Critical review e Strengthening Sustainable Livelihoods involves working with rural communities and individuals to enhance the various productive activities in which they are engaged. + Land-based livelihoods are used to bind communities together and maximize the productivity of available natural resources in a sustainable manner, involving women in alternative IGAs contributes directly to the process of women’s empowerment.» Building People's Capabilities, particularly in terms of working with them to create systems through which their health and education status can be enhanced and to transform social relations, particularly gender relations. Work includes creating spaces where dialogue around critical issues can take place and through which all sections of society can take ownership of their own development process, be it social, cultural, economic or political. » Creation of strong and autonomous village institutions based on democratic principles.