SkillPro Foundation Key Issues and
Operational Areas, Major Activiities & Achivements
Operational Districts: Adilabad, Anantapur, Chittoor, Y.S.R., East Godavari, Guntur, Hyderabad, Karimnagar, Khammam, Krishna, Kurnool, Mahbubnagar, Medak, Nalgonda, Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore, Nizamabad, Prakasam, Rangareddy, Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam, Vizianagaram, Warangal, West Godavari,Patna,Durg,Kheda, Rajkot, Vadodara, Valsad,Bilaspur, Kangra, Kinnaur, Kullu,Ranchi,Dhar,Mumbai, Nashik,Chennai,Bageshwar, Tehri Garhwal, Udham Singh Nagar
Operational States: ANDHRA PRADESH, BIHAR, CHHATTISGARH, GUJARAT, HIMACHAL PRADESH, JHARKHAND, MADHYA PRADESH, MAHARASHTRA, TAMIL NADU, UTTARAKHAND
AchieveMents: Promoted by a group of development professionals, SkillPro Foundation focuses on the issues in sectors like Education and Livelihoods in rural and urban areas.
SkillPro is engaged in:
ââ¬Â¢Skill training for varied categories of people in vocational skills
ââ¬Â¢Conceptualizing, operationalizing and implementing large scale development programmes, both in urban and rural areas
ââ¬Â¢Development and dissemination of quality training material, reference material, training manuals, modules and toolkits
ââ¬Â¢Large scale research, impact assessment studies, planning, monitoring and evaluation assignments
ââ¬Â¢Creative communication, documentation and designing with Emphasis on use of participatory approaches in all its activities
ââ¬Â¢Capacity building and training
With its headquarters at Hyderabad SkillPro has been working in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat,Maharashtra, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Chattisgarh and union territory of Dadra Nagar and Haveli.
Livelihoods (Skill Training)
Skill training centres of SkillPro has a competitive team with excellence in implementing large scale skill development programs. This skill training focuses on people with minimum educational qualification (class VII and above) with no skills and employability. They are trained for 3-4 months, in the trade, based on their aptitude and would be prepared for entry level jobs. Here, the focus is on subject specific content delivery, practical sessions, on the job training and development of soft skills. It would also include linking them to employers for apprenticeship or on the job training. Salient features of skill training programs of SkillPro include:
ââ¬Â¢Initiated 8 centres across Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Dadar & Nagar Haveli
ââ¬Â¢Focus on new and emerging sectors like IT enabled services, customer relations management, sales and marketing, bed side nursing, automobile repairs etc
ââ¬Â¢Focus on soft skills with in addition to technical skills
ââ¬Â¢Short term, 3-4 month courses
Training, Research and Capacity Building
Developing various monitoring and evaluation frameworks, conducting studies like market scan, impact assessment of various developmental projects, developing various training modules and training and capacity building activities across the development spectrum are few of the key activities underaken by SkillPro. These ranges from issues pertaining to livelihoods, watershed, behavioral change, education, Panchayati Raj Institutions, local self governance, gender etc. Few of the research and capacity building assignments conducted by SkillPro include:
ââ¬Â¢End Term Evaluation of Green Post Tsunami Action Project for Humana People to People India
ââ¬Â¢Training Modules on Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation for Aide et Action
ââ¬Â¢Impact Assessment of Watershed in Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh for NIRD, Hyderabad
ââ¬Â¢Evaluation of Watershed in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh for NIRD, Hyderabad
ââ¬Â¢Evaluation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Program (NREGA)in Chittoo, Andhra Pradesh
ââ¬Â¢Monitoring tools to track behavioral changes at the village level for UNICEF
ââ¬Â¢Training of Trainers Related to Component-I of the Andhra Pradesh Community Based Tank Management Project
ââ¬Â¢Preparation of 26000 hours of e-Lessons for Polytechnics for Department of Technical Education, Andhra Pradesh