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The Australian Development Gateway (ADG) strives to support members of the development community in their efforts to reduce poverty and enhance sustainable development in the Asia Pacific region. The site has been created with participation from members of government, private, academia and non-government organisations. User feedback mechanisms have been incorporated to guide future directions of the site. The site is optimised for low bandwidth access to enable the widest participation throughout the Asia Pacific region.

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Guidance sheets on the sustainable livelihoods approach

The Sustainable Livelihoods approach provides a framework for understanding and analysing how aid interventions impact livelihoods of the poor.

The framework views people as operating in a context of vulnerability. Within this context, they have access to certain assets or poverty reducing factors. These gain their meaning and value through the prevailing social, institutional and organisational environment. This environment also influences the livelihood strategies - ways of combining and using assets - that are open to people in pursuit of beneficial livelihood outcomes that meet their own livelihood objectives.

This has potentially useful applications to aid practitioners involved in designing, implementing or evaluating microenterprise and microfinance activities in poor communities.

 

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