[{"bbox": [96, 162, 1157, 217], "category": "Text", "text": "that have started this December. These will test sustainability models for schools and gather insights on more accurate costs for connectivity."}, {"bbox": [96, 216, 1157, 267], "category": "Text", "text": "**County Governments (duty bearers)** will be key stakeholders in coordinating efforts for financing digital infrastructure in schools and TVET centres."}, {"bbox": [96, 296, 242, 321], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Private sector:**"}, {"bbox": [96, 321, 1157, 376], "category": "Text", "text": "-Mobile phone private operators could provide some EUR 70 000 000 of investment in views of potential commercial activity that could be unlocked by the core optic fibre infrastructure."}, {"bbox": [96, 402, 248, 428], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Rights holders:**"}, {"bbox": [96, 428, 843, 454], "category": "Text", "text": "-Local communities and CSOs will be partners once the locations are identified."}, {"bbox": [96, 523, 1147, 577], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Short problem analysis 2: insufficient intermediate digital skills, e-business & entrepreneurship capabilities for the job market**"}, {"bbox": [96, 602, 1157, 788], "category": "Text", "text": "**Skills:** about 1 million youth enter the job market each year of which there is a wide margin for digital upskilling especially for the students enrolled in the TVET sector. Opportunities for digital skills stand at 33 million in Kenya between 2019 to 2030 cumulated. Digital skills can be mapped in three categories: 'basic' (for consumers, buy and teach online, analyse data, promote content), 'intermediate' (for producers, sell and teach online, analyse data, promote content), and 'advanced' (for system developers, build websites, platform and analysis tool). While the private sector is strongly involved in the provision of digital skills, the TVET sector needs reinforcement to update and upgrade its potential in covering the expressed needs."}, {"bbox": [96, 814, 1157, 1079], "category": "Text", "text": "The TVET sector in Kenya is being revised, however, challenges remain in terms of provision of skills aligned with private sector needs, dated infrastructure, and insufficient capacity building for the trainers including on training students with disabilities. To help in shifting public perception as well as social and cultural attitudes about vocational training and the benefits thereof, the National Communication and Advocacy Strategy was launched in July 2021. The Strategy will help in the rebranding and repositioning of TVET in Kenya and ensure that both communication and advocacy approaches focusing on the TVET sub-sector are executed in a sustained, coordinated and organised manner. The further development of TVET and its outreach activities offers the industry an opportunity to identify digital skills needs and define related learning trajectories including options for the integration of international certification programmes that can be mapped to the National Qualification Frameworks making them recognised in many countries."}, {"bbox": [96, 1105, 1157, 1266], "category": "Text", "text": "Gender disparities are persistent and all the more in digital literacy and advanced ICT studies. Only 32% of women report using mobile Internet while men reach 49%. Access to digital skills is central for enhancing employability, enabling entrepreneurship and boosting competitiveness, in turn contributing to reducing income inequality. A digitally-skilled workforce is a prerequisite for GoK's intended economic transformation and to retain and improve competitiveness. By 2030, the labour force in Kenya will require about 17 million workers with digital skills across various sectors of the economy."}, {"bbox": [96, 1294, 1157, 1615], "category": "Text", "text": "**E-business, e-entrepreneurship & jobs:** the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in 2020 in a fall of 20% in employment for ages 18-64, which has not been recovered yet. The poverty profile has shifted towards urban youth working in services. The economic resilience of many businesses has depended on their ability to digitise their processes quickly and shift to e-commerce. Given that Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of Kenya's economy, their digitization will be vital for the country's economy. For the country to sustainably benefit from digitalisation, it is therefore crucial to provide support to SMEs and start-ups, e.g. through entrepreneurship support organisations (ESOs) like innovation hubs. This means that SMEs will have to be enabled to have enough capital to purchase and invest in digital solutions and technologies. Likewise, ESOs, technology and innovation hubs will need support to provide SMEs and start-ups with the necessary services and skills to diversify their products, in line with the market and as well as compete with global brands. E-business will continue to transform the labour market by eliminating some jobs (e.g. in manual jobs or in banking) and creating others (e.g. online shopping, delivery services, etc.). Significant job creation opportunities also lie in the development of a data-driven economy and rising global demand"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1681, 1142, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 9 of 31"}]