Livelihood
Skills training, savings groups, and cash assistance for youth, women, and returnee households.
LHI identifies, selects, trains, and supports women, youth, and people with special needs so they can build sustainable livelihoods and participate meaningfully in community life.
Vocational & Technical Skills Training: demand-driven market skills for youths, female-headed households, and vulnerable returnees.
Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA): community-led micro-savings groups, financial inclusion, and peer loan guarantees.
Multipurpose Cash Assistance (MPCA): unconditional and conditional cash transfers supporting basic household needs and small-business seed funding.
- Focus areas
- 3
- States active
- 11
- Established
- 2004
Active Projects in Livelihood
These field-level interventions are currently or previously implemented under our Livelihood thematic portfolio across Nigeria:
ActiveResilience Building and Smallholder Farmers Support Project in Northwest Nigeria
A multidimensional approach to the interconnected challenges facing smallholder farmers: farmer-led irrigation development (FLID), access to farming inputs and market systems, community-managed assets and non-farm income streams, with a phased exit strategy that leaves community-owned systems behind. Two farmers service hubs, Noma Tushen Arziki in Wamakko and Gidan Arziki in Batagarawa (commissioned 27 April 2026), now run as community enterprise centres.
ActiveLean Season Food Assistance in Goronyo and Rabah LGAs of Sokoto State
Improves food security and protects vulnerable households during the annual lean season, reducing the impact of seasonal food shortages, preventing negative coping mechanisms and supporting the nutrition and resilience of women, children and other at-risk community members.
CompletedPromoting CSO-led Peacebuilding Initiatives in the Lake Chad Basin Sub-region
A consortium-led project deploying location-specific interventions across peacebuilding, livelihood development, protection, agriculture-based support and institution building for marginalized populations.
ActiveMulti-Sectoral Integrated Resilience Programme (MIRP) in Zamfara State
A family-resilience programme for children and caregivers affected by insecurity and displacement: positive parenting, adolescent life skills, Child-Friendly Spaces, dialogue with traditional leaders on GBV and child protection, birth registration and Community-Based Child Protection Committees, and dignity kits with outreach to persons with disabilities.
ActiveLivelihood and Peacebuilding Project: Durable Solution Yobe
As a consortium partner, LHI supports the rebuilding of individual, household and community economic growth through livestock and agricultural support and value-chain additions, aligned with the Yobe State Government Economic Development Plan on Durable Solutions.
ActiveEnRICH / Mobilizing Nigeria Community Frontline Health Workers Project
Trains, mentors and supports frontline health workers to improve healthcare quality and outcomes, while strengthening community health systems through participation, access to essential services, referral and linkages.
CompletedLeading the Global Agenda to End Child Marriage by 2030 in Zamfara State
A pivotal grant to transform the lives of vulnerable adolescent girls through stakeholder engagement and advocacy for policy change, removing barriers and vulnerabilities through technical and vocational skill empowerment.
CompletedDeveloping Resilience for Vulnerable Households
Platforms supporting people affected by conflict to develop their livelihoods, grow their assets and build resilience to future shocks.
CompletedIncreasing Resiliency among Crisis-Affected Population in Borno
Basic livelihood development that contributed to the health and education of crisis-affected households' children.
CompletedGroup Savings and Loan Associations (GSLA): Small Steps, Big Impact
Community savings groups that help women and men save weekly, borrow for small businesses and build a social fund. Members receive a five-day training and orientation, keep savings in a three-lock box held by different keyholders, and receive their share-out at the end of each cycle.
CompletedTraining of Women on Goat Rearing and Micro-Processing of Legumes and Cereals
A two-way combination of nutrition and livelihood approaches: nutrition education and food demonstrations promoting dietary diversity, with training on goat rearing and processing of legumes and cereals.
CompletedStrengthening Systems for the Protection of Vulnerable People: Protection and Livelihood
Advocated for policies that promote women's participation in decision-making, built the capacity of government officials, ensured survivors were well served and set up livelihoods for vulnerable households.
CompletedSupporting the Development of Resilience Mechanisms for Conflict-Affected Populations: Livelihood
Increased the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises through layered livelihood support and access to credit for individuals, households and groups.
CompletedSupporting the Livelihood of Women and Youth in Gwoza
Supported women and youths to develop income-generating channels through vocational and technical skills and business and financial education using the ILO Start and Improve Your Business and Enterprise Your Business curricula.
CompletedBasic Access to Education in GEP 2 & EAC
Improved equitable access, learning outcomes and completion of quality education, built the capacity of education providers and strengthened government and community systems.
— In pictures
Livelihood in the field
