Livelihoods connect

People’s livelihoods are central to productive uses of water. But what are livelihoods exactly? How can we understand them? How can we apply livelihoods concepts in our projects or programmes? If you want to know answers to these questions, Livelihoods Connect may be of interest to you. Livelihoods Connect is a learning platform for creating sustainable livelihoods to eliminate poverty. It provides a suite of information sharing, learning and management tools for researchers, policy makers, consultants and practitioners working in a broad range of institutions around the world. The goal of Livelihoods Connect is to enable the practical implementation of the sustainable livelihoods approach as a tool for achieving poverty reduction. Livelihoods Connect helps practitioners to organize and share their experience of implementing sustainable livelihoods (SL) approaches so everyone can learn. It also helps to support and enable networks, particularly between practitioners, policy makers and researchers, around SL themes. To do this Livelihoods Connect:

• hosts a moderated post-it board where practitioners can share their insights, experiences and views on using the sustainable livelihoods approach
• provides brief, jargon free and action orientated summaries of the latest experience and best thinking on sustainable livelihoods gathered from practitioners and researchers, plus the full texts online
• offers distance learning materials on the sustainable livelihoods approach
• underpins traditional training with online resources and practical tools
• delivers email updates to keep you briefed on relevant developments in SL
• provides online access to the Sustainable Livelihoods Guidance Sheets
• offers a personal enquiry desk to point practitioners in the direction of people and information if it can't immediately be tracked-down on the website
• facilitates discussion between researchers and practitioners on work in progress being undertaken by the Sustainable Livelihoods Resource Group

The group has published links to several outputs from members of the PRODWAT group.

http://www.livelihoods.org