As part of the Five Year Mission Mode Project, NEIDA aims to bring prosperity to rural households across 3 backward districts in Nagaland. The project seeks to build on existing capacities, innovations and provide an enabling institutional framework to scale-up more promising initiatives. The overall goal of the project is to ensure that income levels, food and nutrition security and living conditions are sustainably improved of people belonging to tribal communities in selected areas. The target of the project is to reach out to 14,000 poor households in Tuensang, Phek and Kiphire districts of Nagaland. 

The project aims to motivate semi-subsistence farmers to improve the productivity of agriculture and address natural resource management concerns associated with hilly terrains, and facilitate the farmers in providing animal health care, technical advice, and institutional support. Key interventions under the mission mode programme includes piggery, agriculture and horticulture, natural resource management and formation of community institutions (SHG and Farmers Groups). A Project Monitoring Committee (PMC) is formed in each village to oversee the project interventions. The project implementation has commenced from April 2015.

• Strengthening community institutions through formation of 600 SHGs and promote 500 vibrant primary Farmers Groups that are federated under 90 Producer Groups around common livelihoods activities enabled to lead and manage service delivery, such as  input supply, output marketing and agro-processing.
• Enable 14,000 rural farmers and communities across 90 villages in three districts in Nagaland to earn an annual income of at least Rs. 100,000 per annum from agriculture and allied activities
• Sustaining conservation efforts of communities and enhance capacity of traditional bodies of 15 villages on Natural Resource Management