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Livelihood Promotion
The Livelihood Initiative contributes towards strengthening livelihood
opportunities of small and marginal farmers, landless labourers and
empowering women’s non-farm enterprises to benefit from market. Prayatn
focuses on strengthening partner community’s organizational capabilities
and enables them to evolve strategies for livelihood enhancement.
Prayatn’s approach for this purpose include developing organizational and
mutual collaboration of people having common livelihood needs and
interests and come up with effective models of cooperation for livelihood
enhancement at local level.
Our work has been instrumental in facilitating women access to rights
based entitlements. They now have better access to social security schemes
and emplouyment schemes such as MNREGS. An improved portfolio has
contributed to livelihood portfolio of the family.
PRAYATN also engages with awareness raising activities for the communities
and lobby with duty bearers with an objective to improve access of partner
communities to right to work and employment.
Special focus is also on women groups. They are trained in entrepreneurial
and technical skills related to food processing and preservation. The
groups have been provided with necessary backward and forward market
linkages.
A revolving fund has been instituted with an objective to support poor
families to create livelihood asset. In Varanasi, PRAYATN has organized
rickshaw pullers as mutual responsibility groups. The members of these
groups are provided with cycle rickshaws on ownership basis. The
installment recovered is pooled as revolving fund so that the help can be
extended to other rickshaw pullers.