National Rural Livelihoods Mission: framework for implementation
The basic purpose of National Rural Livelihoods Mission is to put in place a dedicated and sensitive support structure from the national level to the sub-district level which will focus on the poor, build and sustain their organizations at different levels. This will provide the poor a platform for collective action based on self help and mutual cooperation and they become a strong demand system, build linkages with mainstream institutions, including banks, and Government epartments to address the various dimensions of poverty. The process of development is thus led by the poor and the interventions are locally relevant and suit the specific needs and contexts of poverty in which they live. These institutions would focus on ensuring timely and sustainable access to savings and credit services to meet their priority needs, both for social needs and livelihoods purposes and graduate them out of poverty.