the goal of livelihood development is to increase access to and/or protection of financial ,social ,nature ,physical and human livelihood assets. the assets are relational and often developing one means development of other . it is also necessary to look beyond the categories into the structure,processes and strategies that transform the assets into livelihood outcomes. the purpose of the section below is to identify what assets the people you are working with have currently and how they are using them(or not using them) to achieve their desired livelihood outcomes.