Aide et Action

(Institute for Livelihood Education and Development)

iLEAD Institute for Livelihood, Education and Development (i LEAD) is a major program of Aide et Action for promoting market oriented employability and entrepreneurship training targeted at youth from economically weakest category. The flexibility and demand driven approach ensures that the program is modified to suit local context. It is not the unavailability of employment opportunities but the lack of skills amongst the drop out youth which leads to unemployment. iLEAD bridges the gap between the Market demand and the unemployed drop out youth.

Project Objectives:

	To create entry level employment opportunities for marginalised youth, focusing especially on youth from economically weakest sections
	To bring about a reduction in the number of people living below the poverty line in the intervention area
	To enhance and provide necessary inputs for personality development, life skills and forward and backward linkages for the trained youth for sustainability of the efforts and better quality of life
	To help trained youths, having exceptional aptitude and interest, emerge as successful entrepreneurs and catalysts for generating more employment opportunities, and
	To advocate for adoption of similar approaches in private and state run training programmes focusing on employability and entrepreneurship opportunities



Strategy:

	Program would include a regular interface with local business, industrial and other potential employers for course development, training methodology, placements and building backward and forward linkages
	Focus would be on ensuring social equity in project i.e. priority for inclusion of marginalized communities like dalits, tribals, landless, women, disabled persons etc. The project would aim to ensure that at least 80% of beneficiaries are from BPL families
	Project would have a major component on entrepreneurship development and progression of candidates to higher levels of income and responsibilities

	PROCESS





Different Trades

	Automobile Technology
	Hospitality Services
	Patient Care Assistance
	Beauty Care Assistance
	Refrigeration and AC Repair
	IT Enabled Services
	Sales and Marketing
	Dress Designing
	Desktop Publishing
	Skilled Mason
	Carpentry
	Motor rewinding and electrician
	Multi Purpose Agriculture Service Supplier
	Multi Purpose Veterinary Services Supplier
	Driving
	Secretarial Practices
	Mobile Phone Service and Repairs



Top recruiters of iLEAD candidates:

	Dealerships of Honda, Bajaj, Hero Honda, Yamaha, TVS
	ITC Welcome group
	Shyaam group of Hotels
	Nokia
	EXIDE Bat-Mobile
	Sparsh.com
	Pricol auto equipments
	Roots auto parts
	Texmo Motors
	Wipro BPO
	TATA BPO SerWizSol
	Pantaloons
	Shoppers Stop
	Pizza corner
	Dominos
	Pizza Hut
	Kentucky fried chicken (KFC)
	Sub Way chain of restaurants
	team4U a Ranstead company
	Café Coffee Day
	Java Green



iLEAD Parterships The impact of iLEAD has attracted various Government and other like minded agencies like INGOs, CSR initiatives of corporate etc. the collaborators towards implementation of iLEAD at various places :

	Government of India, under special projects of SGSY (Swarna jayanthi Gram Swarozgar Yojna) at Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Orissa
	Rajasthan mission on livelihoods (RMoL)
	Gujarat urban development mission (GUDM)
	Tribal development department, Govt of Gujarat
	Adivasi Kalyan Ayukth, Govt. of Jharkhand
	District Rural Development Agency, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
	Integrated Tribal Development Agency, Andhra Pradesh
	LANCO, Vijayawada
	International Labour Organisation – National child labour project, Andhra Pradesh
	Catholic Relief Services, Chennai and Hyderabad
	Tamilnadu Corporation for Development of Women Ltd.
	Café Coffee Day across Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad, Lucknow and Hyderabad



Achievements
	101 ilead centres across India and Sri Lanka
	Ilead maintains a placement rate of 90%
	22062 Candidates successfully completed training
	6950 Candidates presently undergoing training



Focus 2009

	Introduction of new courses relevant to rural and tribal areas
	iLEAD to be functional across 129 centers in 2008 and 150 centers by year 2009
	iLEAD would train a minimum of 55800 candidates in the year 2009
	Strengthening iLEAD cell with sectoral experts
	New sectors like Construction, Retailing, Agriculture and veterinary, Services etc.would be focused
	iLEAD would raise resources from Govt, corporate and other like minded agencies
	iLEAD would raise resources from a center level by way of HR fee, Candidates pay back, Sponsorships etc.
	iLEAD + a resource generating initiative offering part time courses for alumni and other working youth
	Capacity building of iLEAD faculty members on new and innovative teaching methodologies
	Promote “ entrepreneurship skills” as an extension from employability skills

Click here to find the SGSY Report (June 2008)