AISECT, one of India’s leading Social Enterprise working towards an inclusive change in India’s semi-urban and rural parts, has been shortlisted as one of the 12 finalists for the 2021 WISE Awards with the projects – hailing from nine countries. AISECT has made to the finalists’ lists for its project titled “Entrepreneurship Development and Skilling initiatives for the Underprivileged Women”.

The project was nominated because of the inclusive approach towards skilling and creating employment through both skill development as well as entrepreneurship development for underprivileged women. It has benefited more than 400,000 women beneficiaries through employment linked skill development training, as well as 2000 women beneficiaries through entrepreneurship development and by helping them in setting up their businesses in tribal, rural and semi-urban parts of India.

AISECT, through its all-inclusive pro-women project, taken a two pronged approach in the project for making women independent. AISECT has been imparting vocational education through placement linked skilling especially for girls in trades more apt and flexible  for  them,  to  ensure  better  livelihood  options  aiming  at  financial independence. It also fosters Entrepreneurship among underprivileged Women by helping them set up multipurpose centres specially in service sector and continuously hand hold them till they are sustainable and financially sustainable.

These services allow the centres to be economically viable, by involving the whole community. More than 2 thousand underprivileged women entrepreneurs have emerged from the program, accounting for the employment of 5,000 people today.