This document provides a list of various types of social, human, natural, physical, and financial capital assets that contribute to livelihoods. It includes political, governance, and legal institutions, as well as community groups, traditional knowledge, natural resources like water, land, forests, livestock, and infrastructure like roads, markets, schools and health facilities.

1. Social
Human
Capital
• Political parties
• Local government
• Security institutions
• Policy framework
• Legal framework and Justice system
• National governance structure
• Customary law
• Land tenure
• Participation to local governance structure
• Information
• Elders
• Religious leaders
• Community committees /formal and informal
local governance mechanisms)
• Values, History, Hospitality
• Acceptance of Refugees and IDPs by Host
Communities
• Youth groups/ networks
• Family structures
• Diaspora ( Remittances & skills)
• Traditional Conflict resolution mechanisms
• Income through Formal employment
• Income through Self employment
• Income through Petty trade/ Business
• Income through Casual work
• Asset holding (livestock/ cultivated area)
• Additional production for sale
• Remittances ( direct or redistributed)
• Credit
• Markets
• Savings
• Social safety nets
• Tax revenues
• Remittances
• Education
• Protection
• Health
• Nutrition
• Health promotion and
hygiene
• Life skills
• Livelihood skills
• Traditional knowledge
• Household composition
• Sea
• Water sources, Dams, earth pan, shallow wells,
boreholes
• Rivers
• Rain
• Forest Flora and Fauna
• Biomass resources
• Coast / fish
• Land for agriculture/ livestock
• Livestock
• Oil/ minerals
• Biodiversity of the environment
• Telecommunication
• Shelter
• Commodities
• Food
• Health infrastructure
• Sanitation facilities/ latrines
• Transport
• Road
• Energy
• Market infrastructure
• Local private or public sector services
• Schools
Generic List of Livelihoods assets