ICTs for Livelihoods Research
Why ICTs for Livelihoods? Agriculture remains the predominant rural livelihood in the Asia-Pacific region. Although rural livelihoods are not exclusive to agriculture-based activities, they comprise the lion’s share of rural livelihoods in the Asia-Pacific region. Information and communication play an important role in agricultural production and rural livelihood resilience. As regions become more connected and at once exposed to the vulnerabilities of globalisation, what role can information and communication tools play in strengthening livelihood outcomes for the rural poor? Despite increasing anecdotal evidence of ICTs improving livelihoods in developing countries, this unfortunately has not translated into a proportionate body of evidence-based research to support such claims. ENRAP’s ICT for livelihoods research component seeks to build this evidence through supporting a number of evaluation and action research studies in this area and analysing the findings using a robust research framework. Through the ICTs for Rural Livelihoods Research initiative of ENRAP, it is hoped that the outcomes of this research can be shared and made accessible to enhance livelihoods. Thereby, providing opportunities for replication and up-scaling of practices and approaches, particularly in the context of IFAD projects and partners, for rural development.
Scoping Study - ICT and Rural Livelihoods
ENRAP supported two scoping studies for ICT and Rural livelihoods in South East Asia and Pacific focus and South Asia focus countries. This folder includes information related to these including the full documents.
Call for Concept papers
This folder has all information related to the call for concept papers under the ICT4RL research
Selected Proposals: ICT for Rural Livelihoods Research
The main objective of the ICT for livelihoods Research is to build research evidence on how ICT interventions impact the livelihood outcomes of rural communities in Asia.
ICTs for Livelihoods: Research Planning workshop, 22-24 July 09, Colombo
This workshop brings together all the selected researchers to strenghten their research proposals and provide networking opportunity
