livelihood
When one person’s livelihood changes, it can impact an entire family, then a whole community.
Tae Yoo
livelihood
Through job creation, quality public services and better working conditions, people, communities and countries can lift themselves out of poverty, improve livelihoods, engage in local development and live together in peace. This happens only when work is decent – environmentally sound and productive – provides fair wages, and is underpinned by rights
-Sharan Burrow
How to overcome poverty?
• Promoting poverty eradication in rural areas;
• Promoting pro-poor planning and budgeting at the national and local levels;
• Addressing basic needs and enhancing provision of and access to services as a precursor to improve livelihoods and as an enabling factor of people?s engagement in productive activities;
• Providing social protection programmes to benefit, inter alia, the vulnerable households, in particular the aged, persons with disabilities and unemployed many of whom are in rural areas
A livelihood is sustainable when it enables people to cope with and recover from shocks and stresses (such as natural disasters and economic or social upheavals) and enhance their well-being and that of future generations without undermining the natural environment or resource base.