This research paper endeavoured to identify the role of TBAs in supporting the MNCH care, partnership mechanism with the formal health system and also explored livelihood options for TBAs.
This research endeavours to identify the role of traditional birth attendants (TBAs) in supporting the maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) care, partnership mechanism with a formal health system and also explored livelihood options for TBAs in the health system of Pakistan.
Some of these are consistent with the findings of our 2011 systematic review exploring livelihood factors and ART adherence [ 25] although we were limited by the available literature and could not identify new factors that may be relevant or specific to Malawi.
These factors make it necessary to call for alternative lines of questioning and hypothesis generation about pastoralism and pastoralist's lives, particularly as we explore current livelihood practices and pastoral economics in our highly globalized world.
Among the Turkana, for example, impacts of drought, increasing insecurity and famine has forced sedentarisation of once pure nomadic and semi-nomadic pastoralists to explore alternative livelihoods (Watson and Binsbergen 2008).
The project explored the livelihood strategies of coffee growers in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica facing multiple stressors of economic (market shocks and price volatility) and physical nature (climate variability and pest incidence).
The ultimate objective of this study was to explore people's livelihood strategies, with special emphasis on their ability to cope with hazards such as volcanic eruptions, coastal erosion, earthquakes, droughts, and high wind.
Reading about folks who meditate, or cross-culturally explore or practice right livelihood is my version of armchair traveling.
Linking livelihood approaches to resilience thinking is imperative to enhance the understanding of livelihood dynamics and to explore how households maintain and improve their livelihoods in the face of natural disasters (Scoones, 2009; Sallu et al., 2010).
To achieve this, a multidimensional index was created to spatially explore the landscape of livelihoods across rural Nepal.
