Livelihood Promotion and Facilitation
 

Summary of major assignments

Operating Design
The operating design of Four X 4 Consulting Pvt. Ltd is geared towards providing a multiple set of services to private, government or international donor agencies, intermediary CSOs, grassroots and federations and groups of people to qualitatively improve the lives of poor, marginalized, and excluded. These services or products include management and consulting support services for people's organizations for ensuring good governance through institutional development or people’s capacity building, facilitation/provision of micro-finance, IT enabled products like database creation and management, development of user-friendly websites.....

The vulnerability of excluded communities and groups is characterized as insecurity in the well-being of the face of uncertainties to earn steadily to ensure basic necessities like health, nutrition, education and shelter. People on the fringes move in and out of poverty because of the lack of a steady source of income which is in turn because of lack of employable or income generating skills as well as opportunities. Livelihood strategies aim to achieve livelihood outcomes. Decisions on livelihood strategies may invoke natural-resource based activities, non-natural resource based and off-farm activities, etc. Potential livelihood outcomes can include more income, increased well-being, reduced vulnerability, improved food security, more sustainable use of the natural resource base, and recovered human dignity.

 Towards promoting these goals FourX4 has engaged itself in skill training and capacity building of people as well as assisting organisations in evolving suitable intervention programmes through concurrent assessment of their programmes and continuous hand holding.

 Some of the major initiatives are:

 

 

 Assist in developing livelihood promotion plans and group based enterprises for PACS Phase-I as a resource agency
Initiate Impact Assessment Studies in Livelihoods Promotion, Entitlement Realization, Gender, Panchayati Raj and Institutional    Development Processes in PACS Phase-I
Advising SOS Children’s Villages of India in promotion of suitable market-oriented livelihood opportunities through situation analysis    of locations like Jammu, Srinagar, Bhopal, Nagapattinam, Rourkela, etc.
Conducted study for promotion of livelihoods and economic self-reliance of care-givers in many programme locations of SOS India
Development of Livelihoods Enhancement programmes for the elderly people through Community based Elder SHG Organizations in    Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, carried out for HelpAge India
Development of first ever micro-credit based entrepreneurship programmes for the aged in various locations in India, for HelpAge    India
Evaluation of community based livelihoods promotion project, funded by European Commission and KKS-Germany in 2005, 2007    and 2010 and development of action plan for augmentation of sustainable livelihood based initiatives
Assessment of Child labour reduction and livelihood enhancement programmes for CASA, Tamil Nadu, ultimately culminating in    developing a time bound action plan for long-term livelihood promotion
Livelihood vulnerability assessment study of select occupational groups in Tsunami affected areas of Tamil Nadu and Kerala,    financed by Oxfam GB
Evaluation of Community Based Natural Resource Management projects supported by KKS and EC and managed by CEVA in India
Integrated Watershed Management Project for equitable, productive and sustainable village eco system development, funded by    KKS and EC and managed by KKID in India
Evaluation of People’s Development Project for Livelihood Promotion, PANI, Faizabad, UP