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SLA and community-driven development

Exploring the links between sustainable livelihoods and community-driven development, four articles summarise the findings presented at a sustainable livelihoods seminar in South Africa in March 2009.
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The myth of ‘community ownership’?
The core principles of Community-Driven Development and Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches assert that ‘communities’ should own and shape development interventions. Is the complexity of communities properly understood?

SLA in South African government policy processes
The post-1994 mandate of the South African Department of Social Development was based on 3 pillars: social security, social welfare and community development.

Transforming lives in Zimbabwe
Practical Action is strengthening the capacity of Community- Based Change Agents to transform people’s lives in Zimbabwe but faces enormous challenges.

Livelihoods and vulnerabilities in Malawi
Worldwide, efforts are being made to promote sustainable livelihoods through Community-Driven Development. While Sustainable Livelihood Approaches implies external actors supporting local communities in development activities, Community-Driven Development implies community ‘ownership’ of development efforts.

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Further Information
Helen Schneider
Livelihoods Connect
Institute of Development Studies
University of Sussex
Brighton, BN1 9RE, UK

Tel +44 1273 915805

Email livelihoods-connect@ids.ac.uk

Livelihoods Connect
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July 2009

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