Mission
To reduce poverty by enabling poor households to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities, resulting in an appreciable increase in their incomes, on a sustainable basis through building solid grassroots institutions for the poor. These institutions empower poor households to build up their human, social, financial and other resources, solidarity, voice, and bargaining power. They, in turn, enable them to access their rights, entitlements and opportunities.
Vision
DAY-NRLM’s agenda is to reach out, mobilize, and support all poor rural areas in the state into their self-managed SHGs, their federal institutions and bring them in livelihoods collectives. Its long-term dedicated and sensitive support would be with them and extend facilitation support in all their efforts to get out of poverty. It transforms from ‘for the poor’ to ‘of the poor and by the poor’.
It works on three pillars:
- Enhancing and expanding existing livelihood options for the poor,
- Building skills for the job market outside and nurturing self-employed and Entrepreneurs (for micro-enterprises).
- Facilitating them enter larger enterprises.
In addition, the poor would be facilitated to achieve increased access to their rights, entitlements, public services, diversified risks, and better social indicators of empowerment.
Core Value
The following core values guide all activities and staff in the state:
- Hope and belief (that poverty is eradicable) and Faith (in the innate capacity of the poor);
- Inclusion, Participation and Ownership (and meaningful role for the poorest/ poor and their institutions in all project processes–planning, implementation and monitoring);
- Transparency and Accountability (of all processes and institutions);
- Community self-reliance and self-dependence.
- Integrity (of the highest order);
- Sustainable Livelihoods Provision.
- Staying, being and working with the poor (ensuring most/majority of their time with the community) is non-negotiable for all staff.
