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The
mission
statement draws upon the Sustainable Livelihoods
Framework (DFID Sustainable Livelihoods Guidance
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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: |
| 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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