Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society (BRLPS) is an independent society set up by the Government of Bihar and supported by the World Bank. The BRLPS is implementing JEEViKA - Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project with the objective of enhancing the social and economic empowerment of the rural poor in Bihar. BRLPS through the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project (BRLP) aims to improve rural livelihood options and works towards social and economic empowerment of the rural poor and women. The BRLP intervenes with the community through the following four themes or programmes: institution and capacity building, social development, microfinance and livelihood. 

The objective is to enhance the social and economic empowerment of the rural poor by:

• Creating self managed community institutions of participating households;
• Enhancing income through sustainable livelihoods;
• Increasing access to social protection including food security by enabling the rural poor to articulate a more effective voice in the implementation of such schemes.