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Project Name
Better Utilization of Skills for Youth through Quality Apprenticeships
Brief Project description
The BUSY project’s immediate objective is to improve the capacity of government, employers’, workers’ and civil society organizations to establish and expand workplace-based training programs for vulnerable and marginalized youth ages 16-24. With a particular focus on adolescents 16-21 years old, at or above the legal working age, who are engaged in or at risk of engaging in hazardous work
Implementing Partners
• MOL, MOE, NITA, TVETA, COTU, FKE, MSEA, Counties(Kilifi, Kitui & Busia)
Ndung’u Ndegwa
Workplace Based Training Specialist
Better Utilization of Skills for Youth through Quality Apprenticeships (BUSY) Project
International Labour Organization
UN Complex Block P, Level 1
Tel: +254 20 7625658
Mobile: +254 723 855944
April 2017 – December 2021
USD 3 Million
UN Complex, Gigiri
List counties in which interventions are implemented
- Laws or policies supporting quality workplace-based training opportunities for youth in Kenya, including vulnerable and marginalized youth, are improved and / or implemented by key stakeholders;
- Kenyan government, employers’ and workers’ organizations, and other stakeholders implement best practices related to workplace-based training for youth, including the most vulnerable and marginalized; and,
The quality of existing public and private programs in Kenya that provide vulnerable and marginalized youth with prerequisite skills to enter workplace-based training programs is improved
List counties in which interventions are implemented • Kenya
Kenya
Sectors you work in (e.g. oil & Gas; housing; agriculture)
• General Skills Development for all applicable skills sectors
• Project aligned to UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Kenya Vision 2030 and Big4 Agenda
• Gender Equity and Social Inclusion themes mainstreamed in project implementation as instituted by ILO
BUSY
