Southern Regional Office: Bengaluru

Project Sankalp

Sponsor

Standard Chartered Bank

Location (State)

10 locations Tamil Nadu & Karnataka

Duration

June 2024

Objective

  • Project ‘Sankalp’ focuses on building strengths of rural women in selected 10 locations of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu states through Skill-based Entrepreneurship Development programs.
  • 700 rural and semi-urban women will be trained and handheld through Micro Skillpreneurship Development Programs (MSDP) over a period of 15 months.

Impact

  • 33 New Enterprises created.
  • 18 FSSAI Registrations accomplished.

Project AASHRAY

Sponsor

Kone Elevators

Location (State)

Nashik and Pune in Maharashtra

Objective

  • To understand the socio-economic conditions of the PwD target groups in identified locations in Maharashtra.
  • Develop PwD as entrepreneurs and scale up their enterprises.

Impact

  • 181 beneficiaries were covered and 99 enterprises registered on the Udyam Aadhar portal.

Project SPARK

Sponsor

Xiaomi

Location (State)

Mumbai, Pune and Bengaluru

Objective

  • Empower youth with technical backgrounds, to acquire skills, competencies and knowledge to succeed in employment or in entrepreneurship.

Impact

  • 20 Skill Development Programmes (SDPs) completed.
  • 201 new enterprises created.

Nirmal Project

Department

Corporate

Location (State)

Telangana

Beneficiaries Trained as on Date

338

Objective

  • To promote a spirit of enterprise, self-dependence and confidence among women through an entrepreneurship development program

Swavalambane phase-2 Programme

Sponsor

NSRCEL, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bengaluru

Location (State)

142 founders across Karnataka

Objective

  • Develop women-led enterprises
  • Ensure the increased revenue of businesses by atleast 15%.
  • Enable Businesses to credit access from formal financial institutions.
  • Provide customized handholding or mentoring support.
  • Aim for a nationwide reach and equip Businesses with knowledge of global business strategies.

Impact

  • 142 founders supported in terms of procuring necessary registrations like; Udyam , FSSAI, Artisan card registration, etc.
  • Founder –Buyer Meet-up conducted with around 60 + stalls, resulting in networking and sales enquiries estimated to be more than 2-5 lacs INR.

Project ‘Revitalizing Innovation for Sustainable Enterprises’ (RISE)

Sponsor

IDBI Bank

Location (State)

Kashipur (Odisha), Kamrup (Assam) and Dehradun (Uttarakhand)

Objective

  • Promote the spirit of enterprise, self-dependence and confidence among 2340+ rural and peri-urban women and young community members through Entrepreneurship Awareness Programmes.
  • Provide Technology based enterprise development training to 1050+ youth at selected locations, over three years.
  • Scale up competencies and skills of 932+ youth & women through Enterprise Growth Programme (EGP) over three years.
  • Work towards economic and social development of rural and peri-urban women and youth.
  • Create sustainable employment and income-generation activity through training on Technology for rural women and youth.

Impact

  • Dehradun: 17 group enterprises created.

  • Kashipur: 10 Group Enterprises created.

  • Kamrup: 85 individual enterprises created.

Micro Skillpreneurship Development Programme

Sponsor

Accenture Solution
Private Limited

Location (State)

Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand

Objective

  • Empowering rural youth & women by providing skill & Enterprise creation training through sustainable technology and business models.
  • Creating at least 70 % of micro-enterprises out of total trained women.
  • Promoting socio-economic development through livelihood creation, employment generation, asset creation and revenue generation on a sustainable basis.
  • Promoting financial autonomy, particularly among women and local youths.
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Impact

  • 556 trainings completed.
  • 28058 Beneficiaries trained.
  • 20740 enterprises set up.

Micro Skillpreneurship Development Programme

Sponsor

Accenture Solution
Private Limited

Location (State)

Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat , Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Puducherry, Rajastan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and West Bengal

Objective

  • To uplift, empower, and enhance the businesses of rural women entrepreneurs by providing market access, networking opportunities and business improvement resources, resulting in increased income.
  • Focus is on five pillars to provide various services to rural women entrepreneurs. These include:
    1. Market Access
    2. Business Development
    3. Product Development
    4. Access to Finance
    5. Technology

Impact

  • 16,000 women members enrolled
  • 146 Exhibitions conducted.
  • 18 Website design and development ensured.
  • 114 new products developed.
  • 120 Statutory Compliances met.

Project Handmade in India (HMI) – I

Sponsor

HSBC

Location (State)

Bhuj (Gujarat), Surendranagar (Gujarat), Maheswar (Madhya Pradesh), Bargarh (Odisha), Kamrup (Assam), Salem  (Tamilnadu)

Objective

  • Project Handmade in India was aimed at nurturing the handloom tradition of six clusters across Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Odisha and Tamil Nadu. Kamrup, Bargarh, Maheshwar, Bhuj, Surendranagar and Salem.

Impact

  • Nearly 5249 Beneficiaries enrolled.
  • Completed 2625 Interventions and Programme under 06 Key result areas.
  • ₹ 43,84,89,445/- sales achieved.
  • Total of ₹ 7,25,77,092/- (7.25 crores) loans disbursed to 998 beneficiaries under various schemes.
  • 889 New Enterprises Established and 02 Registered with Cooperative Society.
  • 562 New designs, 175 Motif Designs and 298 product lines developed.
  • 948 Udyog Aadhaar Memorandum (UAM) Registration Completed.
  • 151 Product catalogues developed.
  • 1705 Digital Accounts (UPI) created.
  • 1438 Social Media Accounts Created.
  • 2591 Artisan Card / Pechan Card distributed.
  • 51 Websites /Blogs developed.
  • 274 Handloom Mark registration achieved.
  • 20 National & State Awards accorded to weavers.

Project Handmade in India (HMI) – II

Sponsor

HSBC

Location (State)

Bhuj (Gujarat), Erode (Tamil Nadu)

HandMade in India (HMI) – II is the newly signed project in July 2024 for the year 2024-27 (three years) sponsored by HSBC. The project will be implemented in Bhuj and Erode location and aims to benefit over 1000 weavers and artisans through capacity-building in natural dyes, market linkages, engagement of designer, creating market linkages, product development, participating in exhibitions and seminars, and linking to government schemes dedicated to the handloom sector to grow weaves and improve their livelihood and entrepreneurship sessions.

Project Handmade in India was aimed at nurturing the handloom tradition of six clusters across Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Assam, Odisha and Tamil Nadu. Kamrup, Bargarh, Maheshwar, Bhuj, Surendranagar and Salem.

Project Aarohan

Sponsor

TATA Power, Mundra

Location (State)

Villages of Mundra & Mandvi – Moti Khakhar, Mota Bhadiya, Bidada, Gundiyali, Modhva, Sukhpar Timbo, Tragadi, Shekhai Bag

Objective

  • An initiative dedicated to empowering artisans, farmers and fishermen residing in the Mundra and Mandvi regions of Kutch, Gujarat.
  • EDII, as an implementation partner, is training and handholding beneficiaries.

Impact

  • 120 artisans trained
  • 03 enterprises created
  • 03 new brands created
  • 22 artisan cards made
  • 05 exhibitions conducted
  • Awards & accolades for the artisans on different platforms
  • Enhanced revenues & profits of the artisans

Micro Skillpreneurship Development Programmes
(MSDPs)

Sponsor

HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited)

Location (State)

Chikkaballapur, Kolar, Bangalore Rural (Karnataka)

Impact

  • Increase of income by 10%, of the target beneficiaries
  • Socio-economic development of the BPL families.
  • Results will be visible in terms of employment generation, economic growth and social development.
  • 800 Enterprises to be promoted by March 2026.