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Livelihoods and Reducing Poverty
HTSPE has more than 50 years’ experience of working with governments and communities in developing countries to reduce the number of people living in poverty and to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
We’ve worked in towns as well as rural areas and our unique experience has shown us that although development, urbanisation and globalisation can offer an escape from poverty, it’s not always so.
With HTSPE’s expertise in governance and institutional change, we ensure that public services operate to the benefit of those in need, even at the lowest levels of government.
Providing advice:
In today’s changing world, the vulnerable need adequate social security structures and rural workers need more skills than before. We at HTSPE have a wealth of indispensable experience to bring to projects.
HTSPE takes pride in making the most up-to-date and appropriate advice – from micro-finance to rural democracy - accessible to the poorest and most excluded groups in society:
Rural farmers: In the Himalayas, our teams work with small-scale seed producers in Nepal and with remote communities in northern Pakistan. In Vietnam, it is with the rice farmers of Central Region and in Ecuador the hill farmers of the Rio Paute.
Social support: In the transition countries of eastern Europe, such as Lithuania, HTSPE teams are working with national ministries of social security to reform the pension and benefits systems. In poorer countries, we work with community development and social investment programmes to bolster existing forms of social support.
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