This report presents the findings of a three-year study into
the links between protection and livelihoods in situations of
conflict. Many agencies now adopt protection and livelihoods
approaches as part of their humanitarian programmes in
conflict, yet in most cases interventions are implemented
separately or in parallel. At the same time, at the most basic
level of analysis it appears obvious that protection and
livelihoods must be linked; risks to livelihoods are often a
consequence of violence and human rights abuse, and a loss
of livelihoods inevitably makes people more vulnerable to the
threats in their environment.
