India continues to grapple with jobless growth. A country, world’s largest democracy is endowed with world’s highest young population but the irony is unequal access of the same segment to opportunities, information, knowledge and participation in nation’s economic process. Inequity perpetuates deeper as one examines the plight of women in both rural and urban India. The genesis of SCORE Livelihood Foundation is rooted into this thought and hence an urge for addressing the question of how could we make our people future ready – an imagination that revolves around the tenets of ‘self-reliance’.

“SCORE Livelihood Foundation is a social enterprise aspiring to build innovative and scalable models to strengthen resilience of communities & individuals and empower them with sustainable and inclusive livelihood options.”

Madhuban has 17 years of experience in the social development sector. He has worked with corporate, bilateral agencies and national development sector organizations. Mr. Pandey has a master’s degree in social work, PGP in Entrepreneurship Management from XLRI Jamshedpur, PG Diploma in Social Enterprise Management from SIES College, Mumbai and PG Diploma in Business Management from the Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University.

Madhuban is a Master Trainer for Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB) program of International Labor Organization (ILO). He trains business development service providers, partners organizations and trainers, do the required follow up, and ensure the creation of the micro and small enterprises. SIYB is currently the largest global business management training programme with a focus on starting and improving businesses as a strategy for creating more and better employment for women and men. He is trained and certified by ILO’s International Training Centre in Turin, Italy on Green Jobs, climate change and world of work.

He loves mentoring to an existing and potential entrepreneur to help them to grow in contributing to the local economic development and job creation.