Women constitutes half of our total population. In order to qualify the services of women in terms of economic criteria and to empower them, the Government of India has launched vocational training programme to equip them with the requires skills and abilities with the collaboration of Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation popularly known as NORAD Programme. The programme is being implemented in collaboration with Non-Government Agencies for the benefit of the women, especially for the dropouts and semi-literate women form poor sections of the society in mostly non-traditional. In order to study its impact on the women, the present evaluation was taken up to study the socio-economic profile of the participants, selection of the trainees and agencies, to assess the course content and materials, competencies of the trainers employed, follow-up measures taken up after the training programme and to study the overall impact of the training programme on the economic status of the women. The findings are presented in 9 chapters. The findings of the evaluation will be useful to the policy makers, programme administrators and agencies.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR D Uma Devi
Dr. D. Uma Devi was born in 1965. She took her B.Com., (1985), M.A. (1987) and Ph.D. (1993) in Adult Education and M.A. (1996) in Sociology from S.V. University. At present she is in the Dept. of Adult Education, S.V. University, Tirupati. She has so far published 11 research papers in various reputed education, adult education and social science journals and presented nearly 18 research papers in National and International Seminars.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P. Adinarayan Reddy
Dr. P.A. Reddy, (b. 1957). He took his bachelor degree in science (1978) and education (1981) from Bangalore University, Post Graduation (1980) and Doctoral Degrees (1990) in Adult Education from S.V. University and M.Ed. (1984) from Annamalai University. He is at present with the department of Adult Education in S.V. University Tirupati. He has undergone training in youth and adult Education in Denmark and had opportunities to study adult and non-formal education programmes in Denmark, Sweden and West Germany during visit to these countries. He has so far published 50 research papers in various reputed education, adult education and social science journals. He has also published six-book viz., Adult Education in India, Determinant of instructor effectiveness, Readings of interest of Adults, Post-Literacy and continuing education, total literacy campaign for children, Exposure of women to Mass Media, Health consciousness among women, Total Literacy Campaign: Problem Perspectives, Education of Tribal Women.
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