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Book (series)Participatory Policy Reform from a Sustainable Livelihoods Perspective
Review of concepts and practical experiences
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No results found.Policies have considerable impact on people’s livelihoods. They influence the access people have to livelihoods assets and the strategic possibilities for employing these assets to reach favourable livelihoods outcomes. However, policies developed at central level are often not responsive to the policy needs at local level and, therefore, not conducive to local livelihood strategies. Local populations, especially poor and marginalized groups, have often a very weak or only indirect inf luence on the policy framework affecting their livelihoods. The development and application of tested strategies and institutional mechanisms to support the participation of the rural poor in policy making would facilitate the generation of policy frameworks to reduce poor people’s vulnerability and enable their access to the assets and services they require to pursue sustainable livelihoods. There are few documented experiences of participatory policy making (PPM) involving the ru ral poor, and still less analysis of those that have been documented. Nevertheless, it is possible to draw some initial lessons from these that would aid in the development of strategies and mechanisms to support the participation of poor people in policy making. -
Book (series)Improving access to natural resources for the rural poor - A critical analysis of central concepts and emerging trends from a sustainable livelihoods perspective 2002
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No results found.Section 1 will examine current debates around poverty, vulnerability and livelihood issues related to access to natural resources. Section 2 will describe the main features of the sustainable livelihoods approaches and relate them to current thinking about access to natural resources. Section 3 will describe and categorise the different types of problems and opportunities that the rural poor face with respect to access to natural resources. Section 4 will assess the extent to which an ‘SLA perspective’ can assist in better understanding the problems and opportunities described in 3 and in developing strategies for addressing them. Concrete examples of strategies that have been tried or proposed in which the goal of enhancing access to natural resources has explicitly been linked to supporting sustainable livelihoods are given in sections 3 and 4. -
DocumentImproving access to natural resources for the rural poor - The experience of FAO and of other key organizations from a sustainable livelihoods perspective 2002
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No results found.This report identifies FAO’s activities concerning access to natural resources (ANR), and identifies other organizations that use explicitly or implicitly a sustainable livelihoods approach in relation to ANR. The report constitutes Output 2.1 of the work plan of the FAO LSP Sub-programme 3.1 ("Building Stakeholder capacity to improve access to natural resources for the rural poor").
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