The document discusses creating sustainable livelihoods through urban and rural initiatives. The urban LABS program provides short-term skills training to unemployed youth to prepare them for jobs in emerging sectors, with a focus on placement and quality of life improvement. It has impacted over 300,000 individuals across 19 states. The rural LABS-F program helps farmers increase productivity and access technologies while skills training surplus rural youth for local jobs. It has reached over 7,000 farmers and placed 570 youth. Both programs aim to expand their impact over time.

1. Creating Sustainable Livelihoods

2. Livelihood Initiatives
Late Dr. Anji Reddy
“According to me, the most important thing for human beings is to earn a livelihood. My
aim in life is to create as many livelihoods as I can in my lifetime. Most importantly, the
livelihoods we create should be sustainable. These young people should grow-by the force
of their own confidence, effort and the training that we give, they should take wing and
fly. They should reach their potential.”

3. Introduction
Urban Livelihood Initiatives
Rural Livelihood Initiatives

4. Urban Livelihood Initiatives
LABS-Livelihood Advancement
Business School
•An effective short term skill
development training program
•Prepares youth for building a career in
emerging service sectors
•Core focus -Ensure placement
Improvement in quality of life
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5. People with Disability
LABS-Livelihood Advancement
Business School for People with
Disability
•Cater to orthopedic and hearing impaired
youth
•Work with Vocational Rehabilitation Center for
Handicapped and like –minded NGOs
•Provide training in ITES and BPO domain

6. LABS Process

7. Impact & Future Plans
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Impacted Livelihoods of approximately 3,00,000 youth
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Operational in over 75 centres across 19 States
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200+ Panel employers for placements
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Pioneers of the skill development program in the country
• In 2014 we intend to reach out to 25,000 underprivileged youth

8. Rural Livelihood Initiatives
Livelihood Advancement Business
School for Farmers ( LABSF)
•Help farmers overcome the challenges of low
agricultural productivity
•Enable them to gain access to ecological
sustainable and cost effective technologies
•Additionally identify surplus hands in the
rural economy ; skill them and link them to
local jobs

9. LABS–F Process
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The program is aimed at
o Enabling higher productivity and agricultural sustainability
o Transfer of small and appropriate technologies
o Reducing pressure on farms by skilling youth and placing them in jobs
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Most of these initiatives focus on
o low investment and medium to high returns
o large-scale dissemination of tested technologies

10. Key Learnings
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Simple solutions to rural poverty are already available in the same ecosystem.
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An investment of as low as Rs 1,200-1,500 can create an impact for a small/
marginalized family
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There is no need to stay in a place forever. Even two years are sufficient to reach
out to 50% of poverty-stricken families

11. Impact & Future Plans
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Catering to the resource-poor geographies of West Bengal, Chhattisgarh,
Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.
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Reached out to 7394 farmers
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570 rural youth skilled and placed with an average monthly salary of Rs 4,500
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Reach out to 25 projects by December 2014 through Rapid scaling from current 8
projects

12. Thank You