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LEAF: Livelihoods, Empowerment and Agroforestry



Vision Vision at a Glance:

Communities are capable of taking charge of their own development.

Goal

Contribute to the poverty reduction of poor and extreme poor households through the development of human and institutional capacities and better local resource management.

Approaches
• Livelihoods approach
• Human and institutional development
• Market approach
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Human rights-based approach

Objectives
• Capacity development for accessing and using income and employment opportunities.
• Strengthening Community Organisations to promote self-help development processes.
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Promotion of exchanges and collaboration with other development organisations to increase the project's effectiveness.

Intervention area

Main activities

• Support to local development planning processes
• Promotion of improved agroforestry practices
• Promotion of Small Enterprise and Value Chain development
• Gender mainstreaming
• Special actions for extreme poor
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Establish collaboration and synergies with like-minded organisations and projects

Achievements (December 2008)

1,425 cluster platforms representing 4,666 community based organisations and 298,000 households (125,000 CBO member and 173,000 non member households) are presently:
• Identifying and implementing local development priorities
• Acquiring resources and services impacting on economic development
• Building linkages with service providing organisations and Union Parishads
• Developing service providers at local level, in collaboration with SAAKTI
• Addressing gender inequalities
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Involving the extreme poor in income generation activities


Budget

USD 11,05 million (2004 - 2010)

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