India - ActionAid
Place of the action: India
Title of the project in the original language: Securing rights and sustainable livelihoods through collective action and education for people dependent on the informal economy in India
Applicant: ActionAidAssociation
Total duration of the action: 48 months
Objective of the action: The overall aim of the action is to secure sustainable livelihoods and protect the social and economic rights of vulnerable people dependent on informal economy in 32 cities and 18 districts in 15 states of India. The specific objective is to secure sustainable livelihoods and protect the social and economic rights of vulnerable people dependent on informal economy in 14 states of India. Therefore, marginalised people in rural and urban areas dependent on the informal economy are empowered to access social protection and decent work
Beneficiaries: 100,000 marginalised people in rural and urban areas dependent on informal economy.
Expected results:
R1: Marginalised people dependent on informal economy have increased awareness of and better access to their socio-economic rights and entitlements relating to decent work
R2: People dependent on informal economy, particularly women and youth have the skills and capacity to access a wider range of livelihoods through skills building and vocational training
R3: Creation of knowledge base and information sharing platform to train civil society actors working with PIEs - people depending on the informal economy- and government officials for two-way linkages between grassroots work and policy level knowledge
Contact person: Sandhya.chellapilla@actionaid.org
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Show previous commentsGlad to see this detailed exchange, Anoop and ActionAid India!
On R2: How people dependent on informal economy are provided with Skills Training ? Action Aid is directly providing skills training or through some other arrangements? What type of Skills and assessment and certification is done for the informal economy dependent people? Thanks in advance !
Dear Anoop,
Heard about you from Mei.
In the skill development component, ActionAid is providng training in the follwoing two ways:
1. Through our implementing partners in the field, and
2. Through external training provider which can also be linked to our partners.
The skills set range from Women Taxi Driver's trianing, Bee Keeping, House Keeping, Masonary, Helath Hygiene/Cooking/CR to Stree Vendors, Sewing Machine Operators, Sozni work to Home Based Women Workers, Security Guard, Pharmacist to Beauty & Wellness. And they are certified by the Sector Skill Council of NSDC, State Govt. Certification and Foundation certificates.
Would like to learn about your work too. Thanks
Thanks Sushant for the information ! I just wanted to know if Action Aid is directly providing training or through recognised training providers. It seems it is a combination of both and hence certificates are of three types. The foundational certificates must be for those where training is of very short duration and must be meant to enhanace the existing livelihood buisnesses of the informal economy workers.
I am mostly into research, evaluation and capacity development activities in the labour and employment, TVET and informal economy sector.
Thanks again for your information.
Yes Anoop, it's a combination of both. But what do you mean when you say that certificates are of three types?
Hi Sushant
You had mentioned in your post the following:
(a) trainees are certified by Sector Skill Council of NSDC, State Govt. Certification and Foundation certificates and (b) trainings are conducted by both Action Aid and External Training Providers - either NSDC-SSC or State Government.
We all know that state government in India are mostly implementing centrally sponsored schemes which issue either SSC certificates or NCVT-MES certificates. In some cases even now too, the training prviders issue their own instiution certiciate. If we include action-aid trainings, then I assume that these trainings will be failry short duration (1 week to 1month or even less) to the informal economy workers and hence action-aid may be issuing its own certificates.
Taking into account above i shared earlier that certification are of three types - SSC, NCVT and Action -Aid or Training Instutues self-certifcation.
May please calrify if I am wrong.
True Anoop, but a trianing for a informal workers' child would be for a longer duraiton.
Thank you.
Glad to see this detailed exchange, Anoop and ActionAid India!
Anoop, I have just arrived in Delhi and will ask the ActionAid staff to respond to you. In any case, I will be blogging on their activities as I spend the next week with them. Sorry you are not in Delhi so that we could also meet in person. Hopefully another time.
Mei I am in Delhi since last week. I had sent you a mail. I am here till 16th of March.
Glad we were able to meet, Anoop.
Thank you Mei for your time. I am glad too to meet you and understand the wonderful work that you are doing in India and as lead speciliast of IESF.
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