EFSI's Project on Social Dialogue and Youth Employment
Members: 723
EFSI recently partnered with the ILO to conduct the project: Implementing the Skills Training Activities for Youth in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu, India.
- Affiliation
- Employers' Organization
- Date of Establishment
- 2009
- Contact No.
- (+91) 11 24602101
- Address
Mr Anandan Menon, Programme Assistant, ILO-New Delhi Office, India Habitat Centre, Core 4B, 3rd Floor, Lodhi Road, New Delhi, 110 003, India
- Email Address
- anandan@ilo.org
- Website
- http://www.efsi.org.in/index.html
1. Source of funding
Norwegian Government
2. Mission and objectives
To empower youth to secure decent work through skills training, apprenticeships and entrepreneurship.
1. To generate data on the youth employment situation in Kancheepuram;
2. To increase the social dialogue between youth, government and employers; and
3. To improve the skills of youth to help them secure decent work.
3. Areas of work relating to youth employment
Skills, employability and social dialogue
4. Partners and areas of partnership
ILO, Council of Indian Employers, Southern India Mills' Association, Karnataka Employers' Association, State Governments of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka
5. Potential or existing partnership with the ILO
ILO was an implementing partner of this project.
6. Successful youth employment interventions
Implementing the Skills Training Activities for Youth in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu, India: Conduct a situational analysis; facilitate social dialogue between government, workers' and employers' representatives; provide skills training, apprenticeships, entrepreneurship training and certification; and finally to provide equipment donations to training centres.