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Empowering Rural Livelihoods through ICT: A Sustainable Approach

Explore the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) and how ICT can enhance rural livelihoods. Learn about mapping ICT to assets, implications for program design, and priority topic areas for sustainable impact.

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Empowering Rural Livelihoods through ICT: A Sustainable Approach

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  1. ICT and Rural Livelihoods Paul Matthews Overseas Development Institute infoDev / ARD Workshop, Washington D.C. 5 June 2007

  2. The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) • ICT and the livelihoods framework • Updating our knowledge

  3. The livelihoods approach • Livelihoods • the ways people realise goals for themselves, family and friends • income generation opportunities, access to social networks, natural resources, public infrastructure human resources (skills, good health, confidence), input into policies

  4. Key features of SLA • People-centred, focus on existing strengths • Responsive and participatory • Poverty as a multi-dimensional, multi-level problem • Implemented through partnerships • Holistic, cross-sectoral and dynamic • Balanced economic, institutional, social and environmental sustainability

  5. ICT and the livelihoods framework • ICT • Information technology (Computing) • Broadcast technology (TV & Radio) • Telecommunications and networking (Mobile & fixed)

  6. ICT and the livelihoods framework

  7. Mapping ICT to livelihood assets 1

  8. Mapping ICT to livelihood assets 2

  9. A livelihoods approach to ICT (FAO/DFID/ODI, 2003) • Use realistic technologies • Build on existing systems • Use local content • Encourage equitable access • Build capacity (local institutions) • Encourage knowledge partnerships • Share costs

  10. Implications for programme design • Participatory needs assessment, system design and indicator negotiation • Multi-stakeholder, cross-sectoral consultation • Iterative implementation and evaluation • Putting the I & C before the T • Flexibility and “mix and match” in technology prescriptions

  11. Source: ActionAid / Reflect - ICT

  12. Updating our knowledge infoDev-sponsored project January – June 2007 • Literature review • 6 Country studies • Donor review • Knowledge map & framework paper • Consultation • Recommendations

  13. Priority topic areas • Enabling environment • Evaluation • Partnerships • Sustainability • Scalability • Appropriate technologies and local innovation

  14. Outputs & ongoing consultation http://www.ict4rl.info http://www.livelihoods.org p.matthews@odi.org.uk

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