International Center for Entrepreneurship and Career Development (ICECD)

Not-for-profit/ NGO

International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Career Development is an internationally acclaimed resource organization contributing to global development since 1986. We are recognized as a center of excellence by UN-ESCAP. Our major interventions have been in entrepreneurship development training, MSME development, employment creation through skills training, micro-credit management, economic empowerment among youth/women/disadvantaged groups, and need-based curriculum development and design. Urban, Rural, and tribal youth/women, including those belonging to marginalized families, have been a major target group of ICECD interventions.

These interventions have been all across India and in more than 65 developing or less developed countries. ICECD has continuously developed unique outcome-oriented programs and designed and implemented capacity-building programs for over 2500 national and 3200 international organizations through Training of Trainers (TOT) between 1986 and today.

The primary target groups for ICECD interventions have been people overlooked, ignored, or forgotten by society, focusing on identifying the capabilities among these disadvantaged groups. It is a well-known fact that anyone can develop, but not everyone, and hence a validated selection system is used for ensuring optimum outputs. The tasks are: facilitating their development through formal/informal training, linkages, placing them in viable markets with a practical marketing approach, need-based support, and an accessible approach to the institution for at least one year.

In addition, ICECD specializes in holistic developmental models for villages with a 360-degree rural developmental approach. This approach includes interventions in health, food and nutrition, adolescent girls programs, local village governance training, digital literacy, livelihood, and the environment - leading to a better-equipped and empowered village.

ICECD also collaborates with several agencies, including the Ministry of S&T, NCERT, Departments of Technical Education, and more, to develop need-based inputs within the formal education system. Due to its network, ICECD has collaborated with and involves the government institutions in many programs. In terms of MSME development, besides developing entrepreneurs (over 100,000 worldwide, and more than 25,000 in India directly, and over 1 million through partner organizations) with investment ranging from INR 5,000 to INR 150 million, ICECD has collaborated with several agencies such as The World Bank/IFC, ILO, USAID, Commonwealth, and DANIDA, for implementing programs in India and other countries.