Marginalized and vulnerable groups/individuals are capable of effectively mobilizing material, human, financial, institutional network and appropriate technological resources to sustainably manage small enterprises for secured livelihood.

Individuals have an innate capacity and ability to enhance their socio-economic activity when they are provided with the appropriate knowledge, skills and resources for a secured livelihoods.

CEDEP has to take advantage of the opportunities presented by the goodwill towards NGO partnership in the sector. Links to research institutions can also facilitate the identification of potentials for alternative natural resource-based livelihood options (cultivation and processing) for the poor in the rural and peri-urban areas. 

Key strategies

• Available capital assets (social, human, and physical, technical, financial) from the environment assessed

• Improving livelihood package developed and introduced

• Livelihood groups formation

• Establishing of linkages with financial sources