LIVELIHOOD

Some points on the preamble

• Issue on typical vocational rehabilitation.
• Importance of traditional skills.
• Decent and fair employment / work on Importance of commercial market analysis.
• Focus on service sector.

Elements and their contents

Skills training

• Vocational – formal and informal/traditional
• Skills transfer from home to work o Life and work skills and orientation
• Vocational guidance
• Mainstream skills training

Access to capital

• Savings inc. group savings
• Guarantors and collateral
• Knowledge of resources and sources of capital
• Linkage and possible merging with other mainstream groups

Income generating activities

• companies
• Protected [sheltered] schemes
• Focus on service sector
• On-going guidance and support

Open Employment

• Active lobbying
• Legal obligations on employers inc. affirmative action and quotas
• Diversity awareness within communities
• Equality of treatment at work for people with disabilities
• ‘Reasonable adjustments’ by an employer e.g. adaptations to working environment, ways of working
• Supported employment [inc. job coaching, mentoring etc.]
• Social capital and enterprise

Economic contribution and social protection

For those working:

• As resource persons e.g. peer support and counselling.
• At skills training and as role models.
• At employment creation – services and goods to the community.
• At contributing to the household.
• At consumer role – services and goods.
• At Economic empowerment.

For those who cannot get employment nor have a decent income:

• Social security.
• Mutual assistance in community.
• Micro insurance schemes i.e. pensions, health and funeral expenses.
• Support from family or official career guidance
• Table – banking, savings.