To strengthen the understanding of gender issues in labour and raising awareness & effective implementation of social security measures.

To enhance organization building capacity of activists of Trade Union Leaders.

The programme aims at discussing the key features of labour codes which are important for all the stake-holders, all the more in the newly emerging labour and employment scenario in the country.

This programme seeks to create awareness and build knowledge of the participants towards providing legal services to the trafficked, forced and other victims of labour exploitation, during their post-rescue. The objective is also to discuss various
rehabilitation programmes and ways of their effective rehabilitation thereby ensuring the benefits of the schemes to the victims.

To enhance organisation building capacity of activists of fishery workers’ unions.

This programme aims at enhancing the capacities of the stakeholders in conceptualising, designing and implementing effective labour market and employment policies and undertaking monitoring and evaluation of such policies. The programme provides an opportunity for the participants to have intensive interface with renowned scholars and practitioners in the area of labour market and employment policies.

The course aims to provide a structural analysis of the complex relationships between informality, gendered relations of power and poverty. It also provides researchers with an enhanced understanding of qualitative and quantitative methods on gender, poverty and the informal economy. This course will be an opportunity to discuss and debate on the ongoing issues in conceptualizing and measuring poverty, women empowerment and gender.