Alternative Skills and Livelihood Need and Opportunity for the Tea Tribe1 and Adivasi Women to Mitigate Environment and Climate Change Impacts in Assam: A Pilot Study

India’s economy heavily depends on tea, with the state of Assam being the world’s top producer of black tea. Millions of people’s lives depend on the tea industry. There is a dearth of documentation that offers thorough spatial insights into the alternative livelihoods, in case their conventional source of livelihoods like tea plucking are threatened,…

Digital for Rural Women Entrepreneurs Assam Multi-Stake Holders Consultation Report

The conference, Enabling Rural Women from Livelihood to Entrepreneurship: Challenges & Opportunities focussed on rural women’s entrepreneurship Assam was organised by the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and Council for Social and Digital Development (CSDD), and North East Development Foundation (NEDF), at NEDFi campus on 16th November, 2022, Guwahati, Assam. The goal of the consultation was…

‘ICT Enabled Rural Women Entrepreneurship Development in Assam and West Bengal: Challenges, Scope and Opportunities’

It seeks to increase Female Labour Force Participation Rate (FLPFR) by building a sustainable entrepreneurship environment for rural women from Assam and West Bengal to thrive and succeed in existing and new Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) which are inclusive, technology enabled and environmentally sustainable. Read More

Skill Yatra

The Skill Yatra Phase 2 is an extension of Skill Yatra Phase 1 Pilot Project which started last year in the month of September 2023, Flagged off on 8th September, 2023 by the Honourable Chief Minister of Assam Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma. The Project Sponsored by the Assam Skill Development Mission (ASDM), Implementation by a…