2. Livelihood Protection

Purpose: To protect households from losing their productive assets or to assist in getting them back (rehabilitation/mitigation)

Explanation: Interventions entail timely food and income transfers that can reduce long-term vulnerabilities resulting from the forced selling of productive assets to meet immediate food and other needs. The negative impacts of livelihood insecurity can be reduced by:

· Timely detection of where livelihood and food insecurity are likely to occur

· Establishing contingency plans that can be implemented in a timely fashion before a significant erosion of household assets occurs and other erosive coping strategies are activated.

Examples of interventions include:

· Infrastructure improvements and repair
· Soil and water conservation
· Child survival and health interventions
· Distribution of seeds and tools
· Repair of water sites.