a. Developing and strengthening pro-poor local institutions/groups - Nurturing Institutions of the poor by supporting formation, strengthening and empowering self-managed community organizations:

• The project will facilitate identification of poor and poorest especially women, disabled and vulnerable and mobilize them to form into self-managed community organizations like Self-help Groups (SHGs), Village Poverty Reduction Committees (VPRCs) etc.,

• Sensitizing the Gram Panchayat (GP) towards becoming pro-poor by building their capacities as well as providing incentive fund. Similarly, other line departments will also be sensitized.

b. Building skills and capacities of the poor

• The skills and capacities of the poorest and poor including Disabled and Most Vulnerable, their representatives, and community service providers need to be developed so that they manage their institutions and influence the local organizations to be inclusive and responsive to the needs of the poor.

• Enhancing the livelihoods of the target population by imparting/ enhancing their skills.

c. Financing productive demand-driven subproject investments

• Community (rural poor – women, Disabled and Most Vulnerable) themselves with the support and facilitation help from the project and other service providers will identify potential ideas, develop village livelihood plans and proposals for enhancing their livelihoods.

• The project will provide technical support for the preparation of village livelihood plans and proposals by building the capacities of the service providers identified by the poor from within the community, sensitizing the Line Departments and Bankers, developing forward and backward linkages and identifying and establishing partnerships

• The project finance is seen as a leverage fund so as to access credit from banks and other sources.