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Figure T12: SAPA Initiative Modified Sustainable Livelihoods Framework
Drivers
- Policies
- Institutions
- Markets
Physical
- Built assets
- Non-built assets
(luxury goods)
Political / Legal
- Rights
- Empowerment
- Participation
- Gender/age/class
- Governance
Social / Cultural
- Networks
- Status
- Cultural traditions
Livelihood strategies
- individual
- household
- community
- local and distant
stakeholders
Natural
- Provisioning
- Regulating
- Supporting
Source: Reproduced with permission from Schreckenberg, K., Camargo, I., Withnall, K., Corrigan, C., Franks, P.,
Roe, D. and Scherl, L.M. 2010. Social Assessment of Protected Areas: a review of rapid methodologies. A report
for the Social Assessment of Protected Areas (SAPA) Initiative. International Institute for Environment and
Development. London, UK
T3.3 The Social Carbon Methodology (SCM)
Human
- Health
- Education
- Food security
Vulnerability context
- Shocks
- Trends
- Seasonality
Financial
- Income
- Savings / Credit
- Alternative livelihoods
As explained in SIA Stage 5, the Social Carbon Methodology (SCM) is linked to the Social Carbon
Standard, which is being increasingly used in Brazil in particular, and is based on six capital assets or
'resources' – natural, financial, human, social, carbon and biodiversity. The SCM involves the
following stages (Social Carbon, 2009):
• Diagnosis or 'zero point assessment' involving questionnaires, semi-structured interviews of
key informants, focus groups and other meetings. This should result in a description of all
the possible positive or negative social, economic and environmental impacts;
• Selection of indicators from a list of approved indicators for each resource type;
• Monitoring of indicators using the 'zero point assessment' as the baseline, resulting in
annual or periodic monitoring reports;
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