Livelihoods
Track income, savings, and market access, and prove what changes lives.
The Challenge
Livelihoods programs must prove real economic outcomes, but inconsistent data hides what is actually working.
Reaching remote participants
Households are scattered far from offices and connectivity.
Onboarding frontline staff fast
High field turnover means constant training of new workers.
Coordinating many local partners
Implementing groups each work in their own way.
CommCare for Livelihoods Programs
Enroll participants and capture baseline economic data
- Record household income band and current livelihood
- Capture savings and financial inclusion status
- Lock a baseline that anchors every outcome you track
Deliver training and track skills as they grow
- Run financial literacy and business sessions from a checklist
- Mark attendance and completed modules per participant
- Log skills gained straight into the certification record
Open access to finance and markets
- Match participants to banks, savings groups, and buyers
- Track each referral from request through to active
- See loans, off-take deals, and mobile money in one view
Prove income gains across every cohort
- Watch income change, finance, and market access on one dashboard
- Break results down by cohort and livelihood type
- Push straight to donor-ready impact reports
Want to see how this would work for your livelihoods program?
Talk to our teamLivelihoods programs built on CommCare
From UN financial inclusion platforms to energy enterprise programs, here’s what organizations have shipped on the platform.
Five Talents: 20 years of CommCare-powered savings groups, 144,000+ participants
For 20 years, Five Talents has used CommCare to deliver savings group programs across East Africa, reaching 144,000+ participants, 78% of them women.
Naatal Mbay: farm finance and extension for 68,000 smallholders in Senegal
CommAgri, built on CommCare, helped 500 extension agents and 55 cooperatives register 68,000 farmers, manage loans, and track productivity in Senegal.
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How CommCare supports cash transfer programs around the world
How CommCare helps organizations deliver cash efficiently and accountably, from enrollment and eligibility to payment tracking and follow-up.
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TechnoServe: Building a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) tools suite across Africa and Latin America
A reusable CommCare M&E suite reaching nearly half a million beneficiaries across agriculture and livelihoods programs, cutting setup from six months to three.
Read the case studyTraining to lasting resilience, across every use case.
Use the power of CommCare to run livelihoods programs end to end, across every use case.
One platform, every workflow.
From service delivery and monitoring to research and engagement, the same platform adapts to whatever your livelihoods program needs. Pick a use case to see how it tunes.
- No-code workflows for frontline teams
- Offline-first, multi-language, multi-country
- Real-time dashboards and donor-ready reporting