Vocational Skills Training Interventions

Since 2007, The Coastal Rural Support Program – Kenya (CRSP-K)  has trained 176 (91 male and 85 female) youth in various vocational skills. The main training fields are tailoring, dress making, hair dressing, auto  mechanics, motorbike repairing, mobile phones repairing, shoe making, carpentry, screen printing, electricals, electronics, welding and Early Childhood Development (ECD) teacher training.

Margaret Dundo, a dressmaking graduate at her business place in Samburu

An analysis done in February 2011 on occupations of the trained youth indicate that 38 youth (22%) have started own businesses related to the vocational kills acquired, 20 youth (11%) have been retained by their trainers and are working for them on monthly pay or commission terms, 60 youth (34%) have secured employment in other places (2 youth are working in fields not related to acquired skills),38 youth (22%) have not been able to secure employment nor been able to start enterprises and 18 youths (11%) have not yet completed their trainings. In the four years only 4 youth were not able to complete their training for various reasons among them sickness, lack of subsistence, family problems etc.

This represents 2% of the total number of youth trained. The number of those not engaged in wage and self employment include 10 youth the enterprise team was not able to track and their where about are not known. One youth passed away in 2009 following a road accident.

Break down of training fields and number of youth in each.