The document outlines various factors contributing to disadvantage, including poverty, lack of assets, health challenges, and marginalization. It highlights specific issues such as inadequate housing, limited income sources, and geographical vulnerabilities. Additionally, it discusses the impact of social capital and individual circumstances on the ability to overcome these challenges.
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Clusters of Disadvantage
The document outlines various factors contributing to disadvantage, including poverty, lack of assets, health challenges, and marginalization. It highlights specific issues such as inadequate housing, limited income sources, and geographical vulnerabilities. Additionally, it discusses the impact of social capital and individual circumstances on the ability to overcome these challenges.
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Poverty and lack of physical or economic Physical or mental health related
related assets challenge
Limited social capital and challenges from
Marginalisation, discrimination and beliefs, practices, skills, knowledge and powerlessness attitudes
Geographical challenges and
vulnerabilities to risk Factors affecting disadvantage: Factors affecting disadvantage: ● Small house or rent. Little or no land. • Adults unable to work due to illness or disability ● Few or no livestock. Limited or no savings. (physical or mental health related). ● All family members work including children unless • Migration of active adults (leaving less they are too young, old or sick. physically able family members). ● Work is based on low paid daily labour. • Adults unable to physically construct a ● Majority of income from social security (disability or senior citizens allowance). latrine. ● Difficulty to make a living adequate to support • People needing accessibility features or with family. specific sanitation and hygiene needs.
Poverty and lack of physical or economic Physical or mental health related
related assets challenge
Limited social capital and challenges from
Marginalisation, discrimination and beliefs, practices, skills, knowledge and powerlessness attitudes
● Weak negotiating position, ignorant Geographical challenges and ● People affected by beliefs and of the law, difficult to obtain vulnerabilities to risk practices. employment. ● Individual factors affecting power ● Limited skills and knowledge or within household and society such problematic attitudes. as gender, age, disability. Factors affecting disadvantage: ● Limited social resources: limited ● Discriminated against, marginalised ● Remote community, may lack access to markets or information. or no networks, connections. or minority individual or group. ● High water table, rocky soils, sandy soils. ● People who need to be cared for or ● Lack of access to natural resources such as timber through under the control of others. deforestation or arid / semi-arid conditions. ● People living in low income high density or informal settlements. ● Affected by conflict or natural disasters. ● Internally displaced or refugees. ● Unforeseen circumstances for household such as crop failure, accident, sickness, funeral.
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