End of poverty - National Rural Livelihoods Mission (N.R.L.M) T. Vijay Kumar JS, Ministry of Rural Development Govt of India [email protected].

End of poverty - National Rural Livelihoods Mission (N.R.L.M)

T. Vijay KumarJS, Ministry of Rural Development Govt of [email protected]

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF N.R.L.M

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

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

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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

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

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.

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.

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

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KEY FEATURES OF N.R.L.M: CONVERGENCE AND PARTNERSHIPS

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

VISION : END OF POVERTY