SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS AND ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE (SLACC)

About: 

• Launched by: Hyderabad-based National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR). 
  
  
• Objective: The training programme of SLACC has been launched to help Rural Poor Farm-based Households adapt to Climate Change and sustain their livelihoods. 
  
  
• Parent programme: It has been launched under the National Rural Livelihood Mission. 
  
  
• Coverage: Total 638 drought and flood-prone villages of Madhya Pradesh and Bihar are being covered on pilot basis under this first of its kind initiative. It will be scaled up nationwide in due course.