The National Industrial Training Authority (NITA) is working with Technical Vocational Education Training Institutions (TVETs) to promote creativity and innovation in learning institutions.

The partnership is meant to equip young people with skills for self-employment in addition to closing the skills gap in the country’s labour market.

NITA Chairperson Aden Noor Ali said the collaboration with TVETs seeks to provide young people with competitive skills for self-employment or jobs in the informal sector and to make vocational training appealing to the youth while addressing unemployment as well as the shortage of technical skills in domestic and commercial sectors.

Ali noted that though the world was struggling with youth unemployment, it was experiencing a skills shortage adding that skills development and transformation was crucial for Kenya’s economic growth and development.

Skills development

He said the Kenya Kwanza administration had recognised that skills development was vital for the country’s growth and had prioritised it in its development agenda where the country’s skills ecosystem was now focusing on predicting how the need for skills will change and the preparedness to be responsive.