http://www.khanya-aicdd.org daily 1 2008-11-03T21:55:28Z http://www.khanya-aicdd.org/publications/SLSA%2026%20OxfamGB_vulnerability.pdf In recent years there has been increasing recognition that longer-term recovery work after any disaster or emergency needs to begin as early as possible – alongside the actual relief phase. OXFAM GB has, like many other agencies, grappled with how to make this shift and has found the SLA a useful tool to facilitate their understanding of vulnerable communities and their thinking. This SLSA shares how the SLA has helped the organisation to develop a better conceptual understanding of chronic food and livelihoods insecurity. Our thanks to Maxime Houinato and Craig Castro for their willingness to share this ‘work in progress’. No publisher Rahel SLSA Newsletter Sustainable Livelihoods Approach 2009-03-10T12:13:32Z publicationFile http://www.khanya-aicdd.org/publications/SLSA_25_Reflect_SLA.pdf This article explores the conceptual links between literacy and the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) by exploring Reflect, an approach to adult education and development that connects literacy education with community action. Whilst the focus of Reflect tends to remain on literacy conceived within a wider framework of communication and power, it argues that it can also be a thread woven through the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) and a guiding tool to systematise thinking about the location of literacy in people’s daily lives. If the relevant entry points are found, it can help ensure that any intervention will be more effective in enabling participants to become protagonists in their own lives. No publisher Rahel Sustainable Livelihoods Approach SLSA Newsletter Action Research Action Learning 2008-11-08T14:17:03Z File http://www.khanya-aicdd.org/publications/slsa24_thecatastory.pdf The Cata Story describes how poorer people’s livelihoods have been improved in one of the poorest areas of South Africa through an integrated rural development process. What is significant is that this has been achieved using resources which were secured through the realisation of the rights of the Cata community to receive restitution for the loss of their land No publisher Alex SLSA Newsletter Learning and Sharing Sustainable Livelihoods Approach 2008-11-08T14:10:30Z publicationFile http://www.khanya-aicdd.org/publications/slsa%2023%2007%2005%2010.pdf This SLSA looks at the links between the sustainable livelihoods approach and the design and implementation of a long-term relief programme in Zimbabwe. As the developmental dimension of relief receives increasing attention, it is appropriate to reflect and learn from a complex, protracted relief situation with a priority focus on addressing poverty. No publisher Rahel SLSA Newsletter Learning and Sharing Sustainable Livelihoods Approach 2008-11-10T04:54:00Z publicationFile http://www.khanya-aicdd.org/publications/SLSA22.pdf The theme of this SLSA is human rights-based approaches (HRBA) to development. Issue 7 of the SLSA provided some conceptual background to rights-based approaches (RBA) and noted the links between the principles of RBA and sustainable livelihoods approaches. The main focus of this edition is going beyond principles to highlight practical application of HRBA for development drawing on case studies from South Africa and Sri Lanka. No publisher Rahel SLSA Newsletter Learning and Sharing Action Learning 2008-11-08T14:15:45Z publicationFile http://www.khanya-aicdd.org/publications/SLSA21.pdf This issue of SLSA offers the building blocks of an alternative M&E paradigm that aligns more closely with practice and the realities of how people create knowledge, make sense of their situations and adapt to change. Such a paradigm focuses on individual, group and organisational learning, a perspective which has been absent in conventional approaches to M&E. No publisher Rahel SLSA Newsletter Learning and Sharing Action Learning 2008-11-08T14:24:41Z publicationFile http://www.khanya-aicdd.org/publications/SLSA20.pdf This issue goes back to the basics and draws on the emergence of community-driven development (CDD) as a key component of achieving sustainable livelihoods and development of the approach. No publisher Rahel SLSA Newsletter Learning and Sharing Sustainable Livelihoods Approach 2008-11-08T14:18:06Z publicationFile http://www.khanya-aicdd.org/publications/SLSA19.pdf This edition provides an overview of Khanya-aicdd’s approach to decentralisation. The sustainable livelihoods approach (SLA) puts people at the centre of development but also recognises the importance of transforming institutions and structures - especially the various levels of government, the private sector and other non government organisations which have a profound effect upon people’s livelihoods. Decentralising some of these elements can contribute to developing sustainable livelihoods if the process brings the management and delivery of services closer to the people and strengthens the links between government and citizens. It underlies approaches to responsive service delivery, to a development planning approach based on local planning, and to helping communities plan and manage their own development. No publisher Rahel SLSA Newsletter Rethinking Governance Learning and Sharing 2009-04-23T13:58:49Z publicationFile http://www.khanya-aicdd.org/publications/SLSA18.pdf This SLSA looks at the idea of local institutions and how they can play an integral role in supporting sustainable livelihoods. A number of SLSA’s focus on issues around local institutions, eg SLSA No 18 on Participatory Forest Management; and No 13 on Institutional Support for Sustainable Livelihoods. This edition aims to provide a conceptual framework which can assist us to understand these institutions. The author is Dr Frances Cleaver, a Senior Lecturer at the Bradford Centre for International Development in the UK, who has undertaken considerable work on local institutions and water. No publisher Rahel SLSA Newsletter Learning and Sharing 2009-04-23T14:22:07Z publicationFile http://www.khanya-aicdd.org/publications/SLSA17.pdf This SLSA focuses on Participatory Forest Management (PFM) in Tanzania and how it has supported the implementation of sustainable livelihoods. No publisher Rahel SLSA Newsletter Community Based Management Learning and Sharing 2008-11-08T14:13:04Z publicationFile http://www.khanya-aicdd.org/publications/SLSA16.pdf This SLSA focuses on FAO’s work on People-Centred Development with a Livelihoods Perspective. It was written by Siobhan Kelly of FAO’s Livelihoods Support Programme. In November 2004 FAO’s Livelihood Support Programme and some of its partners came together to look at examples of livelihoods projects to understand what works and what doesn’t work and how to improve their operations, impact and scaling-up. Three case studies from this workshop are highlighted in this issue. What emerges from this is the usefulness of looking at things from a livelihoods perspective in order to understand the complexities of livelihoods, and the importance of moving towards concrete livelihood interventions. No publisher Rahel SLSA Newsletter Learning and Sharing 2008-11-08T14:13:54Z publicationFile http://www.khanya-aicdd.org/publications/SLSA15.pdf This SLSA draws on work in South Africa on shelter, a focus of much effort of the liberation government. It is written by Irene Nemasetoni and Lauren Royston of Development Works, a development organisation based in Johannesburg, specialising in housing, urban land, planning and HIV and AIDS impacts on development No publisher Rahel SLSA Newsletter Learning and Sharing Sustainable Livelihoods Approach 2008-11-08T14:20:43Z publicationFile http://www.khanya-aicdd.org/publications/SLSA14.pdf This SLSA draws on emerging work to highlight what is needed around Community-Based Management (CBM). It draws on a range of work around empowering communities to develop a concept for CBM. No publisher Rahel SLSA Newsletter Community Based Management Learning and Sharing 2008-11-08T14:23:05Z publicationFile http://www.khanya-aicdd.org/publications/SLSA13.pdf This SLSA highlights the findings of ‘Goodbye to Projects: The institutional implications of using sustainable livelihoods approach to development interventions’ (Goodbye to Projects - GtP), Contents include: Background to Goodbye to Projects? (GtP) - GtP Finding - Useful Internet Resources - SL Activities No publisher Rahel SLSA Newsletter Learning and Sharing 2008-11-08T14:27:27Z publicationFile http://www.khanya-aicdd.org/publications/SLSA12.pdf This SLSA focuses on artisanal and small scale mining (ASM) and sustainable livelihoods. It provides a critical analysis of the impact of small scale mining on rural livelihoods. Contents include: Background to ASM; ASM and SLA; Useful Internet Resources No publisher Rahel SLSA Newsletter Learning and Sharing Food Security, Agriculture and Natural Resources 2008-11-08T14:26:38Z publicationFile