Deendayal Upadhyaya National Rural Livelihood Mission (DAY-NRLM)

To reduce poverty by enabling the poor households to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities, resulting in appreciable improvement in their livelihoods on a sustainable basis, through building strong grassroots institutions of the poor.

• Social Inclusion and institutions of the Poor.

1. Universal Social Mobilization
2. Promotion of Institutions of the poor
3. Training, Capacity building and skill building
4. Revolving Fund and Capacity Subsidy
5. Provision of Interest Subsidy

• Livelihoods

1. Infrastructure creation and Marketing support
2. Skills and Placement Projects
3. Rural Self Employment Training Institutes(RSETIs)
4. Innovations

• Convergence and Partnership

1. Convergence
2. Partnerships with NGO and other CSOs
3. Linkages with PRIs

• Sensitive Support

1. External Sensitive Support Structures
2. Technical Support
3. Monitoring and Learning
4. Funding Pattern
5. Phased Implementation
6. Transition to NRLM
7. Agenda before NRLM

• 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.