Premium - Gist of Press Information Bureau: December 2013
SETTING UP OF THE BHARAT RURAL LIVELIHOOD FOUNDATION (BRLF)
The Union Cabinet today approved the proposal for setting up
of the Bharat Rural Livelihood Foundation (BRLF) as an independent charitable
society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860 to facilitate and upscale
civil society action in partnership with Government for transforming livelihoods
and lives of rural households, with an emphasis on women, particularly in the
Central Indian Tribal Region.
It will provide financial grants to Civil Society
Organizations (CSOs) to meet their human resource and institutional costs for
upscaling of proven interventions; invest in institutional strengthening of
smaller CSOs and capacity building of professional resources working at the
grassroots.
Projects supported by BRLF would be able to reach 10 lakh
poor families by the end of the fifth year. BRLF would also have supported the
capacity building of 1,000 CSO professionals and institutional strengthening of
a significant number of smaller CSOs within the above time frame.
Even though BRLF will have an India wide mandate, the initial
focus of the organization will be on the Central Indian Tribal Region, centered
on blocks having significant tribal population across 170 districts in the
States of Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra
Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Gujarat.
