NSFI is a not for profit organization focused on the objective of skill building and development of vocational opportunities for India’s large but relatively unskilled workforce. NSFI is realizing its mission towards enabling sustainable livelihoods through trainings of unskilled / semi-skilled workers, rural youth, farmers, and women entrepreneurs and action research in the domains of agriculture supply & value chains, markets and skills, and through across the nation with the objective of providing them access to growth sectors in formal labour markets. Further, NSFI through promoting various Centre for Excellence, is working towards building the knowledge and efficiency & effectiveness of praxis in various domains. Various projects are taken up at NSFI that aid in sustainable livelihoods and incomes. NSFI is taking up assignments to generate results that are of benefit to public and private bodies working towards the evolution of sustainable interventions, projects and programmes or their outcomes. With the belief that solutions are to be field driven and grounded in local context; evidenced from the field & owned and driven by local people; and that local action can & must shape the global policy too, NSFI undertakes decentralized collaborative projects at with the goal of evolve and build customized and contextual projects for implementation. NSFI combines research and action, testing out big new ideas in practice, to assess whether and how they can achieve their promises and be sustainable in the long run both at the intervention level and at the market / economy level. Action and Research at NSFI is multidisciplinary in collaboration with various institutes / individuals working in national and international spheres of research and practice.