Annual Report 2015-16
The 2015–16 Annual Report stands at an important threshold. Dr. Reddy’s Foundation completes twenty years while re-examining how it should work in the decades ahead. Alongside a visual account of the Foundation’s heritage, the report documents a year of deliberate redesign. LABS is revisited through the perspectives of young people, employers, partners and specialists, laying […]
Annual Report 2014-15
Organised around children, youth, women and households, the 2014–15 Annual Report signals a way of understanding inclusive growth. Instead of presenting programmes as separate verticals, it shows how education, skills and rural livelihoods intersect across different stages of life. The report moves from neighbourhood and government schools to job-focused training for young people, including persons […]
Annual Report 2013-14
The 2013–14 Annual Report captures consolidation: initiatives tested over earlier years are now supported by clearer targets, stronger systems and a focus on outcomes. LABS grows its network of panel employers and uses participant and recruitment fees to recover part of the training cost, while FOIS brings centre-level information from registration through job retention into […]
Annual Report 2012-13
The 2012–13 Annual Report shows ideas from the previous year beginning to mature. LABS-S gains confidence as aspirants recommend the programme and employers pay recruitment fees, while retaining flexibility for young people unable to afford the full cost. The more revealing shift, however, is in the widening scope of inclusion. PwD LABS expands across states, […]
Annual Report 2011-12
The 2011–12 Annual Report records a year of bold, practical experiments in how social programmes could grow without losing their purpose. At its centre is LABS-S, DRF’s attempt to recast its flagship employability programme as a not-for-profit social business, recovering part of its costs so that more young people could be reached with the same […]
Annual Report 2010-11
The 2010–11 Annual Report captures DRF at a moment when expansion began to take an inclusive form. The year brought sharper attention to two groups frequently excluded from mainstream employment pathways: rural youth and persons with disabilities. Through Skilling Rural India, training and job matching were organised around nearby growth centres, responding to the economic […]
Annual Report 2009-10
Marking ten years of LABS, the 2009–10 Annual Report looks beyond a successful model to ask where it could go next. Its theme, “Diverse Needs, Innovative Responses,” runs through experiments designed for people and settings that conventional training often overlooked. The report follows the early journey of Skilling Rural India, where wage employment, micro-enterprises and […]
Annual Report 2008-09
The 2008–09 Annual Report captures a year in which scale was matched by experimentation. Across livelihoods, DRF strengthened partnerships, redesigned curricula and introduced shorter, market-responsive courses while beginning to explore what employment could look like closer to rural communities. Two rural pilots tested a three-part approach spanning wage employment, enterprise and farm-based livelihoods, offering an […]
Annual Report 2007-08
The 2007–08 Annual Report is as much an exercise in listening as it is a record of work. Alongside the year’s progress in livelihoods and education, it includes an independently reviewed social account built from the experiences of LABS alumni, parents, employers, neighbours, teachers and community members. Their voices reveal what was working, where expectations […]