The document defines life skills as the abilities that allow individuals to effectively handle the demands of everyday life according to the WHO and UNICEF. Life skills education aims to develop knowledge, attitudes, and skills in areas like problem solving, decision making, critical thinking, communication, self-awareness, and stress management. It strengthens individuals' ability to evolve and act with self-confidence. The Dakar Framework also emphasizes education should enable learning to know, do, live together, and be - referring to developing reasoning, human functional capabilities, social skills, and self-management skills. The overall goal is to help youth through early identification of problems and building self-image, well-being, and dimensions of human development.

1. Dhaneswar Behera
P.G students
Ravenshaw University, Cuttack

2. What is life skill ?
 WHO (1997)
– “the abilities for adaptive and positive behavior
that enables individuals to deal effectively with the
demands and challenges of everyday life”
UNICEF (2001)
 “life-skills based education is
-behavior change or behavior development
approach
-designed to address a balance of three areas:
 knowledge, attitude, and skills.

3.  Early identification of problems, early
intervention and support at key moments in
lives of young people is vital.
 Develop the positive attitude towards
themselves and others.
 Development of psychosocial abilities.
 To enhance capabilities and enlarge choices.
 To build different dimensions of well-being, by
building self-image & self-worth, which in turn
help individuals to be less vulnerable to the
variations within a given context.

4. World Education Forum, 2000
Dakar Framework For Action
“the human right to benefit from an education
that will meet their(youth’s) basic learning
needs in the best and fullest sense of the term,
an education that includes learning to know, to
do, to live together and to be”
Life Skills Approach strengthens the ability of an
individual to evolve, developing self-confidence
and power to act, without being restricted to a
single hands on skill.

5. 1. Problem-Solving
2. Decision Making
3. Critical Thinking
4. Creative Thinking
5. Communication Skills
6. Self-Awareness
7. Stress Management
8. Empathy
9. Interpersonal Relationship
10.Coping with Emotion

7. Learning to Know: Developing Reasoning It
relates to cognitive life skills such as critical thinking, problem solving and
decision making skills. It thus refers to both the acquisition of knowledge as
well as the use of knowledge.
Learning to Do: Functioning and Capabilities
It refers to central human functional capabilities of “Life”,
“Bodily Health”, “Bodily Integrity” and “Control over one’s
Environment”
Learning to Live Together: Building Potential
Through Social Capital It relates to communication
skills, Negotiation skills, Refusal skills, Assertiveness skills,
Interpersonal skills, Co-operation skills & Empathy skills
Learning to Be: Enhancing Agency It relates to self-management
life skills related to self awareness, self esteem &
self confidence, and coping skills .

8. Today’s Youth Tomorrow's Wealth

11. If everyone is moving forward together, then
success takes care of itself. Henry Ford