Sustainable Livelihoods

Primary Goals

Supporting capabilities, assets and rights required for a decent living

Sustainability

future generations

Together with our partner organisations, we strengthen practices that conserve and regenerate ecosystem services, enhance biodiversity and allow for the generation of a decent income. Our goal is to ensure sustainable livelihoods, that can withstand and recover from stresses and shocks, while conserving the natural resource base and meeting the needs of present and future generations.

Integrality

community resilience

Understood in an integral way, livelihood entails more than just “earning a living” – it includes the wider context of people's lives and the various factors that contribute to their well-being. Our efforts link environmental stewardship, community resilience, food security and economic empowerment, aiming for a multidimensional impact.

Inclusivity

equal access

Our projects emphasise locally led and self-sustaining methods and approaches, supporting people in taking an active role in shaping their livelihoods. We emphasise equitable access to, control and decision making over natural and productive resources, particularly for women, youth, and marginalised people and value traditional/indigenous knowledge.

Focus

Areas of work

Environmental Stewardship

Promoting community-based and integrated approaches for the sustainable management of water, land and forests and other natural resources
Advancing climate and environmental education as well as risk management
Improving waste management, and the access to safe drinking water and sanitation

Sustainable Food Production

Strengthen gender-sensitive, climate-resilient, and sustainable food systems through agroecology, agroforestry, organic farming, and regenerative approaches.
Promote climate-resilient and autochthonous seeds, crops, and livestock varieties.
Facilitate knowledge exchange and advocate for laws supporting community-based, sustainable management of natural resources, ecosystems, smallholders, and small enterprises, ensuring equitable access to productive resources.

Economic Empowerment

Diversification and adaptation of production and income opportunities
Advancing social entrepreneurship, technical and business skills, cooperative production and marketing, access to (micro)finance and group saving approaches
Supporting the participatory analysis of value chains and market opportunities, the development of marketing and communication strategies and certification processes, enabling innovative solutions and informed decisions for marketing and sales

Participants

Levels of participation

Individuals

Together with our partner organisations we focus on awareness raising, know-how and technical transfer between individuals and access to productive resources, particularly for disadvantaged groups so they can secure or improve the sustainability of their livelihoods.

Organisations

Through our projects we strengthen and promote networks and exchange, not only among our partner organizations, but also with external actors. Additionally, we support our partners in the gender sensitive mainstreaming of environmental and climate issues on an organisational and programmatic level.

Societies

We strengthen networking activities and knowledge exchange between our partner organisations and foster advocacy skills, policy dialogue, and media engagement to advance the political claims of the communities they work with.

Experiences

Learn from experiences. These projects contribute to sustainable livelihoods.

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Capacitating farmers to produce high quality compost manure

Animal proteins with just little space and few external inputs

Installing rainwater tanks and treatment systems

Building nurseries and passing on knowledge

Learning from failure: From hydroponic to agroecological methods

Saving groups and credit culture for sustainability of projects

Gaining access: putting agroecological training into practice

Improving soil quality and increasing production

Cooperation between refugee and host community farmers in Uganda

Bokashi compost can improve soil structure and fertility

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