Inclusive Growth through Decent Work in the Great Rift Valley Project, Public Private Development Partnership (PPDP)

Public Private Development Partnerships (PPDP) is a modality for concrete cooperation between SIDA and private sector actors. PPDPs encourage the private sector to proactively create business ventures that also improve conditions for people living in poverty.

The development objective or long term impact of this Public Private Development Partnership (PPDP) is “Poverty reduction and improved living conditions through decent work and access to rights based services among the rural population in the Great Rift Valley.

Expected Outcomes 

The Inclusive Growth through Decent Work in the Great Rift Valley Project, PPDP will achieve the following three long-term outcomes in support of accomplishing the above objectives: 

1. Decent jobs resulting from better skills provided by vocational training centres.

2. Decent jobs – and new and growing businesses – resulting from new and relevant informal skills, business development services and access to finance.

3. Communities have the capacity to lobby for increased access to public and social services e.g. water, education, health, sanitation, health, sanitation and County Governments have increased capacity to supply these public and social services.

To ensure that youth from the targeted communities attain the skills, qualifications and work place training experience required to improve their employability, the project will employ a 5 stage process:

• Secure commitments with companies and industries to promote demand-driven skills development and employment opportunities for the young women and men from the immediate communities.

• Secure Government commitment at both the central ad county levels and identify specific roles and responsibilities.

• Develop occupational competency standards and relevant curriculum based on industry’s skills needs.

• Through partnerships with the public and private sector partners, enhance the capacity of some vocational education and training centres to deliver the demand-driven skills training and link with industries for apprenticeships and attachments.

• Ensure assessment and certification of skills of trainees including recognition of prior learning so that the skills are recognized nationally, and where possible international benchmarking and formal accreditation are pursued.

Expected deliverables/Activities 

• Development of a private sector engagement strategy and roll out.

• Pedagogy training (Training of trainers)

• Curriculum development or review

• Monitoring, roll out and validation of the curriculum, training of the student

• Fellowships and study tours

• Bursary funds for trainees

• Equipment for vocational training centres

• Part time/rotational/visiting instruction in vocational training centres

• Sensitization of the Private sector on the MNE Declaration and Social policy 

• Skills demand hrough partnerships with the public and private sector partners, enhance

• Skills demand analysis study​

• Public private dialogue/skills matching forum

• Developing modalities for internships/attachments

• Internships/attachments for trainees

• Study on employment creation potential

• Green jobs assessment

• Training of Trainers (ToT) – Business Management Training (SIYB, Get Ahead, TREE Methodology etc as market demands)

• Training of Entrepreneurs (ToE) – Business Management Training

• Mentorship of business groups

• Sensitization of workers’ on fundamental principles and rights at work for workers in large companies and MNEs.

• Capacity building for partners

• Establishing slaughter house

• Establishing market sheds for entrepreneurs

• Value addition training – processing and product development

• Study on procurement opportunities on SMEs to improve local content

• Carry out a sustainability analysis including private sector engagement strategy.

• Establish a forum for sustainable private sector engagement.

• Facilitate Public Private Dialogue/Skills matching annual forum – county and national government and private sector dialogue meeting.

Location

• Nakuru & Narok Counties

Key Focus Areas

• Skills development

• Enterprise/Business development

• Community engagement

​Sector:

• Public Private Development Partnership