**The problem** India has one of the youngest populations in the world. We need to create 12 million jobs a year and we have maybe 7 to 8 million non-farm jobs being created every year. While India is also growing at an aggregate level, we only have about a quarter of the workforce in regular salaried jobs. The rise of the gig economy / non-union jobs also puts the salaried class under threat. In parallel, the gains from GDP growth are concentrated and not wide-spread. So what can be done to avoid frittering away the demographic advantage that India currently has?
**The solution?** Community-based entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial mindsets may be the answer to this growing problem. However, students in rural India typically lack exposure to entrepreneurship or entrepreneurial mindsets. The entrepreneurial mindset development program (EMDP) which focussed on entrepreneurial mindsets and social projects was designed to address this challenge. At scale. Delivered to over 600,000 14-year-olds in the last two years with the help over 10,000 teachers EMDP is being ingrained into the Andhra Pradesh government education system. The delivery model married 5 different teams (including a government) with complementary strengths
**Outcomes** We have seen superb gains in some areas, we have seen losses (and we are learning from those losses like every entrepreneur does). Those gains have been for the teachers for whom the training was designed and the students who they ultimately reach. For the students themselves we have seen those wins in key entrepreneurial traits like grit or trying new things. We see students from the most remote parts of Andhra Pradesh coming forward with an entrepreneurial zeal with projects that could change their communities. And that spurs us to reach more students – in older classes and other geographies!