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.
- Sustainable livelihoods approaches: past, present and...future?
- How are Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches (SLAs) relevant to current and future development challenges? What has been learnt from the experience of using SLAs to date? This Sustainable Livelihoods Highlights Brief looks at a series of six seminars, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council from 2008-11, which brought together practitioners, policymakers and researchers to reflect on the development and adaptation of SLAs, and debate their value in addressing current development challenges.
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
- Learning for skills formation and employability: a strategic framework for informal sector in Bangladesh
- Unnayan Onneshan, 2012
- The formal work environment has undergone a process of rapid transformation in the context of globalisation and technological change, leaving the majority of the workforce in the informal sector. The ...
- Integrating safety, health and social equity into a green economy
- International Labour Organization , 2012
- There are two major challenges that define the 21st century: 1) averting climate change and the deterioration of natural resources; 2) ensuring sustainable development based on economic growth, social...
- Briefing paper presenting lessons learned from working with women smallholders on food security
- R. Tripathi;K. Deering;N. Saracini / 2012
- This briefing paper is the result of a collaboration between nine different agencies, sharing lessons learned from working with women smallholders in order to close the gender gap in agriculture. Desp...
- Achieving food security in the face of climate change
- Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
- The Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change has reviewed the scientific evidence to identify a pathway to achieving food security in the context of climate change. Food systems must s...
- ICT for development in education, health, finance and agriculture
- A. D. Carvalho;H. N. Partner;L. Klarsfeld;H. P. Manager;F. Lepicard / 2012
- The report reflects a cocreation process with social entrepreneurs, ICT for experts, experts of each of the development fields within the scope of education, health, financial services and agriculture...
