Voices is a nationwide engagement with young people, parents, and teachers to capture their insights on life skills. Life Skills Collaborative (LSC) is striving to understand the needs and aspirations of these stakeholders. And, invite their input to bring this important voice into the conversation on life skills. Through the Voices initiative, LSC aims to inform and drive the integration of life skills within public education systems and support government engagement and action.

We believe these answers will provide essential inputs to the policy, intervention, and activities that have been planned by various stakeholders. These inputs will be helpful not only for the government bodies but also be instrumental in informing the civil society organisations on their approach to life skills. ‍With the Voices initiative, our focus is to help contextualise life skills in India. And, bring the conversation on the importance of life skills to the stakeholders who are the end beneficiaries of these interventions.

WHAT LSC intends to achieve

CAPTURING
AWARENESS

To understand awareness of life skills among young people, parents and teachers. The results can be used by district- or state-level agencies and organisations to inform their life skills programs.

COLLECTING INPUTS
FROM YOUNG PEOPLE

 To understand the kinds of skills young people think they need to achieve their envisaged future goals, and the extent to which this matches with what their parents and teachers think. The findings can inform the design of community engagement and intervention strategies that address youth objectives.

GENERATING
PUBLIC GOODS

To facilitate and drive life skills conversations among stakeholders, Voices tools will be made available to the ecosystem which will help inform the design of curricula for life skills programs as per the local contexts.

THE WAY FORWARD

LSC is collecting inputs from more stakeholders to enhance the insights emerging from our Year 1 exercise and we are inviting organisations championing the cause of life skills for young people in India to be a part of the Voices exercise. They would be able to share the perspectives of young people, parents, and teachers.

If you are currently working with these stakeholders and are interested in collecting inputs for the LSC Voices exercise, please write to us at voices@lifeskillscollaborative.in





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