Sustainable Livelihoods Approach
Annex 5: Participatory Methods for Livelihoods Analysis
- Livelihood outcomes
- Livelihood strategies
- Policies, institutions and processes
- Livelihood assets
- Vulnerability context
Livelihood outcomes
- Well-being ranking of social groups, communities or populations in regions (at different moments in recent history)
- Social mapping
- Cause-effect diagrams
- Analysis of historical aerial photographs and remote sensing images and data, with a particular focus on environmental change
Livelihood strategies
- Ranking of income sources
- Mapping of migration patterns
- Inventory and ranking of income and expenditure
- Seasonal calendars of production, employment and income
Policies, institutions and processes
- Venn diagrams
- Actor network analysis and ‘power network diagrams’
- Cause-effect and flow diagrams
- Market inventories and commodity price tracking
- Narratives or institutional histories from key informants (including on traditional rules, tenure and markets)
Livelihood assets
- Livelihood diagrams
- Asset surveys and resource mapping, including soil and vegetation surveys and inventories of the quality of housing stock, water supply and sanitation systems
- Seasonal calendars of asset availability and quality
- Social network and Venn diagrams
Vulnerability context
- Study of meteorological and demographic data
- Research in historical archives with a particular focus on political context and market fluctuations