Livelihoods Connect
Livelihoods Connect aims to provide researchers, policy-makers and development practitioners with up-to-date, diverse and credible information on the application of livelihoods approaches to development, research, policy and practice.
These information resources cover a range of frameworks, principles and methodologies covered by the term ‘livelihoods approaches’ – principally multi-disciplinary, multi-level, people-centred, asset-based approaches to development. 
What are livelihoods approaches?
This section provides an introduction to livelihoods approaches, including: a short history of their evolution; sections unpacking elements and principles; introductory training and learning materials, including DFID SLA guidance sheets and a distance learning guide.
Application of livelihoods approaches
The themes section highlights how livelihoods approaches have been applied to a range of development issues from Agriculture to Water & Sanitation. Each theme includes an introduction, links to recommended reading and a regularly updated list of the latest online resources for that theme.
Latest Additions
- Balancing rural livelihoods, urban consumption and conservation key to controlling bushmeat hunting
- ( Noelle Francesca Kumpel / Imperial College, University of London , 2006)
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Bushmeat hunting is thought to be becoming increasingly unsustainable in west and central Africa, but true assessment of sustainability and consequently appropriate management, is constrained by po...
- FAO reporting on global hunger in 2009
- ( Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2009)
- This is the tenth progress report on world hunger since the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS). It highlights that the food crisis has twinned with the economic crisis increasing the number of hungry people...
- Best practice for women's empowerment
- ( F. Flintan / International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union) , 2008)
- It is often suggested that women in pastoral societies are marginalised and oppressed either through embedded patriarchal values or through outside influences such as development actors, whose monetar...
- Survival in an unplanned urban fishing wetland in Tanzania
- ( M. Victor;A. Makalle;N. Ngware / Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania , 2008)
- This report is a case study of Bonde la Mpunga, a wetland in Dar es Salaam which was formerly used for rice growing. It is an area abundant in natural resources with fishing being the main economic ac...
Improving responses to HIV and AIDS in the workplace
- ( Lotte Ghielen / STOP AIDS NOW! , 2009)
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For a number of years, STOP AIDS NOW! and its partners have been investing in stimulating workplace responses among civil society organisations (CSOs) to HIV and AIDS. This report, published by STO...
