Livelihoods - Livelihood generation for disadvantaged youth in the context of poverty

Cora Burnett and Engela van der Klashorst

Chapter 10 in Handbook of Sport and International Development, 2023, pp 122-137 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The chapter articulates an emerging debate on livelihood issues relating to socio-economically vulnerable youth as workforce for local Sport for Development (SFD) agencies in sub-Saharan Africa. The concept of livelihood, underpinned by Scoones’ (1998; 2009) Sustainable Rural Livelihoods framework, conceptualises ‘youth work’ as a phenomenon underpinned by a multiple-capital, asset-based model, relevant to the value-proposition of youth leaders in the SFD sector. Guided by United Nations policy frameworks and donor foci on optimal service delivery by NGOs as implementing agencies, the plight for employment by youth as workforce, remains largely unrecognised. Against this background, persisting challenges and good practices regarding employability and employment pathways for contracted (mostly unemployed) youth are discussed. Insights contribute to the questioning and ethical conduct associated with unequal power-relations between donors (in the Global North) and implementing agencies (in the Global South) and the lack of stakeholder collaboration in driving an agenda of human justice and establishing evidence-based SDP-for-livelihood initiatives.

Keywords: Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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