With the main objective of improving the employability of poor women in the informal sector in India, the ILO implemented the pilot project “Decent Employment for Women in India Project (DEW)” from 2001 to 2005. This project was funded by the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL). The main target group of this project was poor and often illiterate or semi-illiterate women living in slum areas in the metropolitan areas of Delhi and Bangalore.