Adopting a <i>livelihoods approach</i> to development

Livelihoods are our means of everyday support and subsistence. As commonly conceived, a livelihood generates financial resources that come from employment or subsistence activities. But livelihoods also draw on other resources: human and social resources that give structure and context to our daily lives, as well as the natural and physical resources that underpin our work. In the 1990s, development agencies began to adopt this more holistic view of livelihoods, with the goal of focusing development activities more effectively. The UN Development Programme