Building Capabilities for Rural Employability

Harsh Manglik, Chairman - IndiaGeography & Country Managing Director Accenture

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India is poised to become a global economic power

World’s biggest economies in 2025 by GDP

Source: EIU

(Real GDP at 1996 prices and at PPP)

1.1%Italy12

5.2%Indonesia11

4.0%South Korea10

2.0%France9

3.2%Russia8

3.3%Brazil7

2.4%UK6

1.9%Germany5

1.0%Japan4

6.1%India3

2.7%US2

6.1%China1

CAGR (2005-2025)

Source EIU

2.8%592339Australia

4.1%914413South Korea

2.7%945560Spain

3.4%1,045539Canada

2.9%1,139648Mexico

1.7%1,168836Italy

2.0%1,374917France

3.4%1,465757Brazil

1.2%1,5121,180Germany

2.4%1,7071,058United Kingdom

1.3%2,2911,780Japan

6.2%2,489749Russia

4.1%4,2641,924India

2.7%12,5127,335United States

8.0%14,5273,088China

CAGR20252005

Total private consumption at 1996 prices and at PPP*, US$ billion

*Purchasing power parity, 2005 estimate

Top 15 Consumer Markets in 2025

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...but India is a country full of contradictions

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India’s key asset is it’s young and large population. Education and Capability Building hold the key to deciding whether India will enjoy a Demographic Dividend or suffer a Demographic Deficit.

Sources: Aspen Institute, IndiaStat; Press

• India has 17% of the world population, but only 1,7% of world GDP

• India has a workforce of over 500 mn, with 94% working in the unorganized sector

• India has 600 mn illiterate people

• 240 mn live below the Government of India’s poverty line

• There are almost 3 mn graduates each year.

• Population with median age of about 23.

• Between the ages of six and sixteen there are today 325 million young people, two thirds in rural areas.

Opportunities Challenges

Population Pyramid in India

80 60 40 20 0 20 40 60 80

0-4

20-24

40-44

60-64

80-84

100+

80 60 40 20 0 20 40 60 80

0-4

15-19yrs

30-34

45-49

60-64

75-79

90-94

Female Millions

Source: US Census Bureau

Female Millions 2005

2025

India has 325 million youths aged between 6 and 15. In ten years these individuals will be aged 16-25 and looking for jobs. In the next 5 years alone, 75 million young people will be entering the workforce.

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India’s Capability Attainment Pyramid

The scale of India’s skills problem is such that a layered view of capabilities is required.

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ICT has already proven its power through a variety of initiatives:

Improved access to educationImproved access to healthcareImproved access to informationImproved employment and

business opportunities Improved access to commercial

products and servicesGreater accountability of

government and local bodiesImproved access to media and

entertainment

Key Characteristics of ICT-based solutions:

Replicable

Scalable

Cost-efficient

Consistency in quality

Reach across difficult terrain and

long distances

Responsive to a diversity of

cultures

Catalytic impact creating a

multiplier effect across industries

Information & Communication Technologies are key enablers for the inclusion of 600,000 villages into India’s growth story

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The government has initiated important programmes

Government of India Infrastructure

initiativesState Wide Area Network (SWAN):

SWANs are intended to extend data connectivity of two mega bits per second up to the block level in all States in the country. This will be further connected to all villages by wireless technology.

Common Service Centres (CSCs): The government plans to establish over 100,000 CSCs to provide all government services to citizens in rural areas and provide “government at your doorstep.”

The government is also making efforts to make digitized information available in India’s many languages

E-Governance Initiative

The Government of India’s National

E-Governance Plan seeks to create

Core Infrastructure and Policies

required for growth of e-Government

Services and implement a number

of Mission Mode Projects to bring

about a citizen-centric and business-

centric environment.

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Dr. Reddys Foundation - Livelihood Advancement Business Schools

LABS is a B school exclusively for marginalized youth. It promotes tailor made programs targeted at youth and women in the age group of 18 -35 years from economically weak sections and enables them to gain access to opportunities for sustainable livelihoods. LABS livelihood programs are designed and executed in such a way that they can be easily replicated through a viable and sustainable model.

NASSCOM Knowledge Network (NKN)

The NKN is a network of knowledge centres across 10 states of India. The Centres provide public access to (value-added) ICT for educational, personal, social and economic development. The centres would provide multi-purpose services to communities such as education, health, e-governance and other services by facilitating access to information and essential services, providing opportunities through capacity building and training tools using ICT as outreach platform.

NASSCOM’s BiG Tech and BiG

BiG Tech assists non-governmental organisations and charities by offering access to the software donation programs of our donor partners. The broader BiG programme is aimed at building capacities of partner organizations by extensive training of personnel managing knowledge centres

QUEST ALLIANCE (Quality Education and Skills Training)

The Quest Alliance aims to develop and expand quality education and job training programs that bridge the gap between education and employment and strengthen employment opportunities for marginalized youth. Specific programs include Promoting IT Skills Training for Vulnerable Youth, Using Cell Phones for Teacher Training, Using ICTs to Promote Education and Employment, Scaling a Life Skills Program with ICTs.

PRATHAM Focused on education. They also have a skills training program, providing skill sets to unemployed youth. For example, their Computer Assisted Learning program has 55,000 children in computer labs in 7 states.Other programmes include Skills Education (2,000 youth trained in skills/ vocational education), Teacher Training (350,000+ government teachers trained), Read India (National program aimed at reading, writing and maths for 60 million children)

ICT-based programmes targeting Employability are emerging

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Accenture‘s experience in Africa shows how ICT can make a difference

With Kenya’s current shortage of nursing instructors, training 22,000 nurses would take 100 years; by leveraging Accenture’s innovative e-learning solutions, they are targeting to train 22,000 in 5 years at 5% of the cost.

• A feasible e-Learning solution designed and tested to upgrade Kenyan nurses’ skills

• Increased number of trained and qualified nurses able to deliver essential health services throughout Kenya

• Overall time to up skill nurses reduced

• An enriched learning experience using the computer

• Model developed for replication in other African countries, who are also experiencing a chronic shortage of qualified health workers

• AMREF capacity built to develop, implement and monitor effective e-Learning on a sustained basis

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We have the opportunity to set minds and hearts on fire!

……the desire of reward is one of the

strongest incentives of human conduct;

or that the best security for the fidelity

of mankind is to make their interests

coincide with their duty.

Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers 1788