International Labour Organization National Consultant Jobs in Kenya
Introduction and Context
Kenya is a major migration hub in East Africa as origin, transit and destination country. Kenya is also a critical hub for mixed migration in the EHAO region making it a destination country for asylum seekers, refugees and economic migrants as a well a transit for migrants heading southwards irregularly. For emigration, the push factors are pursuit for better employment opportunities. The top destinations for high skilled Kenyans have been the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and other European Countries. Within the African region, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, and Nigeria. Over that 35% of emigration from Kenya is of Skilled workers. For the low skilled workers, recent years have seen increased emigration towards the Gulf1.
By and large, Kenyans usually migrate through regular pathway, hence, they rarely feature in the irregular migration flows and data. However, there are incidences of overstay or non-renewal of their travel documents turning them into migrants in irregular status while abroad. There are also few cases of Kenyans migrating irregularly through Djibouti towards the GCC through Yemen. In 2021, the ministry of labour estimated that 4 million Kenyans are living abroad, majority in the US and UK. The number continue to rise though considering the expanding migration flows to the GCC. In 2019, the Government reported to having facilitated 87,784 employments of Kenyans in the Middle East.2 Majority of this group is low to medium skilled workers mainly in the Domestic work subsector. Medium and high skills workers are also finding their way to the GCC in construction, hospitality, nursing etc,
Economic opportunities:
The Kenya Kwanza Government’s Economic Blueprint Bottom-Up Transformation Agenda (BETA) has Affordable housing programme (AHP) as among the flagship projects not only to provide decent affordable housing to Kenyans in urban areas but also to create hundreds of thousands of jobs along the construction sector value chain. Although the pace is slow, but the Government has since January 2023 commissioned 33 affordable housing projects in different counties. During May Day 2024, the president announced that already 140,000 direct and indirect Jobs have been created through the affordable housing programme currently under ways hence construction is relevant value chains4. The arget set by the Government is to deliver 200,000 Affordable housing every year meaning that 1,000,000 houses in 5 years5. It is therefore not clear how many total jobs will be created until the project is completed.
Skills Development
The opportunities highlighted above, will benefit more youth who have skills to either perform work, produce a product, or offer a service. For majority, there are many barriers to accessing skills development in the formal institutions.
In Kenya, almost 1.3 million children qualify to transit to high school from Primary school. The recent reports indicate not all who qualify transit to High school with national level estimates indicate that about 10% fail to transit due to various reasons.
Regional disparities are even bigger where some counties register only transition rate of around 60%. Latest enrolment figures at TVET level indicates that around 367,925 were enrolled
Qualification:
The desired consultant should have advanced degree in social sciences preferably in economics, business administration, education/TVET, human resources development and or related fields.
Experiences
The desired consultant should have proven track records in working on similar assignments that entails labour market assessment including but not limited to assessing skills shortages/needs/gaps in the labour market; enterprise survey; sectoral analysis to ascertain growth and employment opportunities or forecast and reintegration programmes.
The consultant should have demonstrated knowledge of the Labour market dynamics of Kenya in general and of Nairobi and Mombasa in particular as well as dynamics of the labour migration in Kenya through past assignments or publications.
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; International Labour Organization National Consultant Jobs in Kenya
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