The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) was developed to build in good practice to addressing poverty. New features in it are the emphasis on building on strengths, as well as the importance of links between community level (micro), level of service provision (meso) and the policy level (macro).

The SLA is embedded in how we work, with some practice areas improving livelihoods directly eg Agriculture, Natural Resources and Food Security and Local Economic Development (LED) and others helping to set up the conditions for community-driven development to be realised e.g Development Planning