Cell phones, she understood, had serious untapped potential they could provide access to a marketplace, infrastructure for payments and a means to transform livelihoods, especially for women.
It has long been recognised that rural communities in Zimbabwe have a 'portfolio of assets' that help them deal with hardship and transform livelihoods.
Transforming Rural Livelihoods in Africa: How can land and water management contribute to enhanced food security and address climate change adaptation and mitigation?
Overall, the paper demonstrates that the project contributes to transforming local livelihoods and institutions, unfortunately not always as originally designed.
At a household-level, although this may not be particular to community-led cash transfer programmes, some guardians spoke of how the programme had enabled them to set up small-scale income generating activities, transforming their livelihoods by strengthening household assets.
It has transformed the livelihoods of 90,000 subsistence farmers across five African countries.
A "poverty graduation" scheme in Bangladesh that has already transformed the livelihoods of 1.7m of the poorest households is being analysed as a model for aid programmes to alleviate extreme poverty in the long term.
Memorable moment: Understanding the environmental pressures on coffee farmers and how a little technical assistance can transform their livelihoods is something I'll now recall and appreciate with every cup of java I drink.
The Rainforest Alliance is a non-governmental organisation that aims to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behaviour.
Rainforest Alliance Certification – The Rainforest Alliance works to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior.
Over the past 10 years they have built more than 200 "check dams", transforming the lives and livelihoods of more than 115 villages, and affecting another 193.
