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Putting a Livelihood Perspective into Practice: Systemic Approach to Rural Development
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We are pleased to announce the launch of "Putting a Livelihood Perspective into Practice", a guide that builds on the use of a sustainable livelihood approach and describes a way to put such an approach into practice. It guides livelihood analysis, appraisal and planning in rural areas with the aim of assisting in the design and re-orientation of development interventions. Such a Systemic Approach to Rural Development (SARD) offers the establishment of a holistic and differentiated understanding of poverty, livelihood patterns and relations between stakeholders in a rural setting. |
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SDC Experience and Practice on Empowerment
The Poverty File | |||
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The Poverty File consists of a series of briefing notes that inform readers about poverty and policies addressing poverty. The notes present a condensed and synthesized introduction to current state of the art and have been specifically tailored for SDC and its partners. The notes do not aim to address the full scope of what poverty means and how it can be understood, but rather to highlight several specific issues. |
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The following notes are now available:
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Using the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework to Understand and Tackle Poverty | |||
 Sustainable Livelihoods Frameworks (SLFs) provide a structure for poverty analysis and the design of people-centred development and poverty reduction policies, programmes and projects. Such frameworks are flexible and can be adapted to meet the specific needs of different organisations or different contexts. This briefing note focuses on the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (developed by DFID) and a version developed by NADEL following extensive collaborative research on rural livelihood systems (RLS). Read the briefing note >>> | |||
