Is SL of any value to field workers?
SL may be of value to different levels of field worker in different ways: For instance, field workers engaged in service delivery (e.g. agricultural extension; veterinary services) would be helped by SL perspectives to understand the vulnerability that the rural poor face, and the ways they might reach a balance between opportunities for increased income and those for greater security. SL perspectives can also help in understanding the importance of access to assets as a basis for sustainable gains in productivity. Armed with this understanding, field workers might better select from those available the types of service most relevant to particular categories of resource user. At a higher level, those field workers concerned with the implementation of poverty focused interventions will, by using SL perspectives, be in a strong position to monitor the uptake of interventions by different groups, making course corrections as necessary in order to change priorities and sequences so that be
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