Improving Institutional Support to Promote Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa
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This paper looks at institutional issues which influence support for livelihoods. It builds in particular on two significant pieces of work in Africa, research carried out in Southern Africa by Khanya (And for this it draws on Goldman et al (2000a and b)), and an evaluation of UNDP’s Global SL Programme, as well as Khanya’s other work in a total of 13 African countries. Much of this work has used the SLA and involved a vertical transect from village to the centre to see the impact of policy and services on poverty. As a result a framework of 6 questions has been developed for looking at institutional issues, focusing around institutions at different levels (micro, meso, macro). The key findings from this work are summarised according to levels of support and action, types of organisation, policy issues and the process of managing change to promote SLs. The key policy learnings are:
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تاریخ انتشار 2011