{"id":115930,"date":"2021-05-10T13:28:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T10:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/?page_id=115930"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:46:57","slug":"right-livelihood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/en\/work\/right-livelihood\/","title":{"rendered":"Right to Livelihood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class=\"block-hero full-width id-block\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/toimeentulo_uganda_2020.jpg');\">\n\n\t<div class=\"bg-mobile\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/toimeentulo_uganda_2020-1024x441.jpg');\"><\/div>\n\n\t\n\t<div class=\"curtain\"><\/div>\n\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"inner-blocks entry-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<h2 class=\"is-style-brush\" ><span class=\"bg\">\nRight to <span class=\"is-highlighted\">Livelihood<\/span>\n<\/span><\/h2><h2 class=\"is-style-brush mobile\" ><span class=\"bg\">Right<\/span><span class=\"bg\">to<\/span><span class=\"is-highlighted\"><span class=\"bg\">Livelihood<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"subpage-navigation id-block full-width\">\n    <div class=\"container-lg\">\n        <div class=\"row\">\n            <div class=\"col\">\n                <ul class=\"pages\">\n                                        <li class=\"page ancestor\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/en\/work\/\">What we do<\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n                    \n                                        <li class=\"page\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/en\/work\/advocacy-work\/\">Advocacy<\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n                                        <li class=\"page\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/en\/work\/gender\/\">Gender<\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n                                        <li class=\"page\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/en\/work\/humanitarian-assistance\/\">Humanitarian Assistance<\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n                                        <li class=\"page\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/en\/work\/education\/\">Right to Education<\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n                                        <li class=\"page current\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/en\/work\/right-livelihood\/\">Right to Livelihood<\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n                                        <li class=\"page\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/en\/work\/right-to-peace\/\">Right to Peace<\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n                                        <li class=\"page\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/en\/work\/sustainable-development-goals\/\">Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>\n                    <\/li>\n                                    <\/ul>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Everyone has&nbsp;the right to provide for themselves and their families, increase their well-being, and participate in&nbsp;developing&nbsp;the social, economic, and political situation of their societies as equal citizens.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By working for the Right to Livelihood, we want to ensure that everyone can live a dignified life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our objective is to reduce poverty by promoting&nbsp;inclusive,&nbsp;sustainable economic development, particularly through the employment of women, youth and refugees. We create new livelihood opportunities through entrepreneurship training, Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET)&nbsp;and&nbsp;saving groups&nbsp;and business cooperatives&nbsp;for women. We&nbsp;focus&nbsp;on both rural and urban areas in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&nbsp;work for&nbsp;food&nbsp;security, particularly by supporting&nbsp;sustainable&nbsp;smallholder agriculture&nbsp;that enables&nbsp;families to fulfil their own needs and deliver their surplus to the market&nbsp;in exchange for a decent income.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In developing countries, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) generate most of the jobs, which is why our projects support the private sector in all our programme countries, including the most fragile states.&nbsp;Investments&nbsp;in sustainable SMEs boost the long-term objective of generating economic growth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FCA also provides life-saving assistance for rapid livelihoods recovery in emergencies, for instance,&nbsp;through cash transfers that support refugees, internally&nbsp;displaced&nbsp;people and returnees in rebuilding their lives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"956\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Livelihood-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-116791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Livelihood-2.png 956w, https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Livelihood-2-480x246.png 480w, https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Livelihood-2-768x394.png 768w, https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Livelihood-2-316x162.png 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 956px) 100vw, 956px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Linking Learning to Earning<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>FCA\u2019s Linking Learning to Earning (LL2E) approach enables youth and young adults to become economically self-reliant and contribute positively to social cohesion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We offer paths from vocational education to gainful employment and entrepreneurship to both young women and men. We work in close collaboration with training providers, policy-makers and employers to ensure educational quality and market relevance of&nbsp;the&nbsp;skills acquired.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Career guidance and counselling, on-the-job placements, job-seeking support and business start-up support form the core of the service portfolio designed to smoothen the transition from education to working life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Learning-to-Earning-2-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-116794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Learning-to-Earning-2-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Learning-to-Earning-2-480x271.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Learning-to-Earning-2-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Learning-to-Earning-2-1536x866.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Learning-to-Earning-2-2048x1154.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Learning-to-Earning-2-316x178.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Creating enterprises and employment for decent living<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We engage in entrepreneurship and employment creation to promote equality of opportunity and decent work for women and youth. We&nbsp;specialise&nbsp;in women\u2019s entrepreneurship and&nbsp;promote&nbsp;income opportunities for refugees in rural and urban environments.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We offer business and technical skills and access to a wide range of essential business development services to entrepreneurial individuals, producer groups and cooperatives. Financing, market and value chain development, and networking with private and public sector actors are part of our programming.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Promoting sustainable economic development<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We work to strengthen the motivation and capacity of different level duty-bearers to promote inclusive livelihood-related government services, policies and&nbsp;programmes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We engage in advocacy and campaigns for inclusive access to livelihood assets and services.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where governments are unable to provide for the basic needs during a crisis, we help to ensure that disaster-affected people have access to essential life-saving assistance.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Womens_Bank_EN_RGB-3-1024x357.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-117158\" style=\"width:274px;height:95px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Womens_Bank_EN_RGB-3-1024x357.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Womens_Bank_EN_RGB-3-480x167.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Womens_Bank_EN_RGB-3-768x268.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Womens_Bank_EN_RGB-3-1536x535.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Womens_Bank_EN_RGB-3-2048x714.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Womens_Bank_EN_RGB-3-316x110.jpeg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>The FCA affiliated Women\u2019s Bank<\/strong>&nbsp;provides us with a unique pool of expertise over a wide variety of business-related fields for women\u2019s economic empowerment and entrepreneurship. Women\u2019s Bank is a charity fund and a volunteer network supporting women\u2019s entrepreneurship and income generation in developing countries. FCA administers the Women\u2019s Bank fund and implements the work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"454\" height=\"114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/FCA-Investments-logo-header-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-117161\" style=\"width:258px;height:65px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/FCA-Investments-logo-header-1.png 454w, https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/FCA-Investments-logo-header-1-316x79.png 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>FCA Investments (FCAI),&nbsp;<\/strong>100% subsidiary of FCA, is an impact&nbsp;investor&nbsp;specialising&nbsp;in developing countries and fragile states. FCAI has strengthened the&nbsp;Small and&nbsp;Medium-sized&nbsp;Enterprise&nbsp;dimension in FCA\u2019s work. We&nbsp;actively seek synergies between impact investing and more traditional livelihoods programming, specifically in the areas of value-chain development and employment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"block-image-beside-content full-width id-block has-bg\">\n    <div class=\"container-lg\">\n        <div class=\"row\">\n            <div class=\"col col-12 col-lg-6\">\n                <div class=\"align-image\">\n                                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image\" alt=\"Brochure cover page.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pub_cover_R2L-1024x576.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pub_cover_R2L-480x270.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Pub_cover_R2L-1024x576.jpg 991w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 991px) 150px\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\">\n                                    <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"col col-12 col-lg-6\">\n                <div class=\"align-content\">\n                    <div class=\"inner-blocks entry-content\">\n                        \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Right to Livelihood Brochure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-solid\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkonulkomaanapu.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/RighttoLivelihood_brochure_accessible.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Right to Livelihood (PDF)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has&nbsp;the right to provide for themselves and their families, increase their well-being, and participate in&nbsp;developing&nbsp;the social, economic, and political situation of their societies as equal citizens.&nbsp;&nbsp; By working for the Right to Livelihood, we want to ensure that everyone can live a dignified life.&nbsp; Our objective is to reduce poverty by promoting&nbsp;inclusive,&nbsp;sustainable economic development, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":106921,"parent":116053,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"110039,115774,78904,114990,108682,86807","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_improvement_type_select":"improve_an_existing","_thumb_yes_seoaic":false,"_frame_yes_seoaic":false,"seoaic_generate_description":"","seoaic_improve_instructions_prompt":"","seoaic_rollback_content_improvement":"","seoaic_idea_thumbnail_generator":"","thumbnail_generated":false,"thumbnail_generate_prompt":"","seoaic_article_description":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-115930","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Right to Livelihood - Development Cooperation - Finn Church Aid<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Right to livelihood is one of our three strategic themes. 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