Building capacity of the urban poor, therir institutions and the machinery involved in the implementation of livelihoods development and poverty alleviation programmes through hendholding support.
Enhancing and expanding existing livelihoods options of the urban poor.
Building skill to enable access to growing market-based job opportunities offered by emerging urban enconomies.
Training for and support to the establishment of micro-enterprises by the urban poor –self and group.
Ensure availability and access for the urban homeless population to permanent 24-hourshelters including the basic infrastructural facilities like water supply, sanitation, safety andsecurity.
Cater to the needs of especially vulnerable segments of the urban homeless like thedependent children, aged, disabled, mentally ill, and recovering patients etc., by creatingspecial sections within homeless shelters and provisioning special service linkages for them.
o establish strong rights-based linkages with other programmes which cover the right ofthe urban homeless to food, healthcare, education, etc. and ensure access for homelesspopulations to various entitlements, including to social security pensions, PDS, ICDS,feeding programmes, drinking water, sanitation, identity, fi nancial inclusion, schooladmission etc., and to affordable housing;
o address livelihood concerns of the urban street vendors by facilitating access tosuitable spaces, institutional credit, social security and skills to the urban street vendors foraccessing emerging market opportunities.