| AISECT
Rural India Skill Empowerment Program
AISECT empowers 2,00,000 women and youth with digital literacy
skills. This program spans 8 states, including Madhya Pradesh,
Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, and more, impacting over 1,09,290
beneficiaries.
Empowering Southern
India
AISECT drived skill training in the southern regions of Andhra Pradesh,
Telangana, and Karnataka. Together, it empowered 284 candidates,
ushering in new opportunities for youth and women as in-store promoters
and demonstrators.
AISECT trained youths for Telecom and IT/ITeS roles to skill enhancement.
It has trained 200 candidates, contributing to their employability.
AISECT
is shaping the future of youth across Indore and Bhopal and has
trained 360 candidates , constructing pathways to success.
AROH
Chhattisgarh, India
AROH adopts a twin way strategy for empowering youth into
contributing asset of the economy viz
(i) placement linked skilling and
(ii) self-employment based skilling for developing an enterprise/entrepreneur.
Aligned to SDG 1, 5, 8, 9 and 10, both the approaches are strategically
designed by AROH to address demands, availability and socio –
economic set up of the demography.
GARIMA, UDAAN, UNNATI, AROGYAM for skill training, enterprise
and entrepreneur development
DDU-GKY for placement linked skill training
SHAKTI for skill training, enterprise & entrepreneur development,
advocacy & awareness
SWASTH BHARAT for skilling and awareness around health
CYSD
Odisha,
India
CYSD aims to economically empower resource-poor youth by providing
them with essential skills through initial training, continuous
development, re-skilling, and recognizing their learning to enhance
employability.
The
special skill and entrepreneurship development initiatives of
CYSD include its Skills-for-Livelihoods, an intervention – special
programme for skilling and enhancing employability; the Agri-allied
Skill Development targeted at for the returnee migrants, agri-entrepreneurship;
and the unique Women on Wheels (WoW) that aims to empower the
resource-poor women as commercial drivers. CYSD has also been
consistently striving to develop vocational skills among rural
and tribal youth, both women and men, through training programs
in computer education, four-wheeler driving, tailoring, embroidery,
and electrical repair. This initiative also supports the broader
goal of strengthening social protection mechanisms for vulnerable
groups, including unemployed resource-poor youth, rag-pickers,
sanitation workers, domestic workers, street vendors, and daily
wage labourers.
Additionally,
CYSD helps build strong networks with retail outlets and employers
to meet their workforce demand by appropriately skilling youth.
The program will offer tailor-made, need-based training in areas
such as language and communication, life and positive thinking,
personality development, management, and behavioural skills.
CYSD
Odisha,
India
A program focused on life skills, aimed at transforming the lives
of young boys and girls living in the slums of Bhubaneswar. DAKSHYATA
opens new opportunities and provides meaningful engagement, connecting
participants with income-generating opportunities that lead to
financial independence and visible improvements in their lives
and livelihoods. This program has nurtured hundreds of young individuals,
transforming underproductive slum youth into active contributors
to society.
Deshpande
Foundation
Hubballi, Karnataka, India
The foundation's Skilling initiative impacts elementary and middle
school students, as well as graduates from these areas. It has
designed skill development programs to support students and unemployed
youth to acquire job-oriented skills and join the formal employment
sector. Through innovative pilots, leveraging emerging technology
in classrooms and an integrated learning management system, the
impact of these programs has been made economically viable and
scalable, to gradually effect rural transformation.
SkillPlus & SkillPlus-R : These two skill development programs
are designed to bridge the education-employment skill gap through
demand-driven, industry-specific programs. This enables to transform
unemployed rural youth into skilled intrapreneurs, possessing
relevant skills for evolving job roles. The rural youth is trained
in real-world scenarios and given hands-on experience in their
chosen fields.
Focus Area : English Communication and Life Skills, Information
Communication Technology (ICT), Reasoning and Aptitude, Leadership
Skills
Don
Bosco Network
Tamil Nadu, India.
Don Bosco Network implements different projects to enable youth
to become self-reliant and productive citizens.
To improve the employability and earning potential, skill training
and job placement assistance was provided to unskilled youth in
Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu. Under this project, 80 unemployed and unskilled
youth acquired technical skills to get better job opportunities
and placement guidance.
Don
Bosco Network
Tamil Nadu, India.
Empowering Underprivileged Youth with Multimedia and Design Skills
Activities in Motion:
● Six-month skill Training in Multimedia and Design for underprivileged
youth at DB MIDEA, offering them valuable skills for a promising
future.
● On-the-job training, equipping them with practical experience.
● Placement Services to ensure these young individuals find suitable
employment opportunities.
● Handholding Support with ongoing support and guidance to help
youth navigate their career paths successfully.
Etasha
Society
Delhi, India
ETASHA’s interventions for young girls and boys from low-income
communities since 2006 are designed to address the concerns of
the youth and help launch them on the path of employment, income
generation, career growth, and progress. We believe that skilling
the youth in market-relevant trades and employability skills along
with attitude and mind-set change is critical for improving employment
outcomes and higher productivity leading to faster and more sustainable
economic growth.
Our programs work on the overall development of the youth, including
their communication, presentation, and technical skills, to help
them carve out a promising career path for themselves.
İstanbul
International Centre for Private Sector in Development
The Sustainable Development Goals underline the role of skills
generation for work, entrepreneurship, employment, livelihoods
and development. The private sector has a crucial role to play
both in the design and delivery of skills development. The engagement
of private sector actors can enhance market-relevant employability
skills of students and trainees, especially disadvantaged groups
like youth and women. In turn, the business community gains access
to a highly-skilled workforce that significantly improves competitiveness
and productivity.
Mudhalvan
Foundation, Chennai, India
Skill Development & Job Placement Support
Identify unemployed youth – men & women, train them in various
skills. Those who have already acquired some skills, up-skill,
cross-skill them and make them employable. Help them to get placed
corporates.
Newbiginnings
Charitable Trust (NCT)
NCT believes in the importance of investing in youth to create
lasting positive change—Vocational Skills Training is one of the
best ways for communities to achieve that. By targeting those
often overlooked—the unskilled and illiterate—and endowing them
with the necessary tools to become employable, NCT helps communities
build change from the ground up. NCT
provides training to the rural youth in employable trades such
as automobile repair, electronics, tailoring, embroidery, phone
repair, organic farming, and animal husbandry. These skills help
youth off the streets and equip them with the knowledge conducive
to economic opportunity.
Vocational
Skills Training for rural unemployed and unskilled youths helps
our goal to energize rural economies. Self-sufficiency among young
people brings capital back to their home communities, which in
turn improves economic growth and security both locally and nationally.
NIIT
Foundation
The large population of underprivileged youth residing in urban
slums lack or possess negligible vocational skills. This prevents
them from taking advantage of the vast employment opportunities
in the cities of India. Therefore, many youth living in urban
communities remain unemployed or under-employed.Skills
training is one of the most powerful tools for making a lasting
impact on the lives of these young people and their families.
The aim is to make them self-reliant and instill Changemaker qualities
in each one of our students.
NIIT Foundation
has various models through which skill training is provided to
our beneficiaries.
1) Setting up of Skilling Centers.
These are Career Development Centers providing short-term courses
focusing on digital literacy. These centers are set up in remote
locations of India, where even basic digital literacy is lacking.
The aim of these centers is to benefit the unemployed youth living
in these locations, with the objective of providing employment
to youth in the organized industry. These centers target 18-30-year
olds.
2) NIIT Foundation is providing skill training by setting up IT
Foundation Centers.
These centers are meant for tier three towns. The IT programs
are designed for people who may be digitally literate. A foundation
is provided to build careers. These centers offer courses including
personality development, communication skills and impart work-etiquettes
in the students. These centers focus on the all-round development
of every beneficiary at the center. The courses are long term.
These centers target students in the age of 16-30 years.
3) Skilling Going Virtual
In order
to ensure that Learning can take place Anytime and Anywhere, NIIT
Foundation has transitioned to a Learning Management System (LMS)
for its students. LMS is available in both web and app format.
There are both career and non-career courses available on this
system. These include Retail and Inventory Management, Logistics,
Digital Marketing, Personality Development and Spoken English.
There is also Active Basic IT, Career Edge IT Professional, Professional
Edge, Digital Literacy and financial literacy courses that students
have access to on LMS. In order for this to work, students are
also being provided with a lot of self-learning material including
E-books, videos, quizzes, collaborative exercises and module assignments.
NIIT Foundation is also providing online assessments after each
module and summative assessments during term end, for certification.
NITTSD
National Institute For Technical Training & Skill Development
(NITTSD) is a National organization which formed to work towards
“Skill India Mission”. The main objective of NITTSD is to improve
the technical skills among the youth in the country.
Pratigya
Educational Initiative Society
Delhi & Uttar Pradesh
Skill development is one of the major projects taken up by PRATIGYA.
The emphasis is to skill the youth in such a way so that they
get employment and also improve entrepreneurship. Pratigya is
running skill development
programs since 2015.
Prerana
A youth with education but lack of skills and no employment can
be a recipe for disaster. Prerana has a well-structured program
for multifaceted skill development to help students bridge this
gap and pursue their career aspirations. From instilling confidence
to speak up to preparing them for cracking an interview, Prerana
goes all out in making them employable. Education-to-Employment
is the mantra that Prerana chants all the time!
Prerana Readiness for Employment Program is a series of training
modules designed to prepare students to become work-ready by the
time they graduate. Corporate executives and experts volunteer
to mentor and provide finishing touches to graduating students
to achieve their career goals. As a finishing touch, HR consultants
and potential employers are roped in for career placement.
Roots
Foundation
Project
Unnati, aligned with the National Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Policy, striving to empower the youth through skill development
programs. The initiative serves to bridge the gap between opportunities
and a skilled workforce by establishing robust market linkages
and providing pre and post-placement counseling.
By offering
NSDC-certified training as Sewing Machine Operators (SMOs) to
young school and college dropouts, the project facilitates their
integration into the workforce. Placements in apparel manufacturing
organizations are supplemented with post-placement support, ensuring
sustained employment.
Sahbhagi
Kadam Badhate Chalo
Initiate a youth-led campaign to end violence against women. Support
youth leadership and provide them with knowledge and skill to
initiate a change in their surroundings.
Shantisahyog
There is a growing realization that having an educational degree,
does not always help in getting a job commensurate with one’s
qualification. However, a minimum qualification of Class X combined
with some vocational skill leads to employment opportunities.
Shanti Sahyog runs two Skill Development Centres in Delhi with
the aim :
1) To expand the earning capability of the marginalized sections
of society, thus bringing them into the mainstream, by teaching
vocational skills;
2) To empower underprivileged students /adults by providing sustainable
livelihood leading to economic independence;
3) Special attention to school drop outs with a minimum qualification
of Class X.
Cutting & Tailoring : The aim is to provide Cutting &
Tailoring Skills to underprivileged girls /women with a view to
help them earn a living by stitching clothes from their homes
(self-employment) or get a job at a boutique / export house and
supplement the family income, to improve their quality of life.
SIVA
Trust
Life Skills Education
Besides income generating activities, SIVA Trust also provide
life skills education for the youths. The life enrichment education
that was imparted by the Counsellor to the youth consists of the
opportunities available for employment, scope of vocational training,
care of physical and mental health, evils of alcoholism, self
development, learning for life work, adjustment with job providers
and the future opportunities.
Upskilling
Youths for Employment
Skill training on four wheeler driving and mechanism, Electrical
repair and appliances and tailoring are also provided to the unemployed
youths.
Swarajya
Foundation, Thane
Skill development courses for youth
Turnstone
Global
The Soft Skills component is specifically included with Spoken
English keeping in mind the job market. So that the youth gets
a complete package of self-presentation and documentation regarding
promoting him/her for the job market. Turnstone Global frequently
conducts soft skill development workshop for students undergoing
vocational training. HR managers from various industries and corporate
houses are being invited to these workshops which enable our students
to interact with prospective employers. In the past, person like
Ms Nivedita Nayak, Regional HR Manager of Amway took part at one
of such workshop of 42 trainees. The trainees were being appeared
mock interview sessions thus enabling them to brush up their skills
to bag suitable job.
Turnstone
Global : Government Support
Skill Development with Government Supports:
To enhance the quality and quantity of the skill development training
among the unemployed underprivileged youth ;Turnstone Global takes
affiliation of PBSSD ( A scheme of Utkarsha Bangla ) & Neheru
Yuba Kendra under the Ministry of Skill Development , and enrolled
skill development courses for its multiple centers in districts
of Darjeeling, Malda, Uttar Dinajpur, East and west Midnapore,
North & South 24 Parganas
The enrolled
courses are : Computer
fundamentals, Travel & Tourism, IT & ITES, Beauty &
Wellness, Retail Management, Hospitality Management, Bedside Nurse,
General Duty Assistant Tour operator
Udgi
Foundation
Uttar Pradesh
Coding
In today’s digital economy, coding is a fundamental skill that
opens doors to education, innovation, and employment.
However, most rural youth are left behind due to lack of access,
awareness, or guidance in the field of programming and software
development. They are unable to explore technology careers despite
having the potential.
Code for Youth breaks this barrier by making coding simple, inclusive,
and opportunity-oriented for rural students.
Main focus
areas : Introduction to Programming , Python
& Web Development , Problem-Solving
& Algorithms , Project-Based
Learning , Career
Orientation & Internships
Udgi
Foundation
Uttar Pradesh
STEM for Youth
In rural India, students often lack access to quality science
labs, tech exposure, and practical learning.
They study science only through books, with very little hands-on
experience, which affects understanding and interest in the subject.
This leads to low confidence, poor problem-solving abilities,
and lack of motivation for STEM careers. STEM for Youth fills
this gap by making science fun, accessible, and practical for
every child, no matter where they live.
Main
Focus Areas : Hands-on STEM Education , Robotics
& Basic Engineering , Math
with Fun Activities , Technology
Exposure , STEM
Exhibitions & Science Days
United
Nations
Centre for Skill Development : Partners
: Skill Development Association - India and Siddi Degree College
Creating opportunities and conducive environment for skill development
of youth across nation to make them globally employable, Enabling
youth to explore Entrepreneurial opportunities and build enterprises,
Be a choiced destination for imparting skills education, research
and consulting assignments, Offering quantifiable, Sustainable,
Scalable and Replicable employment and entrepreneurship opportunities
while striving to create a sense of ultimate delight among all
stakeholders.
United
Nations
Developing Youth Skills for the Future: A Vision from Pakistan
United
Nations : 21st Century Skills for Sustainable Development project
The objective of the partnership is to develop reliable tool
to assess 4C skills and the ways hot to improve their development
during the teaching\learning activities. It is aimed at aimed
at accelerating of the achievement of the SDG 4th and SDG 17th.
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