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animal health interventions, the provision of seeds, etc. 61 . These efforts will make it possible to address an
initial phase but are insufficient to respond to the income needs of the vulnerable population during the
months needed for new planting activities or the medium-term recovery process.
Efforts to recover the livelihoods of the vulnerable population must be aimed at offering rapid responses
for income improvement, either in a temporary or definitive manner; these responses must avoid
greater socioeconomic impacts stemming from the deterioration of current conditions. A possible linking
of social effects unique to the current stage may lead families to migrate from the affected zones to the
cities, and to an increase in the dynamic of urban marginality and in the reconstruction of new risks.
Some of the key aspects to be taken into account for the recovery of affected families’ livelihoods,
especially in small agricultural production units, are conditioned by factors such as seasonal climate which,
in the best of cases, will only allow one bean crop to be planted in May and harvested in July 2009.
Most of the people affected by the emergencies in the different zones of the country carried out
subsistence-level agricultural and livestock activities, with only small margins of surplus for sale; there
were high levels of malnutrition and low levels of human development. The process of recovering livelihoods
will need development processes that “transform while repairing,” aimed at generating a model
that improves and diversifies the economic activities of the affected populations and allows a transition
from subsistence economies to market economies. Likewise, it is ideal to seek a transition from individual
models of rural employment to associative production organizations, for which there must be technical
assistance and social monitoring, the provision of inputs and the development of financial support and
risk-transfer mechanisms.
1) Objectives
General objective
To offer temporary alternatives for income recovery to vulnerable families and facilitate the transition to
the ongoing improvement of income.
‣ Specific objectives
• To offer temporary employment and income alternatives to the vulnerable population
affected by the disasters.
• To replenish the vulnerable population’s productive assets and facilities for production
and marketing, with emphasis on women, especially female heads of households.
• To guide, promote and control the conduction of agricultural and livestock activities in
accordance with considerations of risk and productive potential.
• To facilitate the recovery of permanent non-agricultural activities.
2) Programs
• Program to restore small-scale productive assets and improve skills for production and
commerce.
• Planning of agricultural and livestock activities in departments affected by Hurricane Ida.
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Flash Appeal, El Salvador, November 2009.