Building Sustainable Futures: Livelihood Initiatives
Creating opportunities for economic empowerment and self-reliance.
Our Vision for Livelihood
Achievements at a Glance
- • 4,500 Women’s Self-Help Groups (SHGs) have been empowered financially.
- • 42,500 Women have received specific Life Skill & Income Generation Program (IGP) training.
- • 2,000,000+ Lives impacted across Odisha and Andhra Pradesh through our integrated network.
- • Sustainable Transition: Through projects like PREM-ABF, we have successfully facilitated the transition of numerous farming families toward economic stability.
Related Projects
Project PREM-UNFPA: ICPD25 & Transformative Action
People’s Rural Education Movement (PREM), in partnership with the UNFPA Odisha office, is actively engaged in the ICPD25 Nairobi commitments program of action. This initiative is a core part of UNFPA India’s 10th country program (2023-2027). The primary goal is to achieve Three Transformative Results among indigenous communities:
Project PREM-ABF: Cultivating Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Empowerment
Partner: Axis Bank Foundation (ABF) Focus Areas: Livelihood Support, Organic Agriculture, Women Empowerment Status: Core Programmatic Initiative
Tribal Academies: Empowering Adivasi Communities
As integral wings of the PREM-promoted Odisha Adivasi Manch, tribal academies serve as learning hubs for the all-inclusive development of the Adivasi communities.
Women & Girl Friendly Panchayats: Replicable Models for Gender Justice
Creating an enabling environment where every girl is valued and every woman leads.
Mission Shakti: Digital & Financial Empowerment of Self-Help Groups
Transforming Self-Help Groups into engines of digital and social power.
ACTIVITIES UNDER TAKEN BY PREM –RESPONDING TO COVID-19
PREM in association with Azim Premji Philanthropic Initiative (APPI), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and other agencies has under taken following activities to save the lives of migrant people and their livelihood during COVID-19 pandemic lock down.
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NURSING SUPPORT FOR GIRLS FOR THREE YEARS GNM COURSE
PREM is working for the development of mostly ‘Kondh’ and ‘Soura’ tribes and the rest belongs to Dalit communities. In the project area, Soura tribal villages are large in number and rest is Kondh and Dalit villages.
People’s Rural Health Promotion Scheme
One of PREM’s most celebrated innovations is the People’s Rural Health Promotion Scheme, in which 100,000 people in 500 villages of Adivasi, Dalit and Fisherfolk communities each invested INR 20 towards a comprehensive, three-tiered healthcare programme.
Agroforestry and Plantation Intervention in Tribal Districts of Odisha
PREM implemented a long-term Agroforestry and Plantation Intervention across the tribal districts of Odisha, in partnership with Save the Children Fund (SCF) and later with support from DFID, UK through Plan International. The programme reached 225 tribal villages and 7,751 families, primarily from indigenous and Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs).