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The mission statement draws upon the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (DFID Sustainable Livelihoods Guidance Sheets) |
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The central feature of a livelihoods framework is that people possess different amounts of five types of basic resources or “capital”. These are important in their own right to people's well-being. They are also assets – ways of storing and transforming capital so as to achieve livelihood security.
The Sustainable Livelihoods framework lists natural, human, financial, physical, and social capital or assets. The assets included in Omar Asghar Khan Development Foundation's mission statement are adapted, not replicated, from the Sustainable Livelihoods framework. They are:
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| Asset Base |
| Natural |
Land, forests, water, marine and wild resources |
| Produced |
Physical infrastructure and credit |
| Human |
Nutrition, health, education, skills and local knowledge |
| Political |
Power or powerlessness |
| Social |
Networks and dense patterns of association |
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| While the separation between these assets is to some extent arbitrary, it is important to note that one type of asset can often closely be linked to another. For example, a household can draw on its social capital, in the form of collective identity in order to enhance access to produced capital. |
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Copyright 2009 by Omar Asghar Khan Development Foundation
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