CONTENT Chapter-1: Urbanization Employment and Urban Poor 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Review of Literature 1 1.3 Employment Situation in Gujarat9 1.4 Objectives 11 1.5 Sample selection criteria and categories 12 Chapter-2 14 Urban Poor Employment Programmes in Gujarat 14 2.1 Employment Programmes 14 2.2 Skill Insecurity: 14 2.3 The Urban Wage Employment Programme (UWEP) 16 2.4 UMEED: Programme Overview 16 2.5 The organization behind UMEED: SAATH 18 2.6 Target Groups 19 2.7 Step by step process of UMEED 20 Chapter-3 23 UMEED Centers and Beneficiary 23 3.1 Introduction 23 3.2 Training Module Choice: 24 3.3 Community-wise Participation: 25 3.4 Gender and Age 28 3.5 Household Size Distribution and Earning members 28 3.6 Education Level of Respondents 29 3.7 Income and Expenditure classification 30 Chapter-4 34 Issues of Training 34 4.1 Training Type in UMEED 34 4.2 Employment Related Information 35 4.3 Course-wise classification: 36 4.4 Jobs changed before the present job 37 4.5 Medium of getting the present job 38 4.6 Working hours on the job 39 4.7 Time taken to reach the workplace 41 4.8 Wage earned by workforce - Gender - wise 42 Chapter-5 45 Perception of Beneficiaries 45 5.1 Skills enhanced through UMEED 45 5.2 Course recommendation to someone else 48 5.3 Course usefulness in the present job 48 5.4 Comparative Assessment 50 Chapter-6 53 Conclusions and Recommendations 53 6.1Conclusions 53 6.2Targets achieved 54 6.3Recommendations 56 BIBLIOGRAPHY 60