Let us start with the most widely used approach and its
framework, namely the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) developed
by the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
Discuss the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (SLF) in pairs.
Try to figure out what its main elements are and how they are connected.
Make some notes about your interpretation of the framework.
Can you make the link between the SLF and the theory of
structuration? Make some notes and compare them with the
solution opposite.
Answer:
Transforming structures and processes, as well as the
vulnerability context, are all structures within which people have
access to resources. People do, however, have agency to choose
between a range of strategies (or possibilities) to achieve a
certain livelihood outcome. People have to deal with the given
structures to shape their livelihoods, but their activities also
continuously redefine and shape these given structures.
Now open the PDF file in the right-hand column and read the text
on the SLA and its framework carefully:
