From a livelihood perspective on development, we automatically consider two factors that
guide and influence the strategies of actors as they attempt to ensure their survival
and/or subsistence:
- The actor's endogenous potential and means (his/her 'assets') on the one hand; and
- Exogenous structures and processes, on the other.
This lesson presents a model, each part of which is numbered so that the user can click on
it. The user can thereby assess the reasons actors, within their livelihood strategies,
act and behave as they do, making use of their endogenous potential and means.
The model used to analyse these reasons is based on a conceptual framework of a four-fold
theory of action in order to bring in a regional and actor-oriented perspective on
development. This framework makes it possible to examine the relations between the
different activities of individual actors and to analyse the interplay of local and
external dynamics.
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