Youth from Uasin Gishu County stands to benefit from a plan geared at incubating Kenya’s technical potential and exporting the skilled workforce.
Kenya and Germany are working on an arrangement that seeks to grow technical skills to raise an adequate workforce. The aim is to export 150,000 Kenyans to work in what has been primed as a broad German economy that requires human labour.
Speaking during a meeting with a German organization on Friday, Governor Jonathan Bii said his administration takes a keen interest in technical education, and bets on it to empower youth.
“Unemployment is a global challenge. Here in Uasin Gishu, thousands of youth have graduated but with no employment,” said the Governor.
Policies for youth empowerment
The County has established 12 Vocational Training Colleges and runs a campaign to sensitize youth on the need to acquire technical skills in VTCs and Technical Training Institutes.
And the County Government is working on policies for youth empowerment, among them, is the Youth Policy that seeks to, among an avalanche of advantages, create a youth skills database for connecting to the international labour market.
“My Government is working on programs that seek to harness skill development as among ways to solve unemployment,” said Governor Bii.
“And because the President is creating agreements for our youth in global markets, my government has laid necessary foundations to ensure our youth get to work globally.”
Volker Falch, the Chief Executive Officer of BBW – an organization linking sourcing global workforce to German companies, said the European country’s economy is expanding towards manufacturing and thus requires thousands of skilled workforce.
Folch said the German labour market can earn skilled personnel up to Ksh400,000 per month.
County Executive for Youth Affairs, Eng Lucy Ng’endo, Chief Officer for Youth, Nahum Jelagat and Chief of Staff Nicholas Chepkwony were also at the meeting held at the Rift Valley Technical Training Institute.
