PRERNA – Vocational & Life Skills Training
PRERNA focused on market-driven vocational and life-skills training for disadvantaged and marginalised youth, including young women and girls, particularly in poor rural and urban communities.
Programmes & Our Work
Programmes, Initiatives & Our Work
SEWAK has worked across skill development, livelihoods, women empowerment, youth development, community development and public-service delivery since 2005. Below is a record of our programmes and initiatives.
Featured ProgrammeCurrent Initiative · 2025–26
Swayam Siddha
Women Empowerment Initiative
Swayam Siddha is SEWAK's most recent initiative, focused on empowering economically weaker and marginalised women in urban slums and semi-urban areas. The programme combines awareness, skill training and capacity building to create pathways to livelihood and financial independence.
Approximately 800 women directly reached during 2025–26
Focus: Economically weaker and marginalised women in urban slums and semi-urban areas
Programme Components
- Women's awareness and orientation programmes
- Financial literacy and digital inclusion
- Entrepreneurship development
- Basic skill training
- Capacity-building workshops
- Awareness camps in urban slums and semi-urban areas
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Skill Development & Vocational Training
SEWAK's core area of work — vocational training, job-oriented skills, soft skills, assessment, certification, placement and livelihood linkage across multiple government schemes and institutional partnerships.
SANKALP – Skills for Marginalised Youth
SANKALP focused on skill development and sustainable livelihoods for marginalised youth, especially in rural and underserved communities, with inclusion of women and persons with disabilities where applicable.
META PRO – Career & Job-Oriented Training
META PRO was a career and job-oriented training initiative for IT students and candidates facing educational gaps, career gaps, low academic scores, low confidence or weak technical skills.
WCD Bihar – Women Skill Development
In collaboration with Women & Child Development, Bihar, SEWAK delivered skill development programmes for women with a focus on employment and self-employment orientation.
IT Bihar – Digital Skills for Youth
The IT Bihar initiative focused on digital and IT skills for unemployed youth, building capacity for the digital economy.
DDU-GKY Sagarmala – Rural Youth & Maritime Skills
A DDU-GKY project focusing on rural youth and training related to maritime, port and logistics sectors, with industry linkage and employment support.
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Adolescent & Youth Development
Programmes focused on building the capacity, confidence and life skills of young people and adolescent girls, enabling them to contribute to their communities and access better opportunities.
AAG – Action for Adolescent Girls
AAG was an adolescent-girls empowerment initiative, particularly focused on out-of-school girls in marginalised communities.
Saksham – Youth Capacity Building
Saksham was a youth and adolescent capacity-building initiative focused on life skills, leadership, community participation and enabling young people to contribute to local development.
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Livelihoods & Community Development
SEWAK's livelihood and community development work supports poor and marginalised communities through access to skills, enterprise support, farmers' collectives and government scheme convergence.
Livelihood Promotion
A programme category focused on creating livelihood opportunities for poor and marginalised communities through skill training, enterprise support and government scheme convergence.
Gram Vikas Yatra – Village Development
SEWAK's village-level community development initiative, combining community consultation, environmental awareness and practical development activities.
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Governance & Public Service Delivery
Initiatives designed to make government services more accessible, transparent and efficient for citizens.
Samadhan Ek Din Mein – Jan Suvidha Kendra
A public-service and governance initiative designed to bring government services under one roof, reducing delays and dependence on intermediaries.
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Institutional Collaborations
SEWAK has collaborated with national institutions and industry bodies to deliver skill development programmes aligned with industry, startup and enterprise requirements.
MSME Technology Development Centre Collaboration
Collaboration with IGTR Indore and PPDC Meerut for counselling and training youth according to industry, startup and enterprise requirements.
CFTI – Central Footwear Training Institute Collaboration
Collaboration with Central Footwear Training Institute (CFTI), Chennai, for grassroots delivery of skill-development programmes including PMKVY and PM Vishwakarma.
NSDC-AMBER Project
AMBER was a major skill-development and employment initiative under NSDC, with RPL/assessment work and employability and certification support.
Government & Institutional Programmes
Government Scheme Experience
SEWAK has experience associated with a range of government and institutional skill-development schemes. References below indicate areas of experience and do not imply current partnership or authorisation unless supported by current documentation.
NSDC STARPMKVY / PMKVY 2.0 / PMKVY 4.0DDU-GKYMPSSDMUPSDMNULMNRLMGoa Skill Development MissionJharkhand Skill Development MissionYouva Swabhiman Yojna (M.P.)MPTB TrainingMAPCETOBC TrainingMinority TrainingNSDC CIO ProjectSuryamitraMAEFPM Vishwakarma
References above indicate areas of experience. They do not imply current partnership or authorisation unless supported by current documentation.
Partner with SEWAK on a Programme
Whether you are a government body, CSR partner, institution or community organisation, SEWAK can work with you to design and implement effective programmes.