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A person's livelihood (derived from life-lode, "way of life"; cf. OG lib-leit) [1] refers to their "means of securing the basic necessities (food, water, shelter and clothing) of life". Livelihood is defined as a set of activities essential to everyday life that are conducted over one's life span.
Project micro-finance institutions cover 1200 families in Jhabua District, 1621 self-help groups have access to Rs3 million and nearly 100,000 families are covered by some kind of insurance. By August 2010, Gram Sabhas had loaned Rs73.44 million to self-help groups and Rs720.51 to individuals.
One example of an activity that aims for enhancing sustainable livelihood is the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposed by the United Nations. All of their 17 goals for 2030 are the aimings that the world needs to be achieved to ensure that "no one is left behind" and a sustainable world. [6]
The National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) is a poverty alleviation project implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development, a branch of the Government of India.This plan is focused on promoting self-employment and the organization of rural poor.
Tzedek is a UK-based registered charity [1] organisation which aims to provide a Jewish response to the problem of extreme global poverty. Registered as a charity in 1993, [2] Tzedek has a number of overseas development programmes, working closely with local NGOs to alleviate extreme poverty in Northern Ghana and Northeast & Southeast India.
Microgrants for community projects provide a novel opportunity for people facing poverty to solve their own local problems with financing that need not be paid back. For example, Spark MicroGrants is known for such community-based approach to microgranting. Spark pairs capacity building facilitation with their microgrants to ensure communities ...
Integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs), are biodiversity conservation projects with rural development components. It is an approach that aspires to combine social development with conservation goals. [1] These projects look to deal with biodiversity conservation objectives through the use of socio-economic investment tools.
In 2014, WWF partnered with NTFP-EP Cambodia to design alternative livelihood projects for forest-based communities in the Kratié and Stung Treng provinces. [ 27 ] In 2017, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and NTFP-EP Philippines jointly established a School of Living Tradition in Benguet province to help preserve indigenous ...