Community Assets First: The implications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach for the Coalition agenda

Thumbnail
Name:
rr-community-assets-first-1010 ...
Size:
952.1Kb
Format:
PDF
Description:
English report
Download
Author(s)
Cooper, Niall
Brill, Lucy
Haddad, Moussa
Newton, Rachel
Viitanen, Jenni
Editor(s)
Cox, Ed
Publication date
2011-10-10
Subject
Approach and methodology
Food and livelihoods
Inequality
Keywords
Civil society
Participation
Research methods
Poverty in the UK
Sustainable livelihoods approach
Development methods
Livelihoods
UK poverty
Country
United Kingdom

Metadata
Show full item record
Publisher(s)
Institute of Public Policy and Research North
Document type
Research report
Description
The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) is an analytical model that seeks to build on the existing assets and strategies that people living in poverty use to support themselves, and then to identify what needs to change in order for their livelihoods to become more secure and sustainable. The SLA takes as its starting point not deprivation but assets: the strengths and capabilities of people living in poverty, and the strategies they use, through drawing on these different assets, to 'get by'. Since 2005, Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty have been working with local partners to pilot the approach with people living in different low-income communities across the UK. Based on this experience, the authors - IPPR North, Urban Forum, Oxfam, and Church Action on Poverty - explore the benefits of taking a Sustainable Livelihoods Approach to public policy aspects such as welfare reform, job creation, housing and provision of local services and urge policy-makers, researchers and practitioners to use the SLA in designing anti-poverty work.
Pages
40
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10546/145256
Additional Links
https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/community-assets-first-the-implications-of-the-sustainable-livelihoods-approach-145256
Collections