UNDP Partnership with DAY-NULM

June 22, 2023

Context:

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) entered into a collaborative partnership.

About the UNDP Partnership with DAY-NULM:

Aim: To provide support for women looking to start and expanding their own enterprises
Sectors focused: care economy, digital economy, electric mobility, waste management, food packaging and more.
Duration: Three-year project, extendable beyond 2025
Coverage: Eight cities in the initial phase

On-ground mobilisation activities by UNDP and DAY-NULM:
- Identifying pockets of urban poverty and potential entrepreneurs
- Facilitating access to Business Development Services.

Handholding support:
- To formalise their businesses
- To establish bank linkages
- To secure access to finance and markets.

Biz-Sakhis:
- UNDP will develop community business mentors called Biz-Sakhis in selected project locations.
- These mentors, who possess valuable business knowledge, can support new and existing enterprises, and serve as a resource for DAY-NULM at a later stage.

Additional Information:

About Deen Dayal Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM):

Centrally Sponsored Scheme by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
Coverage: All the 4041 statutory cities and towns, thereby covering almost the entire urban population.
Salient features of NULM:
- Building strong grass root level institutions of the urban poor through social mobilization.
- Enabling the urban poor to access gainful self employment or skilled wage employment opportunities resulting in a significant improvement in their livelihood.
- Providing shelters equipped with essential amenities to the urban homeless in a phased manner.
- NULM addresses the livelihood concerns of the Urban Street Vendors by facilitating access to suitable spaces, institutional credit, social security and skills for accessing emerging market opportunities.