition.
'livelihoods' can also be downloa...
This Action Against Hunger report is a compilation of case studies and lessons learned from cash-based interventions by ACF and other NGOs. Presented as a guide to implementing such interventions, ...
This brief summarises a research
report, The Economic Impact of
Telecommunications on Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction: A study of
rural communities in India (Gujarat), Mozambique and Tan...
The course “Microfinancing Livelihoods” aims at building a livelihood perspective in the field of
microfinance. This module focuses on ‘how to promote and support livelihoods through
microfinance...
Although community forestry is recognized as a successful programme in terms of
rehabilitating forest condition, its contributions to local community development are
not recognized adequately by ...
Although community forestry is recognized as a successful programme in terms of
rehabilitating forest condition, its contributions to local community development are
not recognized adequately by ...
Presentation on fundamental concepts and principles of household economic strengthening for orphans and vulnerable children delivered by Jason Wolfe of USAID's Microenterprise Development office at...
The Toolkit, of which the
Practitioners’ Guide to HEA
makes up one component, was developed in order to assist the RHVP in its objective of strengthening the capacity of government and national...
Community Watershed Management in Semi-Arid India: The State of Collective Action and its Effects on Natural Resources and Rural Livelihoods
Bekele Shiferaw, Tewodros Kebede, and V. Ratna Reddy
Contribuciones de proyectos de conservación de especies, incluyendo las tortugas marinas en Tortuguero (Costa Rica), a las metas de desarrollo del milenio (en inglés).
The people of Ethiopia today are managing the risks and vulnerabilities generated by a serious drought, profound vulnerability to disease epidemics (human, crop and livestock), and a combination of...