Youth Empowerment, Skills Development and Leadership building
Swabhimaan: Skills development programmes for youth and women in the margins
Strategies
Enable adolescents and young girls (14–24 years) to live gender-equitable lives with dignity, belonging, emotional wellbeing and future possibility.
Swabhimaan is a gender-transformative, enterprise-oriented livelihoods programme that supports marginalised youth especially adolescent girls and young women to transition from vulnerability to economic self-reliance and dignity of work.
Strategies:
Strengthening their gender awareness, lifeskills and leadership abilities.
Influencing the social, economic, relational conditions that shape everyday choices to become gender responsive and just.
The programme integrates:
- Vocational skills training (jute products, tailoring, allied crafts)
- Residential and non-residential safe learning spaces
- Wellbeing, gender and digital safety inputs
- Market-linked production and enterprise incubation
- Ongoing mentoring and ecosystem building
Key Achievements | Sustainable Livelihoods & Enterprises
- 191 youth trained in 2 years (75% women and girls)
- 600+ community members reached
- Training & residential centres established
- 10 small enterprises launched
- Production Incubation Centre created, enabling trainees to execute real market orders
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