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Designing a Livelihood Intervention
Tools and techniques to design an employment intervention
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This is a chapter from Resource Book for Livelihood Promotion. The module:
- Discusses the process of designing a livelihood intervention;
- Suggests some tools and techniques that can be used to design such an intervention.
The paper includes description of the following three different stages in the design process:
- Observing and understanding the local economy:
- Getting to know the people: understanding their diversified livelihood portfolio;
- Assessing factor conditions;
- Understanding local demand condition.
- Selecting livelihood activities suitable for the poor in the area:
- Triangulation: putting the information on people, the factor and demand conditions together;
- Understanding the demand condition of the short-listed activities better.
- Deciding on intervention:
- Narrowing down the number of proposed activities;
- Identifying the exact interventions to be made;
- Conducting an exercise to explore the external environment;
- Overlaying organizational competence;
- Carrying out a full sub-sector analysis.
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