This concept connects the ideas of capability, equity, participation and gender sensitivity. A livelihood is a means of making a living. it includes food, jobs, income, tangible assets, entitlements to common property, and social networks of support. A livelihood which can cope with and recover from stress and shock is sustainable. A livelihood is sustainable when it maintains or enhances local or global assets on which life depends and renews or stores them for future generations. Sustainable development applies at the macro policy level while sustainable livelihoods applies to the conditions of persons living in poverty who manage their survival without awaiting external intervention. Sustainable livelihoods are intense, complex, diverse, often migratory, fraught with uncertainty but always a testimony of human capability and equity. It allows those who are deprived to have better opportunities and to share resources without discrimination.