Case Studies  

City & Guilds, over the years, has worked with countries, communities and social groups to enhance livelihood through skilling. We, at IndiaSkills, have repeated the same successfully in India. In the following lines, you can get to know a few snapshots of how we have worked with such entities and enabled transformation

Empowering the Oppressed Communities

IndiaSkills has partnered with a State Government’s Scheduled Caste/Schedule Tribes Development body to skill and employ deserving youth. With an aim of enhancing livelihood with productive vocational skills training, the development body chose IndiaSkills as a preferred training partner. The partnership, an example for other such bodies, is going ahead in full steam.

World class skills for youth from slums

In a first of its kind partnership, a social contributor from a Metro city got together with IndiaSkills to train, certify and employ 1000 youth from the slums of the city. The ongoing project is already a huge success with the first three batches of students having got job opportunities with leading companies like Reliance Retail, Shoppers Stop etc

In Afghanistan- Offering hope amidst the war

As Afghanistan features in news bulletins as ravaged by war, it is easy to forget the fiercely proud artistic heritage that once formed the backbone of its economy. The Turquoise Mountain Institute for Afghan Arts & Architecture, a City & Guilds accredited institute, is slowly building hope. Through such skills-based education, C&G works with the youth to ensure that they have access to a brighter future for the country.

The Ghana Story – Empowering women, Enriching communities

Farming communities in Ghana were facing increasingly difficult production and market conditions. They urgently needed both agricultural and enterprise skills to improve their livelihoods and to help them make the most of changing circumstances. City & Guilds CSD worked in Ghana to identify ways to help women farmers and smallholders in poorer parts of the world benefit from training. CSD's research showed that training women can had a large impact on productivity and a positive effect on communities