Kudumbashree is a female-oriented, community-based, poverty reduction project of the Government of Kerala. Kerala is an Indian state lying in the south-west part of the Indian subcontinent, where many development experiments are being tested, refined and implemented. This project is an offshoot of Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana 75% percent of the project is funded by the central government and 25 is funded by the state government.Kudumbashree movement was launched on May 17, 1998.