The programme aims at putting increasing emphasis on enhancing the skills of workforce in general and women in particular for enhancing employability, entrepreneurship and to facilitate for decent employment.

The programme aims to sensitize the participants about the changing nature of employment, the inequalities arising out of these changes and the need for social protection. It would enable participants to understand the international standards and existing legal instruments as well as some global best practices in order to promote workers’ rights, based on a model of social justice.

The programme aims at equipping the participants with the context of recent Labour reforms and labour codes.

To enhance personal and collective skills needed for effective leadership by way of experiential learning for individual and group leadership.

The programme aims at equipping managers and representatives of trade unions with positive attitudes and skills through experiential learning for organizational development.

Migration is one of the defining features of the contemporary world of work and is integral to the process of social and economic development. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development provides for a strong link between decent work and migration in Sustainable Development Goal 8 (SDG) of promoting ‘sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all’. The huge potential contribution of labour migration to an inclusive development process can be fully harnessed only if there is a nuanced understanding of the emerging forms and nature of labour flows, on the one hand, and their impacts and implications at the micro and macro levels in the sending and receiving regions, on the other. This programme aims at aims at developing the capacities of researchers and policymakers towards explicating the emerging issues in migration, especially in terms of research and policy concerns.