Kenya Education for Employment Program

The initiative supports technical vocational education and training (TVET) reform in Kenya helping create a strong demand-driven and industry-responsive training system in growing industries. Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan) is seeking to bridge the current skills gap in Kenya's demand-driven sectors by improving the quality and relevance of curricula the technical skills and knowledge of lecturers as well as improving the country's overall training infrastructure. This initiative helps Kenyans especially youth take advantage of increased employment opportunities in growing industries such as the agriculture and energy sectors particularly among marginalized populations in the northern drought-prone areas which are some of the poorest regions of the country. Activities include: (1) Developing industry-responsive and gender-sensitive competency-based training curricula; (2) Providing training delivered by experts from Canadian technical training institutions specializing in extractives and related sectors to 200 technical instructors including through the use of instructional technology; (3) Providing and install training equipment for Kenyan partner technical training institutions for the delivery of competency-based training; (4) Delivering leadership and management training by experts from Canadian technical training institutions to 100 administrators and governors at Kenyan partner technical training institutions; (5) Organizing workshops to engage 500 private and public sector TVET stakeholders in the implementation of TVET reform and to share best practices; and (6) Launching outreach and public awareness campaigns to promote skills training programs within local communities directly benefitting 2080 instructors administrators and governors private and public sector TVET stakeholders and students.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) Strengthened quality of industry-responsive skills training programs for youth male and female trainees at partner institutions (2) Increased effectiveness of partner institutions to deliver skills training programs that meet private sector needs to youth male and female trainees (3) Improved capacity of Kenyan Institutions and agencies to implement TVET reform initiatives.