Based on a guided questionnaire and semi-structured interviews, the article provides both a detailed account of the diversity and spatiality of livelihoods in two villages in southern Sri Lanka and an analysis of the factors affecting differentiated access to non-farm livelihood activities. One key ...
Cultural Capital and Sustainable Livelihoods in Sri Lanka's Rural Villages: Towards Culturally Aware Development 来自 EBSCO 喜欢 0 阅读量: 36 作者:Chandima,Daskon,Andrew,McGregor 摘要: Increasing attention is being directed towards the role of culture in the development and well-being of rural ...
The fact that two‐thirds of the world's population is Asian and more than one‐half of that resides in rural villages provides an important context for this report on Sarvodaya's accomplishments in promoting mass participation in rural community development.J....
Lessons for the large-scale application of process approaches in Sri Lanka The process approach to the planning and management of development initiatives is being taken up by many donor and recipient agencies, yet there remains some lack of clarity over the exact meaning of the term. Also, over...
This paper on renewable energy and distributed generation in rural villages is meant for developing nations like Sri Lanka, where there is neither infrastructure of conventional source of energy nor sufficient conventional energy for distribution in some rural villages. It is intended for a reader popu...
return and resettlement process. The author argues that despite women's active involvement in migration and the 'empowerment and agency' gained through migration, the patriarchal power relations within rural households remain intact and continue to shape rural female returnees' life in their villages. ...
Rural Livelihood Strategies and the Five Capitals: A Comparative Study in the Selected Villages of Sri Lanka 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 30 作者: S Thennakoon 摘要: Regional imbalances in socio-economic development exist in Sri Lanka and these imbalances are caused by the availability ...
Of the 587,258 villages in the country (1991 census), 507,451 (86.4%) were declared electrified by December 31, 2000. Of the over 80,000 nonelectrified villages, most (99.14%) are in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, and Rajasthan. The ...
People from villages preferred to migrate for better livelihoods and healthcare. This was mainly due to the adaptation of a mixed economy, which resulted in development of the private sector. In 1901, the population residing in urbanized areas was about 11.4% of total population [27]; in 2001...
Having witnessed the hardships faced by children whose villages have no library facilities, Dasanayaka, a child protection officer for the government, was looking for ways to help them. Then three years ago, he launched his program, called "Book and Me". ...