For vocational training, SPPAP has partnered with the Institute of Rural Management (IRM). Under certain agreement, IRM undertakes tasks such as screening potential trainees, setting up training centers at the grassroots level, providing training across various trades, and fostering linkages for participants.
SPPAP operates as a community-driven initiative, with social mobilization at its core. To engage and empower impoverished households, SPPAP partners with the National Rural Support Program (NRSP) as its District-based Social Mobilization Partner (SMP). Social mobilization involves the process of encouraging both men and women to form groups, typically comprising 15-20 members, known as Community Organizations (COs). The current structure of community organizations will be carried out by following existing CO formation procedure under SPPAP.
The objective of such component is to provide poor women a sustainable source of livelihood. The women are provided productive assets which include goats and small land plots. The role of NRSP as SMP is to identify the needs of assets from poor women households through CO resolution as comprehensively defined in project implementation strategy.
A small ruminant includes provision of goats to poor women who have potential to generate and increase their income through this provision. Women are receiving two goats under the asset creation component having NPSC 0-32 (Quantile 1&2).
Livestock is a primarily women’s activity. Most households cannot afford to buy their own livestock and many share the ownership of livestock with landlords under various exploitative arrangements that define their share in the produce and off-spring. This sharing arrangement limits the returns women obtain from this activity. By providing them with their own livestock, SPPAP assist women to break the vicious cycle and enhance their own incomes. Provision of small ruminants to women beneficiaries is depicted as follows in reported fiscal year 2024-25 till June, 2025.
