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1 End of poverty - National Rural Livelihoods Mission (N.R.L.M) T. Vijay Kumar JS, Ministry of Rural Development Govt of India vjthallam@gmail.com

2 NRLM : GOAL - POVERTY ELIMINATION Poverty elimination through social mobilization, institution building, financial inclusion and a portfolio of sustainable livelihoods. VISION: Each poor family should have an annual income of at least Rs.50,000 per annum 2

3 NRLM  Task: to reach out to 7.0 crore rural poor households, and, stay engaged with them till they come out of abject poverty  Mission - to do this in a time bound manner

4 N.R.L.M - LESSONS FROM LARGE SCALE EXPERIENCE IN THE COUNTRY Even an ultra-poor family can come out of abject poverty in 6 - 8 years  Provided they are organised, nurtured, and, given continuous support by a dedicated support structure, both external and their own.  Provided they are enabled to access financial support in repeat doses, min. Rs.1.0 lakh per family 4

5 GUIDING PRINCIPLES  Organising the poor – a prerequisite to poverty eradication – a woman from each family  Inclusion of the poorest  Institutions of poor, greatest source of strength for the poor, S.H.Gs, federations, livelihoods collectives  Dedicated, professional, sensitive support structure 5

6  Poor to drive all project initiatives – key role of social capital: S.H.G and federation leaders, community professionals  Scaling through community best practitioners  Transparency and accountability  Community self reliance and self dependence 6 GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF N.R.L.M

7 BUILDING PRO-POOR FINANCIAL SECTOR Access to credit key to coming out of poverty. Out of Rs.100,000 per family required – around 90% has to come from financial institutions. Financial inclusion at affordable cost holds the key

8 LIVELIHOODS PROMOTION Four streams of livelihoods :  coping with vulnerabilities – debt bondage, food insecurity, migration, health shocks  existing livelihoods – stabilising, expanding them, and, making them sustainable  self employment - micro-enterprise development  skilled wage employment - opportunities in growing sectors of the economy 8

9 VULNERABILITY REDUCTION VULNERABILITY REDUCTION – the following issues will be tackled  Indebtedness – through debt swapping  Food insecurity – food security credit, grain banks  Health shocks – health risk fund

10 STRENGTHENING EXISTING LIVELIHOODS  Critical livelihoods are: agriculture, livestock, forestry and non-timber forest produce  Promote institutions around livelihoods  Promote end-to-end solutions, covering the entire value chain  Key – knowledge dissemination. Development of community professionals in a large number

11 SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND PLACEMENT  Up-scaling of Skill development through public-private partnerships – critical  Target: 1 crore youth in 7 years  Separate models for tribal areas, minority concentrated districts – education ( 9 months to 12 months residential ) + skills + placement  Community professionals –programmes for skilling local youth in agriculture, livestock, watersheds, N.T.F.P, etc.

12 SELF EMPLOYMENT AND MICRO ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT  Entrepreneurship development among local youth to generate in situ employment  Successful RUDSETI model will be replicated  Necessary changes in the model will be made – partnerships not only with banks but also private sector, N.G.Os, etc.

13  Convergence – institutions of poor provide a platform for convergence and optimisation of all anti-poverty programmes  Linkages with PRIs  Partnerships with N.G.Os and CSOs  Partnerships with industries, industry associations 13 KEY FEATURES OF N.R.L.M: CONVERGENCE AND PARTNERSHIPS

14 Dedicated sensitive support structures at all levels to trigger social mobilisation.  A national mission management unit  State wide sensitive support structure, full time dedicated head of the mission  Positioning multi-disciplinary team of trained and competent professionals at state, district and sub-district level  Quality human resources from open market and from Govt. 14 KEY FEATURES OF N.R.L.M: SENSITIVE SUPPORT

15 VISION : END OF POVERTY


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