The United States Agency for International Development provided one million dollars for the Water and Livelihoods Initiative.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

As a means to enable quick transactions and improve livelihoods and fuel economic development, mobile money will go a long way in providing financial services to the unbanked population and empower the individual to store and manage their funds.

FORBES: Mobile money trickles into the developing nations

It combines natural and social sciences, economics and education to improve human livelihoods and safeguard natural ecosystems, thus promoting innovative approaches to economic development that is socially and culturally appropriate and environmentally sustainable.

UNESCO: Indigenous Peoples