TSSD is promoting the extension of stronger rural financial services to resource-poor smallholder farmers through Group Revolving Funds (GRFs) and enabling better access to support services and technical and market information on improved livelihood practices. Around 1,240 livelihood improvement groups (LIGs) are to be assisted by the project.

Already 940 groups have been formed and 400 of them have received the basic training required for management of GRF. Members of these 400 LIGs have received their first trench of GRF-loan of $100 each to pursue improvement of their priority livelihood activity. LIG members have used their loan for rice production, livestock and small business (grocery retail outlet).