Projects Continuing

  • STAR Skill Development & Employability in India

    This project aims to provide the following outcomes in india.

    • To provide skill development and employability in India
    • To create several jobs and digital opportunities
    • To enhance entrepreneurship and create more jobs in various industries
    • To target a gender equality in the field skill development and employability
    • To establish an ecosystem that builds and sustains the program for the promotion skill development and employability
    • To educate, train, and nurture young professionals in setting up their entrepreneurship

    To identify, develop and scale up innovative technology-based solutions to enhance skill development and employability

  • Regional Youth Digital Skills Strategies – Stage 1 (South Asia)

    Skill development is critical for enhancing the employability of India’s growing young population. For India to become the skill capital of the world, there is an urgent need to reimagine the skill strategy vis-à-vis market requirements. With more than third of the population expected to be in the productive age bracket by 2020, there is a clear opportunity for economic growth. If skill training is to be used as the means to help India move from a developing to a developed nation within a decade, this transformation will not happen on its own. It can only be made possible through the efforts of all stakeholders – government, industry, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, educational institutions and civil society – unified in the common desire of promoting the cause of skill development. The Indian Government continues to focus on education and skill-training while corporations and companies are invested in CSR in the same areas. There are a great number of initiatives in place dedicated to the skilling sector. For example, the World Bank has cleared a USD 250-million loan for making over 8.8 million Indian youth more employable through re-skilling by 20233. This Skill India Mission Operation (SIMO) will increase the market relevance of short-term skill development programmes (3-12 months or up to 600 hours) at the national and state level. Under the programme, adults in 15-59 years of age, underemployed or unemployed, will get the skill training. The programme will benefit approximately 15,000 trainers and 3,000 assessors.