Who is Vulnerable?
Victims of conflict
- internally displaced people
- refugees
- landless returnees
- landmine disabled
- war invalids
- war widows and orphans
Migrant workers and their
families
- migrant herders tending other people's herds
- migrant labourers seeking seasonal work
- female-headed households left behind by migrant male labourers
Marginal populations in urban
areas
- school dropouts
- unemployed people
- rickshaw and motorcycle taxi drivers
- recently arrived migrants
- people living in slums on city outskirts
- dockworkers and porters and construction workers
- workers in the informal sector
- homeless people
- orphans
- street children and people living alone on small fixed
incomes or without support (elderly, pensioners, widows
- and widowers, divorcees, invalids, handicapped
people)
- beggars
People belonging to at-risk
social groups
- indigenous people
- ethnic minorities
- illiterate households
Some or all members of low-incomehouseholds within vulnerable livelihood systems
- subsistence or small-scale farmers
- female-headed farming households
- landless peasants
- agricultural labourers
- fishers
- nomadic pastoralists
- sedentary herders, small-scale livestock producers
and agropastoralists
- forest dwellers
- peri-urban small-scale agricultural producers and
market gardeners
- day or contract labourers
Dependent people living alone or in low-income households with large family size
- elderly people
- women of childbearing age, especially pregnant and
nursing mothers
- children under five years old, especially infants
- disabled and ill people
