Start-up Village Entrepreneurship Programme (SVEP), the sub-scheme under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Rural Livelihoods Mission (DAY NRLM) is being implemented with the objective of helping members of Self Help Groups (SHGs) to setup small enterprises in rural area under non-farm sector.
Women Entrepreneurs- Access Connect Transform (WeAct) is a one-stop platform for rural women entrepreneurs that provides them with handholding assistance to render their business competitive and sustainable.
The Indian handloom industry is one of the finest identities of the country, representing the country’s rich culture and heritage to the world. With its wide presence in the formal and the informal sectors, millions of people depend on it for a living.
Cottage and rural enterprises are important for economic growth. The sector is significant in terms of the employment it creates, the use of natural resources it facilitates, and the non-farm activities it generates.
EDII and Rajasthan Patrika have entered into a collaboration to jointly organize Entrepreneurship Development Programmes for emerging women entrepreneurs. Against the backdrop that entrepreneurship is the need-of-the-hour, especially among the women community, the two organizations have joined hands to institute meaningful, outcome-based programmes and bring the results and interventions before the society at large to earn a winning response for the development tool of entrepreneurship.
HCL Uday is HCL Technologies’ community development programme that aims at creating ‘green, clean and empowered societies.’ EDII and HCL Uday have joined hands to float the project HCL SATTVA with the aim of providing employment and livelihood opportunities to women,
Revitalizing and rehabilitating economies through entrepreneurship development has proved to be a tactical development strategy. Micro Entrepreneurship and Skill Development programmes have brought about pervasive changes on the landscape of rural India. EDII has been contributing significantly to enhancing the entrepreneurial and skill levels of rural populace.
17. The NABARD Karnataka regional office conducted an annual marketing event, ‘Grameena Habba,’ which provides rural artisans a platform to sell agricultural, handicraft, and handloom products in Bengaluru. The artisans under EDII and NABARD’s Parisar project set up their stall on environmental friendly straw
products.
Entrepreneurial performance can be enhanced through proper training and mentoring. Hence the importance of trainers in the discipline of ‘entrepreneurship’ holds immense significance. EDII, having evolved the module to create entrepreneurs, brainstormed on making the process sustainable, and thus developed the Trainers’ Training programmes to institute a cadre of trainers who could subsequently create entrepreneurs.
Empowering Women Entrepreneurs from the Grassroots to Global. At a time when women entrepreneurs are proving their mettle as entrepreneurs. International Conference on ‘Empowering Women Entrepreneurs from the Grassroots to Global was just apt to impart all the necessary push to their entrepreneurial spirit.
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