The LEGS Project aims to continue to provide practical guidance for both field workers and decision makers to design and implement livelihood-based responses in support of pastoralists and other livestock keepers facing drought and other disasters.
This article is based on the qualitative observations made by the researcher while implementing psychosocial support, livelihood development, microfinance and self-help group formation, health intervention projects, and so on.
As many of these obstacles and challenges lie beyond the control of the individual patient, addressing adherence in low- and middle-income settings, therefore, may require eliminating or lowering user fees and patient costs, bringing care closer to the patients, and implementing community-based livelihood development strategies.
We explore a very specific effect of women's empowerment on efforts to implement more sustainable livelihood practices by women participating in collective microenterprise activities.
The 2009 debris flow disaster resulted in traumatic experiences for rural Salvadorans and underscored the challenges in implementing effective risk reduction when livelihoods and social support networks are disrupted.
The funding provided by the mining company did not compensate for the lack of institutional support for designing and implementing income-generating projects capable of providing sustainable livelihoods to the villagers.
Empirical evidence is weak on the practice and impacts of implementing PES in a centralized governance and rural livelihood context (McElwee 2012).
In addition, cultivation, management and sustainable harvesting practices should also be implemented to improve the livelihood security of rural people.
Frameworks for implementing nexus thinking, however, have failed to explicitly or adequately incorporate sustainable livelihoods perspectives.
One objective driving the government was that implementing PES policy would draw significant stakeholders into forest protection, improve local livelihoods, and contribute to poverty alleviation.
