Building sustainable livelihoods

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Building sustainable livelihoods

• Antonia Bance
• Head of UK poverty policy and communications

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Oxfams UK programme

• Established 1997
• Works on
• Income and assets
• Labour rights and pay
• Asylum and migration
• Race and gender equality
• Attitudes to poverty

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Oxfams work on race, gender and poverty

• Working with partners
• Working on
• Livelihoods
• Race analysis
• Supporting grassroots involvement in national
  policy
• Attitudes to poverty and racism

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Whats all this about sustainable livelihoods
then?
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Sustainable livelihoods model
Source DFID Sustainable Livelihoods Guidance
sheets
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Where we start from - the context and
vulnerability
What we have assets human locational
financial social physical
What happens - livelihoods outcomes
How the outside world affects us - government
culture private sector
How we deal with it all - livelihoods strategies
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Welcome to Splott
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Welcome to Riverside
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Headlines

• All groups experienced instability
• White men in highest paid and skilled jobs
• White women in precarious employment
• 70 of Asian men in work but remittances

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Asian women in Riverside

• Complex coping
• Little financial capital
• Significant social assets positive and negative
• Structural barriers

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What difference does race make?

• Lack of mobility
• Caring responsibilities
• lack of financial assets
• White women in employment and in debt
• Asian women not in employment and use social
  assets

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Social capital a double-edged sword?

• Important support for Asian women
• But prevents independent livelihood
• Family support hides poverty
• Withdrawal of family support can have acute
  consequences

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Emerging implications
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Building sustainable livelihoods

• Antonia Bance
• Head of UK poverty policy and communications

With thanks to South Riverside Community
Development Centre