Initiative on Sustainable Livelihood and enabling Social and Political Participation
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Purpose:
The project has been developed by a group of regional experts drawn from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka convened by the Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies with a view to developing, organizing and conducting the activities over a period of 3 years, commencing April 2004.
The principal objective of the programme will be to enable actors, agents, participants and potential beneficiaries to centre stage the people for a life in dignity, now and in future and the foundation being the SAARC Social Charter.
The right to sustainable livelihood, which enables and broadens social and political participation and enlarges the political society/societies in South Asia is a key focus. The specific area of focus in the objective is linked to provision of sustainable livelihood and social and political participation.
The specific rights under both themes are presented below:
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Provision of Sustainable Livelihood
1.1 Access to adequate standard of living including food, shelter,clothing, and livelihood
1.2 The right of self-determination for social, economic and cultural development
1.3 Ownership of natural resources and the access to their development
1.4 The enabling of choice for men and women for employment and work
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Social and Political Participation
2.1 The promotion and enabling of the right to thought, conscience, religion, opinion, expression, assembly, association and participation in governance
2.2 The right to self-determination and their determination of political status
2.3 Equality and non-discrimination before Law
2.4 The right of franchise
2.5 The right to liberty, security and movement.
Website of initiative:
Publications:
Saarc Social Charter, January 2005. (Can be found in the local languages in the South Asian Region)
Cost (specify currency):
900 000 EUR
Funding sources:
N(o)VIB, Oxfam Netherlands
Source of Data:
Using a combination of own and existing data
Type of Data Collection:
Administrative Data
Secondary sources
Specifications of type of data collection:
Other sources include questionnaires for database gathering. Questionnaires are sent out locally to get local organizational profiles and subsequntly the questionnaires are gathered from all the countries in the region and a regional database is compiled.
Main Users:
Civil society
Donor agencies
International agencies
Media
Policy makers
Researchers