Impact assessment in the Sustainable Livelihood Framework

Rijn, Fédes van; Burger, Kees; Belder, E. den

doi:10.1080/09614524.2012.696586

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“…In accordance with the study of van Rijn et al (2012), who studied the impacts of coffee certification from a livelihood perspective, our research reveals that capacity building plays a vital role. Certification encourages the transformation of an unorganized, fragmented and uncontrolled plantation production into an organized one.…”

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“…higher prices, premium fees or opening a niche market) that remain highly uncertain for smallholders (Bitzer and Glasbergen 2015). Moreover, private standards do not seem to improve the vulnerable position of smallholders significantly (van Rijn, Burger, andden Belder 2012, Bacon 2005).…”

Section: Northern Certification Initiatives Debatedmentioning

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“…Following van Rijn et al (2012), who connected the livelihood concept to impact research, we take the livelihood concept as a starting point to analyze the relationships between certification and smallholders' living conditions. We consider the livelihood concept a powerful notion to select and arrange variables and to create order in the conceptual complexity underlying the relation between certification and impact.…”

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“…This implies that the farmers -even when confronted with stresses and shocks -are able to maintain or enhance their capabilities and assets, without undermining their natural resource base. A limitation of current studies on the impact of stresses and shocks on the sustainability of livelihoods is that they only pay attention to the vulnerability context and the coping strategy of farmers (see Hidayat et al 2015;van Rijn et al 2012, Swift 2006, Schneider and Niederle 2010. Their recovering ability remains largely neglected although this is an equally important concept explaining the sustainability of farmers' livelihoods (Scoones 2009;Speranza et al 2014;Marschke and Berkes 2006;Nyamwanza 2012).…”

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“…To properly assess the multi-dimensionality of farmers' livelihoods, a holistic view which looks at all aspects and assets of farmers' livelihoods and multi-criteria analysis is recommended (DFID 1999;Kusters et al 2006;Leeuw & Vaessen 2009;de Janvry et al 2010;van Rijn et al 2012). Based on our study, we propose a methodology combining participatory approaches and more conventional rigorous data assessment methods to evaluate project's impacts.…”

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Who views what? Impact assessment through the eyes of farmers, development organization staff and researchers

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2013

International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ec

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The present study assesses the impact of a rural development project on farmers' livelihoods, as perceived by farmers, development organization staff and researchers. The project concerned, aimed to increase small-scale farmers' financial benefits by promoting the commercialization of Ricinodendron heudelotii (Baill.) Pierre ex Pax kernels (njansang) in Cameroon. The three parties evaluated the impacts of the project, over the 2005-2010 period, through indicators embedded in the Sustainable Livelihood Framework (natural, financial, human, social and physical assets). Project households were compared with control households.Results show that farmers' and development organization staff's views were aligned regarding the relative importance of the indicators to measure success (with overlaps > 85%). The three stakeholders evaluated changes of farmers' livelihood indicators over the 2005-2010 period on 5-point Likert items. All three stated that most indicators improved significantly more in project than in control households (p < 0.001). Development organization staff probably overestimated changes induced by project interventions as they perceived significantly larger changes as compared with farmers and researchers (p < 0.05). Our study highlights the differences between impact perceived by farmers, development organization staff and researchers and helps to build the knowledge base of the potential and reliability of participatory evaluation approaches. Furthermore, an approach to assess impacts on people's livelihood is proposed, combining the strengths of participatory evaluation with those of classic evaluation methods.

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Modelling Clean Energy for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods

Cherni¹

2020

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Modelling, especially as applied to energy, is the process of building computer models of energy systems in order to analyze them. An energy system can be defined as the combined processes of acquiring and using energy in a given society or economy (Jaccard 2005); and an energy system comprises all components related to the production, conversion, delivery, and use of energy (Allwood et al. 2014). Energy models employ physical, mathematical, or logical representation of a system, entity, phenomenon, or process and are used to project the future energy demand and supply of a country, region, or rural community. They simulate policy and technology choices that may influence future energy demand and supply and hence investments in energy systems (Herbst et al. 2012). Modelling clean energy can be simply defined as deliberately promoting technologies that have lower impact on the environment compared to the fossil fuel options. Clean energies are also known as alternative or low-carbon technologies and most often referred to as renewable energy, like solar, wind, biomass, micro-hydro, and geothermal. These technologies are clean, usually inexpensive, and easy to maintain and operate (Chowdhury et al. 2015). Specifically as applied to rural areas of developing countries, clean energy for sustainable livelihoods can be merely defined as the design and implementation of energy systems that warrant effective and affordable clean energy for enhancing economic, infrastructure, environmental, social, and human resources to ensure users' subsistence over the long term (Cherni et al. 2007).

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Impact assessment in the Sustainable Livelihood Framework

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