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WORK READINESS However, since 2014, the Kenyan
government has sought to address
these challenges by various
interventions. One such intervention
THROUGH is reforms in the TVET sub sector,
targeted at addressing the skills
mismatch and gaps thereof.
Working with development agencies
APPRENTICESHIP: and other key stakeholder in the
TVET subsector, the government
purposefully set out to improve on
the delivery of TVET training in the

a skills development program
A CASE FOR ADOPTION OF DUAL SYSTEM country. The “Skills Expert Project”,
initiated and supported by the
Federal Government of Germany,
is one is one of the pioneering
programs mooted to champion the
Kenya is one of the best performing in the hospitality, information, transformation of TVET training in
economies in Sub-Saharan Africa communication, transportation and Kenya.
with its GDP growing steadily sectors cannot also go without a
at 5% per annum since 2013. The mention. Yet, despite this impressive Launched in late 2017, by the German
biggest contributors to this growth performance, skills shortages, high Federal Ministry of Economy and
have been agriculture, transport, unemployment rates and mismatch Energy, and the Delegation of
storage, manufacturing, wholesale of skills continue to plague the German Industry and Commerce
and retail sectors. The impressive vitality of the economy. for Eastern Africa (AHK), the Skills
growth rates, pre-COVID, witnessed Expert Project is a vocational training

KNQA Certificate Handover.
Left - Bruno Backes, Head of Vocational Training, Delegation of German Industry & Commerce in Kenya (AHK).
Centre - Dr Juma Mukhwana, Director General, Kenya National Qualification Authority (KNQA). Right - Maren Diale,
Country Director, Delegation of German Industry & Commerce in Kenya (AHK). Back right - Frank Mukuna, former
Deputy Director of RAD KNQA

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