Funded by the Ministry of Rural Development (Government of India) under the Swarnajayanthi Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) for creating rural livelihoods, the Grameen LABS project was piloted in six states in India : Bihar, Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh. Patterned on the pilot program, the Grameen LABS project is now being scaled up in all other states across India .

Employment Generation and Marketing Mission (EGMM) has been set up by the Government of AP to address unemployment among the economically and socially disadvantaged youth in a public-private partnership mode. EGMM is the implementing agency for the jobs component of Indira Kranthi Patham (IKP), a World Bank-funded project in association with Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP). In partnership with EGMM, DRF runs IKP-LABS to impart market-oriented, demand-driven vocational training programs for poor youth.

Under an MoU with the Corporation of Chennai, DRF has launched LABS centers for delivering livelihood advancement training to 360 economically disadvantaged students. The training is being delivered in three batches at the Corporation’s Community Colleges.

To assist women SHGs in West Bengal to market their products effectively, the Department of Panchayat and Rural Development (Government of West Bengal) and DRF have come together to give them training in soft skills, communications skills, sales techniques, computer basics and Communicative English. One LABS center is currently operational at Rajarhat (North 24 Parganas District).