Life Skills for Women: An Active Learning Module

A well-designed and well-delivered life skills program can help a woman to become more responsible, healthy, and empowered. Life skills promote adaptive and positive behaviours through the development of psycho-social skills enhancing an individual’s cognitive, social, emotional, legal and political competency. It aims to empower women with education, employment, better health and justice, enabling them to make their own decisions and freely live their life with a sense of self-worth, self-respect and dignity. By developing life skills, these capabilities along with the other hidden potential of women can be enhanced as a result they become personally, educationally, emotionally, socially, legally, politically and financially empowered. This module is designed to develop life skills among women for their empowerment. It is based on a life skills intervention program conducted in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. The module explains the life skills program in detail. The module includes ten separate sessions on ten different life skills along with a pre-session, an introductory session and a concluding session in the last i.e. total of 13 sessions.