The Livelihood Sovereignty Alliance 2013 - 2025 between SPERI, CODE, CIRUM and CENDI in one direction, sharing their methods and maximizing their efforts and achievements, with the three pillars of 1) Eco-Farming Education, 2) Livelihood Sovereignty and 3) Nurturing Nature interacting to nourish the Civil Society River flowing in order to balance and fertilize its two sides government and business.
 
The Alliance uses the term ‘livelihood’ with respect the goal of indigenous and ethnic minority peoples in the Mekong region of achieving “Livelihood Sovereignty”. Following the aspirations of the indigenous and ethnic minority peoples, SPERI has defined Livelihood Sovereignty as the achievements of five livelihood rights: 1) The right to land, forest and water (basic); 2) The right to maintain one’s own religion (unique); 3) The right to live according to one’s own culture (practice); 4) The right to operate according one’s own knowledge and decide what to plant, initiate, create and invent on one’s own land (holistic), and 5) The right to co-manage or co-govern natural resources with neighboring communities and local authorities (strategic).
 
In order to better empower Traditional Civil Society for Livelihood Sovereignty, TEW-CHESH-CIRD merged into SPERI in 2005. SPERI focused on the six inter-related MECO-ECOTRA themes (see MECO-ECOTRA) and on strengthening Traditional Civil Society via the Young Indigenous Ethnic Leadership Development Strategy via Ecological Farming Education at Farmer Field Schools. At the same time, one team of seniors from TEW and CIRD initiated a separate independent organization named CIRUM to concentrate on Forest and Land Rights for vulnerable groups, and on networking for self-sufficiency development. Later, in 2007, the Lobby Department of SPERI formed an independent Consultancy on Development (CODE) to focus on bridging and strengthening Public-Private-Civil Society relations for lobbying policy on Mining, Hydropower and Extractive Industries.

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