The Education for Income Generation (EIG) project provides training to disadvantaged and conflict affected youth (ages 16-30) to increase their income, through employment and agriculture. The cornerstone of this project is its demand-driven approach: creating training courses that meet the needs of the labor market and linking youth to pre-identified employment opportunities. The program builds on Winrock International Nepal and funded by US-aid Nepal.

EIG has four components:
• Entrepreneurial literacy, life skills, nutrition and health, and peace-building
• Vocational skill training for employment
• Increased rural incomes from agricultural productivity and enterprise training
• Scholarships for dalits and other targeted youth

The integrated 10-month entrepreneurial literacy course sets people on the path to become entrepreneurs, commercial farmers or employees. The course covers a variety of topics, including: life skills, peace-building, HIV/AIDs awareness, health, entrepreneurship training, reading, record keeping, math, business planning, and profit/loss calculation. It also serves as a foundation for additional training in vocational skill areas or agricultural productivity. Seventy percent of literacy graduates receive training in vocational education or agriculture. In vocational education, the project ensures that at least 80 percent of the skill trained graduates are employed three months after graduation by using a demand-driven approach. Jobs are identified, and EIG conducts trainings and links graduates to the opportunities. The CDPN was lunched this Programme in Banke and Bardiya District of Nepal.