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Livelihood Enhancement Action Plan: (LEAP)

Livelihood Enhancement Action Plan (LEAP) is a core process for developing ideas for community development projects that involves total participation from the community. LEAP uses tools like social and resource maps, income/expenditure analyses, and value chain analyses of significant livelihoods to identify constraints, best practices, resource needs, and local opportunities for improving livelihoods of the poor. LEAP covers activities that can be directly undertaken by community members, developing knowledge on critical livelihood sectors, and establishing market intelligence and linkages to resources. The focus is on major livelihood categories like landless labor, artisans, migrant workers, agriculture, livestock, fisheries.

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Livelihood Enhancement Action Plan: (LEAP)

Livelihood Enhancement Action Plan (LEAP) is a core process for developing ideas for community development projects that involves total participation from the community. LEAP uses tools like social and resource maps, income/expenditure analyses, and value chain analyses of significant livelihoods to identify constraints, best practices, resource needs, and local opportunities for improving livelihoods of the poor. LEAP covers activities that can be directly undertaken by community members, developing knowledge on critical livelihood sectors, and establishing market intelligence and linkages to resources. The focus is on major livelihood categories like landless labor, artisans, migrant workers, agriculture, livestock, fisheries.

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LIVELIHOOD ENHANCEMENT ACTION PLAN

(LEAP)

What is LEAP

Livelihoods Enhancement Action Plan (LEAP), the core process from which any Development project ideas evolves, emerges with the total involvement and accord of the community.

Tools of Village Livelihood Enhancement Action Plans


social and resource maps Income and expenditure pattern analysis, tradedin and traded-out, items analysis, analysis of significant livelihoods of the poor and value-chain analysis of these significant livelihoods for constraints costs, practices, best practices, credit requirements, resource constraints, technology gaps, etc., and local opportunities available to them, etc.

LEAPs cover all the poor, starting with


The activities/items that can be attempted directly by the poor on their own (individually or in their groups) Developing the knowledge on the critical livelihood sectors and disseminating the same to the poor through appropriate mechanisms (activists and associates included) Establishing the systems of market intelligence (including prices) Tapping appropriate funds for community infrastructure and barefoot activists/professionals Augmenting the skills of the community in marketing, and establishing linkages, including market, at appropriate levels and accessing the required resources (as a single source, as far as possible)

Focus of LEAP Exercise


The Focus is broadly on major categories of the livelihoods of the poor viz. Landless farm/non-farm labour. Rural Artisans and Skilled workers in non-traditional products. Migrant labour. Dry-land agriculture crops, Horticulture, N.T.F.P/Medicinal plants. Small livestock; Inland and Coastal fisheries; Rural Artisans and Skilled workers in non-traditional products.

Aspects of LEAP PROCESS


Existing social conditions by social maps Available resources by resource map Income and Expenditure patterns Traded-in and Traded-out Analysis of existing and possible alternative livelihoods Analysis of value chains of existing livelihoods, identification of gaps and constraints for possible interventions and best practices Analysis of Local opportunities Analysis of (Village) Farming System

CHECK LIST of LEAP/ Livelihood Analyses


Resources Technology Knowledge & Values Livelihood Strategy Rapid livelihood system diagnosis

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