Income-Generating Activities - Action Against Hunger

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• The initiative for the creation of new IGA should come from the population itself.
• The scale on which to develop the IGA should be taken into consideration. For
example, to have market access it may be necessary to create or strengthen
some type of organisation that improves negotiation capacity.
• Two useful questions during the implementation of a programme to support and
promote IGA are: Is it a competitive and profitable activity This question must
be answered from the essentially lucrative point of view, evaluating the profit
to be gained by the beneficiary population. The IGA must be economically productive.
It is important to consider how this profit will materialize; in some cases
it will not be possible to evaluate it in terms of liquid cash, but rather in terms
of an increase in productive capital or social services. In the case that the answer
to the first question is yes, it is necessary to also ask the following: how
many vulnerable people will experience an increase in their incomes
Finally, it is necessary to consider that the success of IGA does not depend on the
type of activity, but rather the abilities and the knowledge of the person or group that
carry out the IGA and the socioeconomic context.
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INCOME GENERATING ACTIVITIES: A KEY CONCEPT IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SECURTIY