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Creating employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for underprivileged women through skilling, market linkage and entrepreneurial development leading to job creation and improved quality of life
Disha is a partnership between UNDP and the India Development Foundation, supported by IKEA Foundation, that aims to support one million underprivileged women in India learn marketable skills and connect with income opportunities. The Disha project helps women become economically self-sufficient through training, employment and entrepreneurial skill development; it tests innovative models of public-private partnership for scalability; and establishes a continuum that connects education with skills, jobs and growth.
The project aims to
- Touch the lives of 1 million women over a period of three years and establish a model for broad-based replication.
- Provide women and girls with the skills and knowledge that will help them secure employment or start their own businesses.
- Support the Government of India’s flagship skill development initiatives through policy, research and development support services.
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