This paper examines the role of cash-plus programming (including graduation) for livelihoods, income, protection, and health outcomes in contexts of different conflict intensity. We assess the origins ...

Lessons from IRC's cash and livelihoods programs in cities within Lebanon and Jordan Today, more than half of the world’s displaced people live in urban areas and the average length of displacement is ...

In conflict-affected situations, aid-funded livelihood interventions are often tasked with a dual imperative: to generate material welfare benefits and to contribute to peacebuilding outcomes. There ...

This paper describes the theory and practice of Oxfam GB’s livelihoods approach to assessing food security in emergencies. A livelihoods approach simply means emergency programming aimed at supporting ...

The focus of humanitarian assistance in conflict has understandably been on life-saving interventions. Yet conflict-related emergencies also have serious impacts on people’s livelihoods. Livelihood ...

Report: Finding economic opportunity in the city: lessons from IRC's cash and livelihoods programs in cities within Lebanon and Jordan Today, more than half of the world’s displaced people live in ...

Oxfam launched the Enterprise Development Programme (EDP) in Nepal in 2011. As a livelihoods programme, it aims to develop capabilities and markets for small rural enterprises, with a specific focus ...

The climate crisis has profound effects on people’s lives, particularly those reliant on subsistence agriculture and ecosystem goods for their livelihoods and health. There is growing recognition of ...

For many refugees, the humanitarian programmes focusing on "livelihoods" end up having merely an "accessory" role rather than generating sustainable labour. Civil defence members and civilians put out ...