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Credit and Financial Services: Samriddhi - Rural Enterprises and Remittances Project

The project goal is to contribute to reducing poverty and achieving sustainable peace through employment-focused, equitable and inclusive economic development. The development objective is that viable rural micro, small and medium enterprises (RMSEs), in both farming and off-farming sectors, provide sustainable sources of income to poor households, migrant families and returnees. Main indicators are: (i) 57,500 rural entrepreneurs expand their existing business or create a new one; (ii) 30,000 rural youth access job placement services; (iii) 34,500 RER-supported enterprises (22,500 new and 12,000 existing); and (iv) 21,000 RER-supported vocational trainees and apprentices, of which 30% of women.