Jammu and Kashmir Rural Livelihoods Mission popularly known as UMEED aims to reduce poverty in the union territory. The Mission aims that every poor household comes out of poverty with immense confidence and belief in them and reap benefits of the central government programme.<br />''<br />''The Rural Livelihoods Mission works on seven steps to poverty reduction that includes identification of the poor, organizing the poor, creating favorable environment to harness their potential, showing them the path to capital, showing them the path to right livelihood, social awareness and safety nets around the poor and converging welfare schemes as their entitlements.<br />''<br />''UMEED launched in 2011, is continuing in extension mode in Jammu & Kashmir. The Mission was rolled out and implemented in a phased manner that lays emphasis on sustainable institution-building approach. Such initiatives have been successful wherever the target groups afflicted with poverty organized themselves and created support structures that are sensitive to their needs/demands.<br />''<br />''Experts say the Social Capital that exists among the poor is focussed to be harnessed to facilitate the poor to manage their own sensitive support institutions. The Mission is aimed to facilitate the poor to develop a strong Social Capital base to create, support and nurture their institutions to function effectively for the cause of poor. Mission Director talked about the execution of UMEED in Jammu & Kashmir.<br />''<br />''The Rural Livelihoods Mission UMEED puts greater thrust on continuous training of the community in the form of exposure visits, participation in workshops, and conducting training programs round the year for the community cadre. Diverse training programmes on core requirements under the mission are conducted focusing on the mobilization of poor, organizing the poor to focus on financial inclusion, enhancing the livelihood, etc.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">UMEED encompasses the spirit of universal social mobilization wherein it enables poor to build their organizations by themselves, take tangible decisions that have an impact on their lives by debating and discussing among themselves in a transparent manner. To ensure universal mobilization, at least one member from each rural poor and vulnerable household, preferably a woman, remains part of Self Help Group (SHG). UMEED has an objective to be a people-led and people-centred initiative for providing space, voice and resources for the poor in an open and transparent manner.</span><br />