1) Security and Peace of mind

Physical and emotional insecurity, lack of safety net, lack of resources and opportunities. Not knowing where to find information, money, food and jobs.

2) Gender Relations

Unequal opportunities for women within training programs, discrimination in job opportunities.

3) Institutions

Lack of integration of communities, minimum integration of Government at all levels, lack of synergy amongst various stakeholders, lack of an empowered leadership.

4) Social Relations

Discrimination, rejection within society, deprivation within education system and isolation.

5) Capabilities

Lack of information, education, skills, human capacity, self-esteem, confidence and inability to take responsibility.

6) Vulnerability

Risk of health, under-nutrition, death, youth, aged, and dependency ratio on elderly, substance abuse.

7) Spatial

Spatial distribution and inequality, lack of access, distance to service delivery and jobs.

8) Physical

Hunger, exhaustion, under-performance.

9) Income and Assets

Income insecurity, seasonal inadequacies, lack of access to resources.

10) cultural

Cultural oprression, harrasment of indigenious cultures, destruction of indigenious knowledge and folkore, culturala and herbal piracy by foreign companies and lackof acceptance for other traditions and religious view (Obiora Ike:27)