Need for a comprehensive approach to livelihoods promotion It goes without saying that the poor in most of India are a deprived lot on all counts. Thus promotion of livelihoods requires a slew of well orchestrated interventions, in scale, that can set in motion processes to transform the livelihood scenario. From experience of NGOs and large scale government programmes, a tentative protocol that has emerged can be summarized in the following stages: The core strategies for promoting livelihoods are: Social mobilization: Organizing communities into self help groups, VOs, clusters Improving the carrying capacity of the natural resource base-the chief asset for enhancing productivity Knowledge and skill development Setting livelihood systems at the grassroots: formation of producer collectives, service linkage development etc. Livelihood Perspective (To be filled by BPT after first village level meeting to capture understanding of livelihood options and interventions for the village and to be used as an input at the Gram Sabha while prioritizing works) List of Relative Approx. Average Degree Trend Issues various importance of percentage annual of in or livelihoods those sources of HHs income return possible in the for the village engaged in per from in village/ (Chappati these family this hamlet ranking) livelihoods source (10 point scale) What are Can u please According On an How Among What What various assign these to you out average much these are the could sources of cards to these of say 10 how this be the income in livelihoods as HHs how much a earning possible the village? per their many HHs family which ways to Let us write may be earns or are in these address those in to currently from this varies the these cards. village engaged in during economy these per last 5-6 which or livelihoods annum years or restricts increase (high, the income income
Need for a comprehensive approach to livelihoods promotion It goes without saying that the poor in most of India are a deprived lot on all counts. Thus promotion of livelihoods requires a slew of well orchestrated interventions, in scale, that can set in motion processes to transform the livelihood scenario. From experience of NGOs and large scale government programmes, a tentative protocol that has emerged can be summarized in the following stages: The core strategies for promoting livelihoods are: Social mobilization: Organizing communities into self help groups, VOs, clusters Improving the carrying capacity of the natural resource base-the chief asset for enhancing productivity Knowledge and skill development Setting livelihood systems at the grassroots: formation of producer collectives, service linkage development etc. Livelihood Perspective (To be filled by BPT after first village level meeting to capture understanding of livelihood options and interventions for the village and to be used as an input at the Gram Sabha while prioritizing works) List of various livelihoods in the village/ hamlet Relative importance of those sources for the village (Chappati ranking) Approx. percentage of HHs engaged in these livelihoods (10 point scale) Average annual income per family Degree of Trend in return from this source Issues or in possible What are various sources of income in the village? Let us write those in these cards. Can u please assign these cards to these livelihoods as per their to village economy According to you out of say 10 HHs how many HHs may be currently engaged in these livelihoods On an average how much a family earns from this per annum How much this earning or varies during last 5-6 years (high, Among these which are or What are the in these which restricts the income What could be the possible ways to address the or increase income