Recognizing the importance of employability skills, CSS bridges the skills gap through its initiative. This initiative helps to empower the rural youth and women with employability skills in an inclusive, learning-friendly environment and orients them to career opportunities beyond the conventional streams.

CSS also inspires rural women to take up the trades which are traditionally practiced by men for livelihood.

CSS prepares an individual for a specific trade and it will enhance the rural communities to become self-reliant, widens the opportunities for people to find a job that fits with their talents and preferences, helps them to get a decent job and fair income, helps communities to come out of the poverty trap and provides skills to progress in their life.

Identifying community experts in selected trades, engage professionals/agencies to build their expertise to become effective trainers in conducting skill trainings.

• Facilitating the community and its experts to set up community-managed skilling provisions.
• Provide systems for assessments and certifications by accredited third-party agencies and access to job markets.
• Facilitating interested members to become entrepreneurs by linking them to OSF.

Imparting of skills in construction trades like masonry, bar bending, plumbing, electrician, welding, etc. can be facilitated by CSS. Also trades like 2/4-wheeler mechanics, home appliance repair, mobile repair easily lends themselves to this model.