Meha Dalvi Roll No 18

PGPDM- B21
Basics of Project Management
Individual assignment
Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trusts Women Empowerment Project

While everyone has been adversely impacted, for women, in India, the challenge
has been worse who have lost the only earning members in their family.
This Project proposes to empower women by providing skill based livelihoods
training ensuring economic independence of 200 women adversely impacted due to
the covid pandemic. The women will be trained in BPO- Business Process
Outsourcing, BFS- Banking and Finance Service, and Beautician Courses.
These courses have been selected for training women considering the employability
in the city of Mumbai.
Only selected interested women will be considered for the course who will be
willing to complete the course. These women would be from underprivileged
background who have been adversely impacted due to the covid pandemic.
Attendance in the course will be compulsory to ensure quick and efficient
placement/ initiation of business.

Objectives –
 To train 250 women in livelihoods training and provide relevant placements
 To ensure at least 70% of women get placements/ open their businesses post
course completion
 Providing funds to start new business
 To improve their standard of living and making them independent

Goals –
 To train 250 girls and women in BPO- Business Process Outsourcing, BFS-
Banking and Finance Service, Beauty skills, Spoken English and
Personality development training by end of March 2024

Career Oriented Training -

 The objective of this project is to empower women economically so they
can support themselves and their families in these tough times. Therefore,
only a selected few courses- BFS, BPO, Cyber Security and Beautician have
been recommended to ensure jobs post training. The courses will provide
proficiency & exposure to technologies/concepts of the various industries,
and therefore, prepare beneficiaries for employment opportunities.

 The training will be holistic in nature. Skills training will be provided

complemented with English and personality development sessions too.
Interview skills, presenting one’s self during an interview, grooming etc will
also be done. Each course module will be holistic and complete in nature
ensuring jobs placement.
Criteria to enrol in training-
 COVID affected women (Widowed and in need women)
  Women aged between 18 to 35years old
Project Methodology-
1. Beneficiary mobilisation
1. Potential beneficiaries will be selected through field visits, interviews,
surveys and focused group meetings. This will be held in communities,
slums, etc. Word will be spread through posters & announcements too.
Extensive community visits, phone calls etc. will also be made for the same.
2. Mobilisation will be a critical step in the project as only those women will be
selected who have been adversely impacted and who are interested and keen
to attend the course and then take up a job. Each and every beneficiary will be
selected after a thorough background check and in-depth interview.
3. Situational analysis will be done based on the data collected. The data analysis
will help in understanding the issues being addressed and will enable us to
make informed decisions while implementing the project.

2. Enrolment and conducting courses

1. The women will be enrolled in different courses. Each course is for about 3
months.
2. Attendance parameters will be discussed
3. Timings of each course will be held to ensure that women attend the course,
and complete the stipulated hours of training

3. Assured placement
Before the onset of project, a list of all industries/ companies/ organisations will
be made. Discussion will be initiated; rapport will be built with them explaining
the purpose of our project. This will be coupled with making CVs, conducting
mock interviews, etc.
4. Monitoring and Evaluation- Each course will be monitored on a daily basis.
This will be undertaken by Ratna Nidhi Managers. Monitoring parameters will
include
1. Daily monitoring for attendance
2. Learning undertaken by each woman. Providing additional assistance to
women for skilling if required
3. Counselling support will be provided to women to ensure they attend the
course without any other issues
4. Post placement, RNCT will hand hold women for at least 2 months. Women
beginning their own business will be mentored.

5. Expected impact of skills training-

1. Vocational training courses will help them to learn new skills and become
employable, which will help to contribute to their family’s income and
economic growth of the country.
2. Provide opportunities to start their own business
3. Enable good physical and mental health
4. Enhance productivity and create a need for ambition
Project Timeline-
Month
December January February March April May
Sr.
No CategoriesWeek Activities
Identification
week 1
of to
1 beneficiariesweek 2 Calling potential beneficiaries
Conducting interviews & selecting
candidates
Document collection
Enrolment & document collection
Meeting will be with stake
holders and shareholders, How
the courses will be conducted,
importance of participation,
Project Kickoff Expectations from participants,
2 meeting week 3 Course structure will be explained
Courses Batch 1- Batch 1- Batch 1- Project
3 commenced week 4 Batch 1- Beautician Beautician Beautician Beautician Report
Batch 2- Batch 2- Batch 2-
Batch 2- BPO BPO BPO BPO
Batch 3- Batch 3- Batch 3-
Batch 3- BFS BFS BFS BFS

WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE (WBS)