What Is Sustainable Livelihoods Framework?

The sustainable livelihoods approach is a holistic approach that tries to capture, and provide a means of understanding, the fundamental causes and dimensions of poverty without collapsing the focus onto just a few factors (e.g. economic issues, food security, etc.).

What is livelihood framework?

The livelihoods framework is a way of looking at the complexity of people's livelihoods, especially the livelihoods of the poor, whether they be rural or urban. It seeks to understand the various dimensions of a person's livelihood; the strategies and objectives pursued, and associated opportunities and constraints.

What is sustainable livelihood PDF?

Livelihood is considered to be sustainable when it is able to cope with and recover from stresses and shocks and sustain or improve its assets, capabilities, and activities both at present and future without undermining the natural resource base (Carney, 1999; Serrat, 2017) .