North Eastern Rural Livelihood Project
North Eastern Rural Livelihood Project (NERLP) is a World Bank aided project to enhance livelihood opportunities in North East states by creating sustainable community institutions around women Self-Help Groups (SHGs), Youth Groups of men and women (YG) and Community Development Groups (CDG) etc. It was launched in 2013 for 5 years. The project covers two districts in each state of Nagaland, Mizoram, Tripura and Sikkim. The project is under the overall governance of Ministry of DONER and is funded by the ministry as well as World Bank.
North Eastern Rural Livelihood Project (NERLP)
Introduction
North Eastern Rural Livelihood Project (NERLP) is a major initiative for addressing the needs of employment, income and natural resource sustainability of the rural population of the NE Region.
Aim and objectives
The aim of the project is to enhance livelihood opportunities among participating local community groups through participatory and demand-driven investment choices and collective action, with support from value-adding partnerships.
The main objectives of the program are, to:
- Create sustainable community institutions around women Self-Help Groups (SHGs), Youth Groups of men and women (YG) and Community Development Groups (CDG).
- Build capacity of community institutions for self governance, bottom up planning, democratic functioning with transparency and accountability.
- Increase economic and livelihood opportunities by
- Managing natural resources and improving agriculture for food security and income enhancement from farming and allied activities
- Skill development of youth for employability and establishment of self and/or group managed enterprises
- Establishing backward and forward linkages for economic enterprises
- Creating access to finance through linkages with banks and other financial institutions
- Creating critical infrastructures
- Develop partnership of community institutions for natural resource management, microfinance, market linkages, and sectoral economic services.
Target group
The project will support all the poor families in all the blocks of each district. The target group largely composed of marginal farmers, scheduled tribes, scheduled castes, households headed by women and unemployed youth.
Approach
The project has three components.
- Social empowerment:
It aims to provide intensive and long-term training to strengthen self-help groups and village councils, protect vulnerable sections of communities and strengthen cultural heritage and identities.
- Economic empowerment:
This component seeks to enhance productivity, employment and incomes in a sustainable manner, on a demand-driven basis through,
- improving access to finance and formation of capital assets at the household level
- providing vocational skills training to facilitate employment generation
- community-based infrastructure and service delivery
- natural resources management, community-based forestry management, non-timber forest products and mobilization of carbon financing
- technical assistance and seed capital for value-addition activities in the downstream segments of relevant supply chains
- Partnerships development and management
The third component aims at establishing and managing effective linkages with
- line departments in each of the participating states, to facilitate technology transfer of productivity enhancing innovations
- specialized institutions and the private sector, to improve market access and employment generation
- financial institutions, to increase access to finance
- NGOs/service providers, to upgrade skills and capacity that would allow them to work more effectively with participating communities.
Coverage and Funding
The proposed timeframe of the project is 5 years. The project covers two districts in each state of Nagaland, Mizoram, Tripura and Sikkim. The project is under the overall governance of Ministry of DONER and it will be funded by the ministry. It is also funded by the World Bank.
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