Livelihoods and enterprise development

Empower is building a digital solution to incentivise the collection of plastic waste and to track it throughout the supply chain.

Sustainable Growers works to improve the livelihood of women farmers and their families by promoting local coffee consumption and barista training in Rwanda.

The Mountain Partnership initiative builds local community resilience, increases access to markets and develops narrative labels that tell the product story and its role in local cultures, improving livelihoods of mountain communities and strengthening value chains.

Esoko's platform delivers rich localised agricultural content and market information to farmers via mobile phones and supports the digitisation of agricultural value chains and rural supply chains.

UN Women provides sustainable, independent income and employment to returnee female migrant workers by training them to become licensed electronic rickshaw drivers and equipping them with entrepreneurship skills to run their own businesses.

Barefoot College's 'Digital Solar Night Schools' project bring quality digital education to underprivileged children in remote off-grid communities who can't attend school during the day due to family responsibilities, such as farming. Many of the children have either continued into state-run secondary education or taken jobs in the local community.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) provides sustainable livelihood alternatives to help people in coastal fishing communities rise out of poverty, while protecting natural resources including mangrove forests, seagrass beds and coral reefs.

Hola Code's 5-month immersive software engineering bootcamp is unlocking opportunities and creating empowerment for forced migrants (returnees, deportees and refugees) in Mexico.

The CECAQ-11 Co-operative produce cocoa for Divine's Organic chocolate range, providing farmers with a regular buyer and Fairtrade funds for community improvements.