Sectors

The end-point in the ideal social development model, which begins with welfare, the term “sustainable livelihoods” encompasses skills training and job creation, enterprise development (capacity building, identifying market opportunities, local economic development and so on) and sustainable food security.

The development continuum model is used to assess all projects in this sector, not just those that focus on agricultural livelihoods, so projects that focus on survivalist, subsistence and livelihood initiatives are considered for support.

The Anglo American Chairman’s Fund aims to provide employment opportunities through skills training with placement, agricultural produce from subsistence to livelihood and entrepreneurship training that leads to demonstrable sustained economic activity.

Please note that De Beers supports sustainable livelihood projects primarily in communities surrounding its operations, namely in the municipalities of Siyanda, Ga-Segonyana, Taung, Frances Baard, Letsemeng, Nama Khoi, Kamiesberg and Richtersveld (Northern Cape), and Musina and Blouberg (Limpopo).

The FirstRand Fund supports the Sustainable Livelihoods sector through its Strategic Partners programme, which enables the Foundation to enter into meaningful funding relationships with a select number of partners on behalf of its group of member funds, in order to best effect the development and empowerment of South African communities on a national scale.

The Wesbank Fund Food Security and Agricultural Livelihoods Programme works with diverse projects around the country that have specific objectives in this sector.  These are to reduce vulnerability to, and the negative consequences of, household food insecurity, increase the participation of food-insecure households in productive agricultural sector activities, improve the flow and composition of nutrition through the support of food gardening and micro-financing initiatives, as well as support for emergency alternative short-term measures like the provision of food parcels, and empower individuals with the knowledge and skills to diversify their income sources, and thereby restore their self-respect, self-reliance and self-confidence.

Supportive Funds