Mission

NRLM aims to reduce rural poverty by enabling poor households to access gainful self-employment and skill-based wage employment. This is achieved through the creation and strengthening of robust grassroots institutions of the poor, leading to sustainable improvements in their livelihoods.

Key Features

• Social Inclusion: Focus on empowering the poorest and most vulnerable.
• Universal Social Mobilization: Bringing every poor household into the fold of SHGs (Self Help Groups).
• Institution Building: Promoting and nurturing institutions of the poor such as SHGs, VOs, and CLFs.
• Training & Capacity Building: Skill development to enable income generation.
• Financial Support:
  – Revolving Funds & Capital Subsidies
  – Interest Subvention on Loans
• Livelihood Promotion: Support for sustainable livelihood options.
• Infrastructure & Marketing Support: Facilities and market linkages to enhance productivity and income.
• Skill Development & Placement: Through projects and Rural Self Employment Training Institutes (RSETIs).
• Innovation & Best Practices
• Convergence & Partnerships:
  – Collaborations with NGOs, CSOs, and PRIs.
  – Linkages with government schemes and departments.
• Sensitive Support Structure: External technical and capacity-building assistance.
• Phased Implementation: Gradual rollout with focus on quality and impact.

Guiding Principles

• Poor have a strong desire to come out of poverty, and they have innate capabilities
• Social mobilization and building strong institutions of the poor is critical for unleashing the innate capabilities of the poor.
• An external dedicated and sensitive support structure is required to induce the social mobilization, institution building and empowerment process.
• Facilitating knowledge dissemination, skill building, access to credit, access to marketing, and access to other livelihoods services underpins this upward mobility.

NRLM Values

The core values which guide all the activities under NRLM are as follows:

• Inclusion of the poorest, and meaningful role to the poorest in all the processes
• Transparency and accountability of all processes and institutions.
• Ownership and key role of the poor and their institutions in all stages – planning, implementation, and, monitoring
• Community self-reliance and self-dependence

 

 

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Beneficiary:

Poor households in rural areas, especially women, seeking self-employment, skill-based wage opportunities, and livelihood enhancement support.

Benefits:

Access to financial assistance. Skill training and capacity-building programs. Support for self-employment and micro-enterprises. Market linkages and livelihood promotion.