Economic Inclusion and the National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) Jeevika

The webinar presented an overview of the Jeevika program in the state of Bihar. Jeevika is one of the world’s largest programs for strengthening rural financial inclusion and livelihoods and operates as part of India’s National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM). This webinar has presented implementation perspectives on how Jeevika has leveraged communities, built on livelihood and financial inclusion platforms. Recent efforts to expand toward more vulnerable population groups under the Satat Jeevikoparjan Yojana (SJY) program were discussed as well.

Presenters:
Paramveer Singh, World Bank
Shagun Sabarwal, J-PAL

Discussant:
Arijit Dutta, Bandhan Konnagar

Moderator:
Doris King, Co-Impact

This was the second webinar of the Economic Inclusion Learning Series. The webinar series, organised by the World Bank Group Social Protection and Jobs, Partnership for Economic Inclusion (PEI), SPEC, is designed based on peer-to-peer learning from diverse experiences from countries moving economic inclusion programs to scale.

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