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:
•Skill training for varied categories of people in vocational skills
•Conceptualizing, operationalizing and implementing large scale development programmes, both in urban and rural areas
•Development and dissemination of quality training material, reference material, training manuals, modules and toolkits
•Large scale research, impact assessment studies, planning, monitoring and evaluation assignments
•Creative communication, documentation and designing with Emphasis on use of participatory approaches in all its activities
•Capacity building and training
With its headquarters at Hyderabad SkillPro has projects and assignments in Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Bihar, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra 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:
•Initiated 8 centres across Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Dadar & Nagar Haveli
•Focus on new and emerging sectors like IT enabled services, customer relations management, sales and marketing, bed side nursing, automobile repairs etc
•Focus on soft skills with in addition to technical skills
•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:
•End Term Evaluation of Green Post Tsunami Action Project for Humana People to People India
•Training Modules on Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation for Aide et Action
•Impact Assessment of Watershed in Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh for NIRD, Hyderabad
•Evaluation of Watershed in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh for NIRD, Hyderabad
•Evaluation of National Rural Employment Guarantee Program (NREGA)in Chittoo, Andhra Pradesh
•Monitoring tools to track behavioral changes at the village level for UNICEF
•Training of Trainers Related to Component-I of the Andhra Pradesh Community Based Tank Management Project
•Preparation of 26000 hours of e-Lessons for Polytechnics for Department of Technical Education, Andhra Pradesh
Website: www.skillproindia.org
Email: admin@skillproindia.org
