NERLP description

The objective of the project is to improve rural livelihoods especially that of women, unemployed youth and the most disadvantaged, in four North Eastern States. It aims at improving communities’ access to credit and other financial services by forming 26,000 SHGs and 1,645 VOs, sustainably increasing incomes of the poor by forming 275 producer organizations, improving natural resource management by local communities and converging with government programs by forming 1,645 Community Development Groups (CDGs), addressing unemployment by skilling 20,000 youth, and engaging in fruitful partnerships with expert organizations to focus on cluster development through value chains and natural resource management.