By mutual consent, Kenya and Canada have inaugurated a fresh chapter of collaboration that chiefly concentrates on skills development, labour mobility, and migration governance, with health, education, and construction being the most prominent sectors.
Principal Secretary for Labour and Skills Development Shadrack Mwadime indicated that the partnership is geared towards creating opportunities that benefit both countries by enhancing vocational training and making the labour migration process safe, structured, and easy.
While receiving a delegation from the Provincial Government of New Brunswick, headed by Deputy Minister of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour Daniel Mills in Nairobi, Mwadime remarked that the idea would solve the shortage of skills and at the same time increase the number of jobs available to Kenyans overseas.
“The main purpose of this cooperation is to develop the third world sectors while at the same time it is preserving working conditions in the foreign labour market,” PS Mwadime said.
He went on to say that the collaboration would facilitate mutual learning, provide a better standard of education in technical colleges, and assure the mobility of labour is carefully monitored and there will be no abuse of workers.
Deputy Minister Daniel Mills, on the other hand, pointed out that New Brunswick is very much on board in linking up with Kenya for mutual benefit through academic exchanges and personnel development schemes.
The interaction is a milestone in Kenya’s strategy of accessing international labour markets without compromising on the requirements for migration to be a source of national development and skills transfer.