Mission & Vision


The Mission
“To reduce poverty by enabling the poor households to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities, resulting in appreciable improvement in their livelihoods on a sustainable basis, through building strong grassroots institutions of the poor”
The Goal: Poverty alleviation through social mobilization, institution building, financial inclusion and a portfolio of sustainable livelihoods
Core Values
- Inclusion of the poorest, giving them meaningful role in all the processes
- Transparency and accountability of all processes and institutions
- Ownership and key role of the poor and their institutions at all stages – planning, implementation, and monitoring Community self-reliance and self-dependence
- Ownership and key role of the poor and their institutions at all stages – planning, implementation, and monitoring Community self-reliance and self-dependence

Our Vision
- 6 Lakh vibrant women SHGs – covering the most vulnerable sections of society: 3.24 crores of poor people impacted positively by the movement.
- 3341 Women’s Cooperatives in the State at the Gram Panchayat level providing financial services to members.
- HG Institutions playing a positive and significant role in the poverty reduction plan of the Gram Panchayat (meaning the entire rural landscape).
- Women leaders developed at the grass-root level for ensuring that women have a voice in determining their future as well as the future of their community
