Adhikar , India
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Bridging the skill gap of the weaker sections is critical at Adhikar as it widens the scope to generate sustainable income. Adhikar’s skill initiatives include transforming the un-skilled and semi-skilled youths as skilled labourers. Establish skill centers of excellence as skill hubs for unemployed youths with modern amenities, infrastructures and quality trainers. We focus on youths from rural and semi-urban areas especially from economically weaker sections who cannot afford to join a skill training institute. Preference is given to SC, ST, OBC & Female candidates who are mostly excluded and unable to join a established skill training institute.

Skill development process includes 3 specific states (i) Training (ii) Assessment (iii) Certification. The skill training at Adhikar is based on National Occupational Standard (NOS) for specific job roles formulated by Sector Skills Councils (SSCs).

AISECT , India
AISECT focuses on creating employment opportunities in the electric vehicle (EV) sector.riving Economic Empowerment of Women & Youth
AISECT’s skill development training program in the IT-ITeS sector encompassed training in basic computer literacy, data entry and soft skills job roles, also access to job placement opportunities for better livelihoods.
AISECT aimed at training candidates in the BFSI sector as skilled Mutual Fund Agents.
In our pursuit of sustainable livelihoods, AISECT is equipping unemployed youth with skills.
AISECT teamed with insurance companies to ignite the path to success across different states of Jharkhand.
AISECT uplifted underserved communities, women, people with disabilities, Below Poverty Line individuals, and minority communities.

Solar Training
AISECT trained candidates, preparing them for careers as Solar PV Installers, Tailors, Data Entry Operators, and Plumbers.

Ajmal Foundation , India
Hojai, Assam
Skill Development & Employment Generation
Less than 10% of the Indian labour force in the age group of 20-24 years has obtained vocational skills through formal means. The significant gap between vocational training seats available and number of people who enter the labour market ensures that large number of youth do not have access to skill development for improving their employability.
AJMAL FOUNDATION operates various skill development & training programs. These initiatives aim to improve the employability of the working population including school drop-outs, semi-skilled and un-skilled workers.

Amar Seva Sangam , India
Tamil Nadu
Typewriting
Typewriting Centre registered with Department of Technical Education, Tamil Nadu provides training to rural poor and physically challenged students to get employable skills. Due to a recent regulation of Tamil Nadu making data entry jobs in government mandatory, many data entry operator aspirants have joined our senior grade typing classes. We have trained more than 365 students so far in Junior and Senior typewriting skills

Association for Non-traditional Employment for Women (ANEW) , India
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Basic and advanced IT Skills
ANEW is committed to the promotion and training of non-traditional employment for young girls and women. Our goal is to go beyond the training, bridging the gap between skilling and employment through our placement cell. Each of our courses is in direct response to the market’s needs and ANEW’s placement team communicates regularly with our partner institutions to receive feedback on our trainees and the content of our courses. In an effort to improve employability, all trainees are also trained in basic soft skills and English language. When they leave our classrooms, they not only have the skills but also the confidence to stand on their own feet and make their mark at the workplace.

AROH , India
New Delhi 110 005
Skill Development & Livelihood Generation
AROH runs various skill development programmes in India to reduce unemployment, raise incomes, and improve standards of living. AROH has so far trained thousands of youth and women in various trades and engaged them in gainful employment. AROH Foundation provides livelihood opportunities and job-placement for BPL rural youth and women.AROH works with communities to ensure that families in extreme poverty have the skills they need to enhance their income. Various need-based and interest-based skills are imparted to poor and marginalized people in both farm-based and non-farm based activities.

Associated Initiative for Mankind Foundation (aim Foundation) , India
Kolkata , West Bengal
Free Digital Marketing Course - A Skill Development Initiative by AIM Foundation
AIM Foundation offers a no-cost digital marketing course under our flagship Skill Development Initiative. This no-cost digital marketing course is designed for students, unemployed youth, homemakers, and small business owners. Our digital marketing training combines beginner-friendly lessons, real-life applications, and practical tools to ensure participants gain job-oriented, future-ready skills. Digital marketing is one of the fastest-growing skill areas globally. With businesses and individuals increasingly shifting to online platforms, learning digital marketing opens the door to multiple opportunities—freelancing, online entrepreneurship, digital jobs, home-based income, and business expansion.

Association of People with Disability, India
Bangalore, Karnataka
APD creates potential horticultural career prospects for PWDs in nurseries, landscaping, floriculture, tissue culture, and more. It also provides Garden Specialist Training which is a 4-month course on plants and seeds, watering, potting, composting, and other specialised skills.

CAP Foundation , India
Tamil Nadu
Khajaguda Telangana
The intervention targets below poverty youth with special focus on school dropouts, unemployed secondary school graduates, migrant youth and youth from resettlement communities. The program supports employment opportunity oriented workforce preparation with a strong focus on life skills and work readiness. Post training, the project connects the youth to job opportunities that allows them to earn and to access peer sharing networks. This implies involvement of business, vocational training service providers and industry professionals in developing integral components to learn, acquire skills, become employable, access jobs, earn, save and advance. Addressing the livelihood issues of these youth, with supporting transition pathways that help them move out of poverty and towards secure futures remains at the centre of the Basic Employability Skills Training program (BEST) of CAP Foundation

Centre for Advanced Research and Development (CARD) , India
BHOPAL Madhya Pradesh
Urban Livelihood Mission (SULM), under Directorate of urban administration and development, Government of Madhya Pradesh has implemented the DAY-National Urban Livelihood Mission (DAY-NULM) programme in the state in 70 mission cities. The program is designed to provide sustainable livelihood to urban poor through skill training and to reduce poverty and vulnerability of the urban poor households. The Employment through Skill Training and Placement (EST&P) component under the scheme is designed to provide skills to the unskilled urban poor as well as to upgrade their existing skills, enabling setting up of self-employment ventures and jobs placement in the private sector. Under this scheme, CARD is currently running 2 NULM centers in Dindori and Chhindwara, filling the gap between the demand and availability of local skills.

Cheshire Homes , India
Mumbai Suburban, Maharashtra
As part of sustainable livelihood programme, that endeavours to economically empower persons with disabilities, Cheshire Home undertakes foundation training , Job oriented, sector specific trainings and entrepreneurship, Self Employment, Employment (Jobs)
Programmes cover interview skills, interpersonal skills and attitude, work etiquettes, job readiness and workplace challenges, sector-specific skills, PWDs are assisted with small seed grants, people with disabilities are on an ongoing basis placed in wage employment , Job Fairs and Recruitment Drives

Doctors For You , India
Mumbai Suburban Maharashtra
The Garima Project is a national skill development initiative aimed at improving the professionalism and employability of underprivileged individuals.
Hygiene Technicians : Trains underprivileged individuals in hygiene and sanitation skills to enhance employment opportunities.
Skill Development Project for underprivileged : The project aimed to empower underprivileged youth by providing vocational training in Housekeeping and Food & Beverage (F&B) Service.
Soap For Hope is a hygiene-focused skill development initiative aimed at promoting sanitation and providing free soap to underserved communities. 86,900 soap bars distributed to slum dwellers, schoolchildren, hospital patients, and mothers.
Nurturing the First 1000 Days of Life Quarterly training sessions conducted to enhance the skills and awareness of frontline workers on: Maternal and Child Healthcare Services Developmental Milestones & Complementary Feeding Family Planning under the First 1000 Days approach

EPRAH , India
Kalkaji, New Delhi, 110019
EFRAH involve in capacity building work in many ways. It builds capacity to community women through self help groups on their livelihood. The adolescent girls are given soft skill and communication skill which help them for better employment opportunities and retention in the job wherever placed. Teachers are trained for innovative, skillful and play way method of teaching children during non-formal and balwari teaching.

Esdecs (Edskill Services) , India
West Bengal, India
ESDECS conducts its own placement linked training through an innovative skills4work intervention termed as ‘E2E Plus’ focusing on integrated services sector along the guidelines of MES and NSDC. E2E Plus offers an integrated 40-day placement linked skills training where students undergo intensive hands-on training in Hospitality, Retail and BPO on completion of which they are placed in entry level jobs in the 3 sectors.

Forbes Marshall Foundation , India
Pune
Shared Value Skilling
With Multiple partners : Shared value skilling programmes aim at increasing the employability of the engineers from underprivileged backgrounds and underserved geographies across India while also addressing the pressing problem of non- availability of skilled resources in the engineering industry.

Green India Trust , India
Nellore, Andhra Pradesh
Skill Development: Training programs on skill development are implemented, to help improve the employability of the working population including school drop-outs, semi-skilled and un-skilled workers. These programs include vocational training and digital literacy. i.e. tailoring.
Also developed skills for workplace integration for SHGs

Makerghat , India
Bandra (East), Mumbai
Our theory of change connects makerspaces, contextual curriculum, and mentor-led classrooms with data‑driven M&E to deliver 21st‑century skills, entrepreneurial ability, and equity in education for learners across India.
Our Curriculum :Customised lesson plans that spark curiosity, build skills, and inspire lifelong learning.
We focus on following 6 core skills :
Communication , Collaboration, Creative Thinking , Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Self Efficacy
Because today’s learners need more than knowledge — they need tools for life.

Masoom , India
Masoom’s Career Cell provides comprehensive career guidance, access to skill-building courses, and necessary support for night school and Evening Learning Center (ELC) alumni to secure meaningful employment. The initiative focuses on helping students explore diverse career paths, develop technical and entrepreneurial skills, and improve their overall standard of living. The Career Cell offers scholarships, career counseling, and support for both short-term vocational training and long-term professional education, aiming to empower students to break free from the cycle of poverty and secure better opportunities in the organized sector.

Maya CARE : Skill Development of Blue Collar , India
Maya CARE provides free vocational training in driving, tailoring, beautician courses, and household skills to underprivileged individuals, enabling them to secure stable employment. So far, over 450 individuals have been empowered through this initiative.

Mentor Together , India
Bangalore 560102
Shaping futures through mentoring
We're reducing the skills deficit, closing the network gap, and championing transformative gender norms. All toward ensuring full economic participation and greater social empowerment, especially for women.
Employment Woes : Education isn’t translating into jobs, leaving a massive skill gap in the workforce.
Young women learn skills that help them become work ready and get personalized guidance and support on a range of topics that empower them.

Mukti , India
Entrepreneurship Skill Development Training Program for MCDF Members
RSETI (Rural Self Employment Training Institutes) organized a ten-day advanced training program in food processing for rural women with the objectives of identifying, training, motivating & facilitating unemployed youth to create sustainable livelihoods through self-employment.

Narayan Seva Sansthan , India
Narayan Seva Sansthan (NGO) has established a centre called the “Narayan Shala” for training and skill development. It wants to help people by imparting the best skills and trainings helping them become self-dependent and build a quality life and a safe future.
Courses are : Mobile Repairing, Sewing, Computer Classes
All courses add significant value for lives of people going through the programme.

NASSCOM Foundation , India
Empowering the marginalised for better livelihoods
The initiative bridges the skills-employability divide for marginalised youth and women with digital skill-based training. We aim to provide easy access to digital technology skills for all communities, enabling better and more inclusive livelihoods in India's digital economy.​ Skilling and Employability Initiative aims to bridge the skills-employability divide for young people and women with goal to make digital technology skills accessible to all, enabling more inclusive livelihoods in India's digital economy.

Neevjivan Foundation , India
Navi Mumbai, Thane district
Module on Entrepreneurship skills
This 10-day module introduces the basics of doing business, inspired by Gandhi Ji’s principles of Nai Talim. With a focus on wholesome work and experiential learning, it equips women with practical knowledge and confidence to begin their entrepreneurial journey.

Introduction to Business, Goal Setting, Demand-Supply-Pricing, Competition Mapping, Product Pricing, Value Proposition, Sales & Marketing, Accounting & Book Keeping

Pratham Education Foundation
Mumbai, Maharashtra , India
Pratham’s Youth and Skilling program equips young people (18–35 years) from disadvantaged backgrounds with employable skills and provides them access to jobs, entrepreneurship, and further education. The program delivers structured courses and livelihood opportunities in five domains: Care Economy, STEM-aligned trades, Green Skills, IT-enabled services, and Travel & Tourism. Pratham’s affiliations include the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and multiple Sector Skill Councils.
Pratham runs training centres and provides localised community training across 18 states and 1 Union Territory in India, achieving a higher placement rate.
In addition to industry-specific skills, students are also offered basic English, computer literacy and life skills. Pratham currently offers certifications related to Green Skills: Solar Panel Repair, Plumbing, Drywall, and False Ceiling Repair

Saath Charitable Trust , India
Ahmedabad Gujarat
Building Skills for Inclusive Growth
Saath has been at the forefront of livelihood skilling for over two decades, providing both traditional trainings (like beauty, tailoring, masonry) and non-traditional trades (like mobile repair, spoken English, and hospitality services). These programs are tailored for youth, women, and informal sector workers, with a strong focus on employability, dignity of labour, and market relevance. Through hands-on learning and mentorship, Saath empowers individuals to build sustainable livelihoods.

The Edify Foundation , India
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Skills to Allow Self-Sufficiency
The Edify Foundation is dedicated to offering long-term solutions to poverty-related social issues. Self-improvement is essential to achieving this goal. We empower people by providing them with training, skills, and trades. The ability to seize influence and drastically alter their lives.
The Edify Foundation is committed to providing long-term solutions to social problems involving poverty.To achieve this aim, self-improvement is needed.People are empowered by the training, expertise, and trades we have.The desire to wield power and make significant changes in their lives.

NeevJivan Foundation , India
It offers a platter of vocations to our students and help them make the right choice - Poultry Farming, Fish Farming, Goat Rearing, Mushroom Cultivation, Vermi-composting, Tailoring, Nursery, Patrawali, Kulhad Making, Handicrafts, Catering / Dhaba, Bakery, Pani Puri, Food Processing, Sanitary Pad Making, Rural Tourism, Chiku Processing, Masala Making, Papad Making, Pickle Making, Bee Keeping & Honey Cultivation, Brick Making, Agarbathi Making, Sewai Making and many more….

Besides the technical knowledge on the vocation of choice, we also teach them. Entrepreneurship skills, facilitate access to funds and support our students to start their small scale business ventures.

The 30-45 day program is a combination of training workshops, interactive games & decoding group dynamics and on-line sessions – with maximum time being spent on practical aspects and the balance on theory.

Pratigya Educational Initiative Society , India
Delhi-110088
Skill Development
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.

SGBS Unnati Foundation , India
Bengaluru 560038, Karnataka
​Vocational Training and social transformation program for underpriveliged and unemployed youth 18-25 years
300 hours of training ​in spoken English, life skills, values, computers and counselling
Guaranteed Job Placement at various corporates with social security
Inclusive Growth by empowering families below the poverty line

Shanti Sahyog , India
New Delhi -110019
Skill Development with an eye on employment is the need of the hour and Shanti Sahyog is a widely known NGO working for Skill Development in Delhi/NCR since 2004. 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.
The aim is:
To expand the earning capability of the marginalized sections of society, thus bringing them into the mainstream, by teaching vocational skills;
To empower underprivileged students /adults by providing sustainable livelihood leading to economic independence;
Special attention to school drop outs with a minimum qualification of Class X.

Skills Art And Beyond , India
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
SAB has been implementing skill based employability enhancement training programs across 14+ sectors including retail, hospitality, tourism, IT/ITeS, electronics, automobile, healthcare, agriculture, handicrafts, telecom, iron and steel, solar, capital goods and management. With a network of more than 40 training centers across geographies, SAB has impacted thousands of youth so far. SAB strives to bring in best practices, fostering skill development and employment under various programs/projects across the country.

Society for Peoples’ Awareness (SPAN) , India
Kolkata West Bengal
Employment Opportunities: Career counselling and personality development training are provided to help individuals enhance their professional skills. Additionally, employment initiatives are actively pursued by connecting youth with potential employers and job placement opportunities.

Sun Foundation , India
Surya Kiran has established a large number of Skill Development Centres in various parts of Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Delhi. Most of these centres are located in rural areas which are remote and not easily accessible and lack good road communication and public transport facilities. Main courses conducted in these centres are drafting and stitching, textile designing, embroidery, basic computer knowledge and life style products. The package of courses in each centre is designed keeping in view the interests of local girls and women. Depending upon the type of skill, our Skill Development Centres conduct training courses of 4 to 6 months’ duration on regular basis throughout the year. After successful completion of the course, students are awarded a certificate by Sun Foundation . The certificate helps them in seeking better job opportunities.

Turnstone Global, India
(West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, Mizoram, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi)
Percentage of employment ratio vs. work force is the indicator of nation’s development. To generate employment, the youth of the country need to be skilled. With this mission along with government, Turnstone Global is tirelessly working for last 10 years to skill our youth. Turnstone Global is also helping girls between 17 to 40 girls to earn their livelihood through manufacturing Handicraft and linking the same with market. Turnstone Global also runs independent placement cell to support the youth for suitable and secure placement.

UPAY NGO , India
Nagpur, Delhi, Bengaluru
Samarth – Skill Development Centres
Samarth is a skill development initiative for women, especially mothers of our students and young women, with a motive to empower them through skill-based employability opportunities. The initiative was launched in the year 2016 to free families to break the shackles of poverty and provide dignity of labour. A six-month training course makes the beneficiaries industry-ready followed by order-based work allocation. The Samarth centres are currently running in Nagpur, Delhi-NCR, Gadarwara and Bengaluru.

Vidya Poshak , India
Dharwad , Karnataka
VDSS – Vidya Poshak Digital Skill Training Programs
Vidya Poshak is providing various skill training online programs to enhance the employability skills for all the students on following topics : Study techniques, Time Management, Emotional Management, Career Trends, Job readiness etc.

World Bank Group : Skills and Workforce Development , India
When done right, skills development can reduce un- and underemployment, increase productivity, and improve standards of living. Investing in upskilling or reskilling people for jobs of the future makes economic sense. In the dynamic landscape of the modern global labor market, education and workforce development systems must become more personalized, accessible (allowing for remote and hybrid learning), and continuous along throughout workers’ careers– placing “skills development” at the heart of these global transitions. Moreover, skills systems globally (and notably in LMICs) will need to adapt to the fact that many workers will engage in freelancing/informal jobs or self-employment that need to become more profitable, productive, and conducive for economic growth. To succeed in the 21st century labor market, one needs a comprehensive skill set

UNESCO's Global Skills Academy , India
Training and skills development opportunities for employability
The rapid pace of technological, economic, and societal transformations compounds this issue. Recent reports from the World Economic Forum indicate that 43% of business tasks are expected to be automated by 2027. This suggests the need for widespread reskilling (the process of acquiring new skills or knowledge to perform a different job or task) or upskilling initiatives to ensure employees globally can navigate the changing demands of the labour market