Livelihood Approaches and 'Entry Points' for Intervention

Livelihood frameworks provide platforms that make it possible to distinguish more clearly between different alternative options (or entry points) for intervention to define development measures.

Look at the animation in the right-hand column. It shows the five entry points noted within the RLS framework:

Hence, in current development practice, an intervention in one of the five options may call for complementary support in one or more of the other four fields.
For example, access to micro-credit (entry point 4) might first require

  • establishing adequate lending rules from banks (entry point 2),
  • supporting small farmers so that they can handle credits (entry point 3) and additionally perhaps
  • changing the re-financing policies of the relevant national bank (entry point 1).

(SDC (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation) 2007)




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