About Capacity Building
YL acknowledges the need for enhanced capabilities and capacities to influence change at a policy and programmatic level. To address the gap, YL actively engages in undertaking capacity building programmes and supports National, State, and international organisations.
Our capacity-building programmes are designed to:
Adopt principles of andragogy and heutagogy, which promote self-directed learning.
- Offer safe space for reflection and addressing prejudices and bias of participants.
- Ensure effective and efficient transfer of skills.
YL undertakes a variety of capacity building activities targeted at diverse stakeholders including:
Policymakers, planners, and administrators to advance evidence-based policymaking as well as effective planning, budgeting, and monitoring of programmes.
- Master Trainers to enhance knowledge, skills, and attitudes amongst master trainers to become effective mentors/ trainers.
- Implementing Agencies/Practitioners to promote knowledge, skills, and attitudes amongst practitioners to incorporate evidence into programmes and adopt inclusive practices.
Select Capacity Building Reports
MAKING INCLUSION WORK
Young Lives India provided technical support to the Ministry of Human Resource Development and World Bank to develop a toolkit ‘Making Inclusion Work’. This series of five training modules geared toward MTs, provides practical information on effectively including children with disabilities in mainstream inclusive environments.
They aim to build awareness on the challenges faced by students with disabilities and to address these challenges by implementing practical tips for teaching and learning.

CAPACITY BUILDING FOR INCLUSIVE EDUCATION
Young Lives India provided technical support to UNICEF India to prepare teachers for inclusive education. Participatory and experiential workshops were conducted to train an identified pool of Master Trainers from five States, on inclusion of children with disabilities in schools. The workshops aimed at preparing the master trainers to roll-out training programmes for teachers in their respective State(s) using participatory methods of training.
The training focused on changing perceptions, values, and attitudes, leading to transformation of classroom pedagogies and creating inclusive learning environments.

CAPACITY BUILDING FOR LIFE SKILLS
Elementary & Secondary
Young Lives India, in partnership with UNICEF India Country Office, has been supporting systemic capacity building for comprehensive life skills assessment of adolescents. Under this project, Young Lives India undertook a situational analysis in five States to understand how “life skills” are understood by stakeholders and examine life skills interventions in the respective States.
For the past two years, Young Lives India has been building capacities of education functionaries on assessment of life skills of adolescents age-group 11-14 years. Moving ahead, Young Lives India, in partnership with UNICEF India Country Office, is now developing a framework and a construct validated tool to measure life skills of adolescents in secondary schools.

CAPACITY BUILDING ON CHILD PROTECTION ISSUES
Evidence generated from secondary research (NFHS-4 and Census of India) has been utilized by Young Lives India to strengthen systemic capacity in States with a high prevalence of child marriage. Young Lives India conducted capacity building programmes for prevention of child marriage and teenage pregnancy in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Rajasthan, Telangana, Tripura, and West Bengal in collaboration with the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and the respective State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR).
The experiential workshops focussed on building an understanding of the issues of child rights, and equip the government functionaries to develop context-specific and targeted District Action Plans. Sessions on the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act (PCMA) 2006 and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 were also attended by adolescent girls who voiced their concerns about their rights and entitlements. Similar workshops are planned in Bihar, Gujarat, and Uttar Pradesh.
