The N2 scrap collectors: assessing the viability of informal recycling using the sustainable livelihoods framework

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherina J. Schenck ◽  
Nik Theodore ◽  
Phillip F. Blaauw ◽  
Elizabeth C. Swart ◽  
Jacoba M.M. Viljoen
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Livelihoods ◽  
Informal Recycling ◽  
Sustainable Livelihoods Framework ◽  
Livelihoods Framework

scholarly journals Development and testing of a community flood resilience measurement tool

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Keating ◽  
Karen Campbell ◽  
Michael Szoenyi ◽  
Colin McQuistan ◽  
David Nash ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Livelihoods ◽  
Development Work ◽  
Measurement Tool ◽  
Disaster Resilience ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Final State ◽  
Sustainable Livelihoods Framework ◽  
Flood Characteristics ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Livelihoods Framework

Abstract. Given the increased attention on resilience-strengthening in international humanitarian and development work, there is a growing need to invest in its measurement and the overall accountability of "resilience strengthening" initiatives. We present a framework and tool for measuring community level resilience to flooding, built around the five capitals (5Cs) of the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework. At the time of writing the tool is being tested in 75 communities across 10 countries. Currently 88 potential sources of resilience are measured at the baseline (initial state) and endline (final state) approximately two years later. If a flood occurs in the community during the study period, resilience outcome measures are recorded. By comparing pre-flood characteristics to post flood outcomes, we aim to empirically verify sources of resilience, something which has never been done in this field. There is an urgent need for the continued development of theoretically anchored, empirically verified and practically applicable disaster resilience measurement frameworks and tools so that the field may: a) deepen understanding of the key components of "disaster resilience" in order to better target resilience enhancing initiatives, and b) enhance our ability to benchmark and measure disaster resilience over time, and compare how resilience changes as a result of different capacities, actions and hazards.

scholarly journals Location Security and Environmental-Induced Displacement: a Case Study of the Riverine Islands in Bangladesh

Refuge ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
Brad K. Blitz
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Sustainable Livelihoods ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Specific Region ◽  
Environmental Pressures ◽  
River Deltas ◽  
Sustainable Livelihoods Framework ◽  
Livelihoods Framework

This article introduces the concept of ‘location security’ to describe the specific relationship between place, environ- mental and human security. It argues that ‘location security’ is determined by a location’s resilience to risk, understood in terms of the degree to which a specific region is protected by virtue of geographical endowments and has sufficient infrastructure to withstand and recover from the effects of environmental hazards and ensure that rights are protected. To illustrate the concept of location security, this article uses the sustainable livelihoods framework to explore actual and anticipated environmental pressures that affect the river deltas of Bangladesh, and examines the adaptation responses developed by the inhabitants of the riverine islands. A central finding of this article is that flexible migration and localised coping strategies based on acute knowledge of their local ecological and geological systems, enables the char dwellers to reduce their vulnerability. In this setting, human and environmental factors when harnessed may enhance agency to mitigate hazards.    

scholarly journals Income Changes in Association with Land Expropriation in Giang Điền Industrial Park, Đồng Nai Province

2014 ◽  
Vol 219 ◽  
pp. 109-126
Author(s):  
Bảo Nguyễn Hoàng ◽  
TUẤN NGUYỄN MINH
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Livelihoods ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Personal Income ◽  
Industrial Park ◽  
Land Expropriation ◽  
Sustainable Livelihoods Framework ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Livelihoods Framework

Land expropriation seems inevitable during industrialization and modernization. The expropriation of land affects greatly personal income of local residents. The research employs sustainable livelihoods framework suggested by DFID (2003) to analyze effects of land expropriation on local residents in Giang Điền Industrial Park (Trảng Bom District, Đồng Nai Province). The results identify four following factors that affect personal income: (1) ability to turn compensation into investments; (2) area of land expropriated; (3) education level of householder; and (4) dependence ratio.

Towards a Refugee Livelihoods Approach: Findings from Cameroon, Jordan, Malaysia and Turkey

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-142
Author(s):  
Caitlin Wake ◽  
Veronique Barbelet
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Central African Republic ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Sustainable Livelihoods ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Sustainable Livelihoods Framework ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Livelihoods Framework

Abstract This note from the field explores the purpose, process and value of using a sustainable-livelihoods framework and operational map to study refugee livelihoods. The current absence of a livelihoods framework specifically tailored to refugees has created a gap not only in research, but in policy development and application. This article reflects on the utility of this methodology to generate insight into the lives of refugees in four diverse contexts: Central African Republic (CAR) refugees in Cameroon; Rohingya refugees in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Syrian refugees in Zarqa, Jordan; and Syrian refugees in Istanbul, Turkey. The framework was helpful in that it enabled us to explore how refugees perceive their context, risks and possibilities as well their objectives, actions and strategies. As per Levine’s methodology, starting with refugees and their perceptions unlocked a new way of looking at the environment within which refugees try to sustain themselves and a deeper understanding of how refugees’ perceptions dictate their livelihood goals, strategies and actions. This article extends analysis to consider the broader policy implications that this specific methodological approach supports.

Implementing an mHealth app to combat hypertension in India's vulnerable populations

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Green ◽  
Hope Koch ◽  
Peter Kulaba ◽  
Shelby L. Garner ◽  
Carolin Elizabeth George ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Sustainable Livelihoods ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sustainable Livelihoods Framework ◽  
Beneficiary Community ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Livelihoods Framework

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to understand how to build and implement information and communication technology (i.e. ICT) to help vulnerable people when significant social, cultural and economic barriers exist between the stakeholders.Design/methodology/approachThe authors followed an action research approach to design and implement a mobile health hypertension education application to help India's most vulnerable populations. The authors used interpretive analysis, guided by the sustainable livelihoods framework, to uncover key findings.FindingsSuccessfully implementing information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) requires understanding that all stakeholders (i.e. donors, facilitators and the beneficiaries) have important assets to contribute. Facilitators play an important role in connecting donors to the beneficiaries and fostering cultural humility in donors so that the donors will understand the role beneficiaries play in success. Stakeholders may use the ICT4D in unintended ways that both improve the people's health and increase some beneficiaries' financial livelihood.Research limitations/implicationsThis research expands the definition of information systems success when implementing ICT4D in resource-constrained environments. Success is more than creating an mHealth app that was easy for beneficiaries to use and where they learned based on a pre- and post-test statistical analysis. Success involved development in all the stakeholders impacted by the social innovation collaboration. For the beneficiary community, success included getting screened for noncommunicable diseases as a first step toward treatment. For the facilitator, success involved more resources for their community health program. Amongst the donors, success was a change in perspective and learning cultural humility.Practical implicationsAlthough universities encourage faculty to work in interdisciplinary research teams to address serious world problems, university researchers may have to exert considerable effort to secure contracts, approvals and payments. Unfortunately, universities may not reward this effort to build ICT4D and continue to evaluate faculty based on journal publications. When universities undertake social innovation collaborations, administrators should ensure responsive and flexible university processes as well as appropriate academic reward structures are in place. This need is heightened when collaborations involve international partners with limited resources and time needed to build relationships and understanding across cultures.Social implicationsThis study discovered the importance of fostering cultural humility as a way of avoiding potential conflicts that may arise from cultural and power differences. Cultural humility moves the focus of donor-beneficiary relationships away from getting comfortable with “them” to taking actions that develop relationships and address vulnerabilities (Fisher-Borne et al., 2015). This research shows how the facilitator helped the donor develop cultural humility by involving the donor in various initiatives with the beneficiary community including allowing the donor to live in a dormitory at the hospital, work in an urban slum and visit health screening campus.Originality/valueThis study (1) extends the ICT4D literature by incorporating cultural humility into the sustainable livelihoods framework, (2) provides a contextual understanding of developing cultural humility in ICT4D projects with a complex group of stakeholders and (3) describes how facilitators become a catalyst for change and a bridge to the community. The culturally humble approach suggests revising the livelihood framework to eliminate words like “the poor” to describe beneficiaries.

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