STAKEHOLDERS CONVENE THE FIRST NATIONAL GREEN JOBS AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT FOR YOUTHS IN KENYA.

STAKEHOLDERS CONVENE THE FIRST  NATIONAL GREEN JOBS AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT FOR YOUTHS IN KENYA.

By Brenda Asugu .
The government in collaboration with Jacob’s Ladder Africa(JLA) , International Labour (ILO)Organisation, United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP)  and United Nations Children’s Fund, held the first National Green jobs and skill development yesterday in Nairobi
The workshop aims at developing a legislative framework for creating Green jobs for youth in Kenya and advancing environmental sustainability.
PHOTO: Attendees at the Kenya National Green Jobs and Skills Development Workshop at Kenyatta International Convention Centre  (KICC)

Stakeholders in the environment conservation sectors are deliberating on the ways to unlock Kenya’s potential as a global hub for digital.
According to the  Co-Founder of Jacob’s Ladder Africa, Sellah Bogonko, highlighted on the importance of implementing legislation for green jobs and skills development to adress unemployment crisis among the youths 
She further said ," there has been lack of a coordinated system towards creating green jobs making it hard to formulate regulations"
Principal Secretary in the State Department for Environment, Climate Change and Forestry Festus Ng'eno said the workshop is a step towards aggregating existing initiatives to date, providing linkages to the work being done by various actors in order to build upon them and avoid duplication.
He added that in a country where the youth constitute 75 percent of the population, and two-thirds of whom are unemployed or under-employed, the National Green Jobs and Skills Development Workshop is a significant step demonstrating the nation’s focus on adopting a low-carbon and green growth pathway.
Principal Secretary for Labour and Skills Development Shadrack Mwadime said regulatory reforms and emission targets will bring about downsizing and restructuring in high carbon industries. The new jobs and job losses will inevitably require changing skills requirements.
The Principal Secretary for Higher Education and Research, Beatrice Inyangala said that there is a need for educational institutions to update their curricula to align with the demands of a low-carbon pathway.
She highleted on the urgent need for higher education institutions and technical training institutes to construct, deconstruct and reconstruct the curricula to level up to the dynamic needs of a low carbon development pathway.
The stakeholders said they have identified skills development, enterprise development and financing as the three overarching pillars that will form the basis of engagement throughout the Green Jobs and Skills Development Workshop.

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