WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT

PROJECT PROPOSAL ON WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT Name of the project – Enhancing employability through vocational training among women and girls in the village of Lucknow. Implementing Organization – ‘Society for advancement of resourceless by training and handholding SAMARTH’ Project coordination office – Lucknow Target Area – 20 Villages in Lucknow Target Group – Girls and Women Total cost of the project – 5 lakh Project focus – The focus of the project is to empower the girls and women to equip them with tools to become self- reliant through stitching and tailoring skill program. Project Detail – The project is designed to provide skills to girls and women with no prior knowledge in stitching. The project covers following activities:- • Providing 3 months vocational course in stitching. • Identification of teacher. • Training of teacher. • Identification of village. • Selection of place for center. • Identification of beneficiaries. • Enrollment of girls and women. • Set up of required material at center. Personal development of beneficiaries – It includes :-  Orientation of beneficiaries.  monthly conduct session on social issues at center.  exposure trips for the beneficiaries.  In each batch course completion certificate is also provided by us. ACHIEVEMENT TILL DATE:- Earlier vocational skill is provided in 20 villages of Lucknow and approximately 1000 girl and women beneficiaries have been directly trained in the entrepreneur ship development course since 12 September 2018. Some of them started stitching different types of blouses, suits and gowns. By doing this vocation they earn approx. 2000 - 4000 as additional income for their family needs. OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT- • To promote employment oriented vocation skills and training to the girls and women from the community. • To provide awareness on social issues to girls and women. • To encourage self-employment by providing related training and exposure visits. • To certify and to liaison with the trained institutes in order to strengthen training and placements opportunities for the trained girls and women. GOAL OF THE PROJECT- • Facilitating to identify and recognize the inherent skills and evolve alternative livelihood and employment opportunities based on available resources. • Building livelihood for women is one of the remarkable ideas for developing sustainability, improving household income and creating jobs in the village of the Lucknow. IMPACT OF THE PROJECT- The impact of the project will be :- • To empower girls and women from the community in basic stitching course. • Awareness and confidence of the women will be enhanced on social issues. • Women will be motivated to set up their own income generation units. • Women can avail benefit of government program as she will be in touch with local governance . • Young women will live life SUSTAINABILITY- • The project is a low cost model as it involves participation and involvement of various stakeholders. • Place for centre in the village is provided by the community without any charge. • The trained teachers will be encouraged to run their own stitching centre in the village on a partnership model in next two years. • Eventually the vision is to establish “SAMARTH” as a brand in next 3 years so that the women can earn on a sustained basis for themselves. A process will be made on how to establish “SAMARTH” as a brand this year and networking will be done with institutes and individual for the same. REPORTS TO BE PROVIDED BY THE ORGANISTION TO DONORS • 4 quarterly report • 2 half yearly report • 1 annual report NAME, DESIGANTION AND CONTACT DETAILS:- Aparna Pandey - Advocacy officer Email: aparna@samarth.org.in Contact no : 7388034449

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