The programme is intended to familarise the participants with issues related to ‘climate change and livelihood’ by focusing on how climate change impacts poor people’s livelihoods, their coping mechanisms and alternative adaption strategies.

The Course aims at developing the capacities of young research scholars in the area of qualitative research. It provides an opportunity to go through a rigorous and interactive exercise on understanding various qualitative methods and tools, with special focus on labour research.

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.

This programme aims at strengthening the knowledge of the participants with good governance and the various development programmes and discuss the issues and mechanism for the effective delivery to working mass.

The programme aims at enhancing enforcement competence and skills of Enforcement Officers.

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

To develop an understanding of social protection and Livelihood security for Informal Sector Workers.

The programme aims at enhancing the understanding of the industrial relations managers and trade union leaders on the major opportunities and challenges relating to labour-management relations in a globalising economy.