The ASLF's mission is to maximize the pro-poor impacts of tourism enterprises based on community-owned assets. We emphasize a rights-based approach to build community ownership of natural resources and to improve the livelihoods of rural households through the creation of sustainable businesses that increase the flow of tangible benefits into poor households via ownership, wages, supply contracts, equity agreements and local institutions that encourage fair and equitable distribution of such benefits. The ASLF works mainly in South Africa, Namibia and Mozambique, and participates in various African and global networks to implement a development program designed to enhance the positive contribution of safari lodges and other forms of tourism to rural livelihoods.