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Put simply, livelihoods are the ways in which people make a living and the resultant quality of their lives.
The way people make a living is defined by what they have (e.g. land, education, skills, access to financial resources, social networks, etc) and external forces including risks (e.g. illness, market prices, and natural disasters) and a dynamic set of political and institutional factors.
ITAD's expertise in this area is based on our breadth of expertise across major areas of development. We combine skills in social development, health, natural resources management, economics, governance, and institutions with work that spans direct engagement at community and national policy levels.
Our recent work on livelihoods includes a rural livelihoods project in Nigeria focused on improving the policy and institutional contexts for poor people's access to water resources, a long-term contract to evaluate the 10 projects in DFID's rural livelihoods portfolio in Bangladesh, and use of livelihoods concepts in the design of a large World Bank funded community driven development project in India.
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