Poverty and inequality are multidimensional and complex in their causes and expressions. No single intervention is able to respond to all dimensions of poverty.
Single interventions, in isolation, are unlikely to be effective in addressing poverty and inequality.
Responses require multi-dimensional and multiple approaches; this will likely necessitate integration between Departments, as well as collaboration between government and other stakeholders.
The Department of Socia Development adopted, and institutionalised, the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) as a viable vehicle to address the challenges of poverty, unemployment, and inequality.
This approach has been fully embraced by the Social Development Sector and it is being implemented across all Provinces.
The Mohlala Tlosie Alice household is situated at Maromeng (D) Bushbuckridge local municipality.
She is the breadwinner of the household and stays with her five children.
They stay in a seven-room house and it is incomplete.
Ma Alice is the local seamstress whose business had always faced challenges of low production numbers due to her sewing machine.
In 2021 the Department of Social Development identified Ma Alice as a business that needed support by supplying with a new industrial sewing machine, an Industrial Over Locker Machine, 3-reel complete with table, stand, and half HP motor.
Ever since she was funded her business has acquired contracts to supply schools and churches uniforms in the area.
• The SLA approach focuses on people and their capacities, assets, and strengths rather than on their needs, weaknesses, and constraints.
• It identifies people’s strengths and uses these to enhance their capabilities and assets in order to sustain their livelihood strategies and activities.
• The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach is a very powerful tool that could be used as a primary planning tool to identify livelihood interventions within a particular community.
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