Although funding sources for a PPR disease control programmes are limited in most developing countries, Somalia successfully vaccinated nearly 20 million sheep and goats against PPRV within a livelihood support programme framework.
In response to the country's needs and in line with its mandate, FAO supported the Somalia Government in developing a 15-year phased strategy for control of PPR with possible eradication (FAO 2011a, b, c) under a livelihood support programme.
The paper describes the mass PPR vaccination campaigns within a livelihood support programme framework, the suitability of vaccination as a tool for control of PPR virus circulation, and also discusses the practical implications of such a strategy in conflict-affected and fragile countries.
Without this careful analytical process, livelihood programmes won't be very effective.
In Katine, Amref's livelihood programmes are trying to economically empower women by ensuring they are included in farmers' groups and village savings and loans associations.
Refugee livelihood programmes should be built on economic research: In Uganda, refugees' economic activities are deeply nested in multiple layers of local economies and markets.
Alternative livelihood programmes are often used in multipleuse marine protected areas as incentives, compensation for lost opportunities, or as intervention strategies for poverty alleviation.
The register is to contain comprehensive information of the local resources, their medicinal and other usage associated with them, to help the locals come up with sustainable livelihood programmes around them.
"How much can you continue to give cash assistance to the family?" she asked, calling for livelihood programmes that would be more sustainable, or for the government to give work opportunities to Syrians.
Good practices include mother to mother support groups and targeting IMAM caretakers in livelihood programmes.
