AfDB prioritises skills in Kenya

The African Development Bank’s recently-released strategy for loans and funding for Kenya in 2014-2018 focuses on physical infrastructure and skills development.

“With an estimated gap of about 30,000 engineers, 90,000 technicians and 400,000 artisans, the shortage of mid-level technicians and artisans is hampering the country’s economic growth prospects,” the strategy says.

The bank will offer support to Kenyan tertiary and vocational training institutions to the tune of US$61 million in 2014.The allocation will focus on the need for infrastructure development. The bank wants women to take up at least half the places in its skills programmes.