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1.0 Kiambu County
1.1 Introduction
Kiambu County is located in the Central highlands of Kenya in the former Central Province,
close to Kenya's capital, Nairobi. Covering an area of 2,543.42 square kilometers, it is also
considered one of the wealthiest counties in Kenya. It is a leading innovative commercial
hub that shares its borders with five other counties; Nakuru and Kajiado to the West,
Murang'a and Nyandarua to the North and Nairobi to the South.
There are several theories that explain the origin of the name kiambu; one theory suggests
that it was derived from a prominent Kikuyu clan known as mbari ya mbuu who used to
live next to the current day Kiambu town. Another theory suggests the area used to
experience constant showers hence the kikuyu phrase ‘kia mbuu'’ meaning the “place of
drizzles.” Kiambu County constitutes of twelve constituencies namely: Gatundu south,
Gatundu North, Juja, Thika town, Ruiru, Githunguri, Kiambu, Kiambaa, Kabete, Kikuyu,
Limuru and Lari.
The 2009 Population and Housing Census indicate that the county had an urban population
of 936,411 in 2009 and in 2012 was projected to be 1,018,773. Urban population is
expected to reach 1,108,380 in 2015 and 1,172,453 by the end of 2017. This high
population in urban centres can be attributed to the proximity of the county to Nairobi as
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most of the people work in Nairobi and reside in the county. In addition, industrial
development in some districts like Thika West and Ruiru attract more labour force.
Kiambu is a town in Kiambu County, Kenya within the Nairobi Metropolitan Region. The
town has a population of 88,869 according to the county government of Kiambu and it is
connected to the rest of the country through a good road network. It is served by many
minibuses and buses.
The town is surrounded by hilly Kikuyu farmland although is under urbanization as
Nairobi is growing fast and more people settle in neighboring towns. Kiambu is seen as a
future anchor to the capital city Nairobi which is undergoing rapid development with
limited space for growth. Kiambu town is therefore a favored location for real estate
development.
The town's administration is under the County Government of Kiambu, which came into
force with the promulgation of Kenya's constitution in 2010.
1.2 Population and Development
Rapid population growth has resulted in high population especially that of youth within
Kiambu county at large. Clearly the high population growth rate has serious effects on
social and economic development. This has resulted into increased unemployment, high
dependency ratio, over-crowding in educational facilities, more demand for better houses
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and high level of poverty indices. Other problems related to high population includes
increasing child labor and family breakdowns. The high rate of unemployment among the
youth has resulted into high insecurity and crime rate within Kiambu town for a long time.
The vice has even adversely affected the location of residential buildings which tend to be
located at the core of urban center.
1.3 Community Organizations/ Non- State Actors
Kiambu County has a total of 38 NGOs with most of them being concentrated in Kiambu
and Thika towns within Kiambaa and Juja constituencies. Majority of them, concentrate in
the fight against HIV and AIDS, children welfare and women empowerment. Moreover, the
county has the biggest number of registered Community Based Organizations (CBOs),
estimated to be more than 10,000. The groups are engaged in wide variety of activities
including: Micro-finance, HIV and AIDS, Drugs and Substance abuse campaign, advocacy
and other income generating activities (County Government of Kiambu)
1.4 Youth population (15–29 years) in Kiambu County
In 2009, the population of the youth was 472,745 and was expected to reach 509,564 in
2012, 549,251 in 2015 and 577,412 by the end of year 2017. The youth forms 29.1 percent
of the total county population. To cater for this population, more investment in vocational
trainings, youth empowerment centres and tertiary institutions is crucial so as to equip the
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youth with necessary skills and knowledge for gainful employment and job creation. In
addition, institutions of higher learning such as technical colleges will need to be equipped
and upgraded to offer competitive skills particularly to those who cannot proceed to the
university. There is also need to create facilitative mechanisms for the youth to access loans
such as those available through the Youth Enterprise Fund to assist them engage in income
generating activities rather than joining illegal groupings or engaging in drug and
substance abuse. The county has a high increase rate in labor force and therefore this has
created a major challenge in creating employment opportunities especially in the formal
sector. Employment in the formal sector has therefore been on the decrease with the only
major employer being the informal Jua Kali sector.
2.0 CAP Youth Empowerment Institute
CAP Youth Empowerment Institute has over the past six years demonstrated a solution to
the challenge of youth unemployment that not only works, but offers high potential for
scale and sustainability. CAP YEI is a Kenyan NGO started in 2010, as a signature program
funded by the MasterCard Foundation to bridge the existing gap between learning and
earning in the Kenyan youths (see www.capyei.org). The CAPYEI mandate is addressing
youth unemployment by offering skills training and support through its Basic
Employability Skills Training (BEST) model.
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BEST is a demand led model that works by closely linking employers, youth, mentors and
other stakeholders to delivers skills and support optimized to train youth with the right
skills and attitudes to perform at work and that employers will hire. The model plays equal
emphasis on providing technical skills as well as life skills. Every course offered by CAP YEI
is based on a market assessment that estimates employability potential for trained youth.
Potential employers are engaged at all levels, including curriculum delivery, mentorship,
practical training and work readiness. A post training support program and alumni
network contribute to supporting youth as they transition from training to the world of
work.
Using the BEST model, CAP YEI has trained over 34,261 youth in Kenya directly and
attained a successful transition (from learning to earning) that averages 78%, one of the
highest rates in Kenya. In 2014, CAP YEI embarked on a Capacity building program target
Vocational Training Centers (VTC’s) with the goal of teaching them to adapt some of the
most important principles and processes of the BEST to their programs. This program has
now reached 96 VTC’s across Kenya and indirectly helped to reach over 6000 youth. As
part of the strategy, the BEST model program has now been enhanced to include skills
training and support in the Government mandate Competency Based Education and
Training Framework (CBET) which gives beneficiary VTC’s and youth an important
advantage as this program has only recently started. Sixty CAP YEI staff have been trained
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in the Competency Based Education and Training (CBET) approach, which has
subsequently become an important part of BEST model delivery
CAP YEI’s has developed 18 courses under the BEST model, 6 of which have been
accredited by CDACC. CAP WDI and CAP YEI have existing staff complement of 154
representing most of the skills and program carried out.
To properly handle the monitoring and evaluation of the programs and/or projects, CAP
YEI/CAP WDI developed an in-house Management Information System that is used to
generate regular and accurate data for project monitoring and management. In 2016 CAP
YEI embarked on a process of ISO certification primarily as a strategy for ensuring quality
and standards across all the domains. CAP YEI expects to be ISO certified by July 2018.
2.1 Eligibility to CAP YEI Training
The youth applying to join CAPYEI are not discriminated against on the basis of tribe, color,
gender, religion, socio-economic status, disability. CAPYEI is open to young Kenyans who
meet the following criteria but not in order of importance:
Unemployed: Our first call is to all unemployed youth between 18-25 years to train
them and then place them into employment or support them to venture into
entrepreneurship. These youth are vulnerable because with lack of a source of
income, and our intervention brings change by assisting them access employment
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that translates to money in the bank. We help steer them from effects of systemic
poverty that may lead them to being radicalized or into unlawful means of income
generation.
Family Focus: We take only one youth per household for maximum reach out in the
community. This is because CAPYEI believes that reaching one youth per household
will translate to as many families reached.
Gender: The current gender ratio of male to female in CAPYEI programs is 40:60 in
percentage. The program targets to reach a minimum of 35% young women and
CAPYEI currently has reached 612 female students that constitute of 60% of the
youth in the program in Kilifi. The Coastal region experiences a unique cultural,
religious, geographical and historical condition that makes it even harder for young
women to take part in CAPYEI.
School Dropouts: These youth could have dropped out of primary school or
secondary school because of various issues like they might have had no money to
support schooling, pregnancy and giving birth, radicalization, some might have
become caregivers, or were expelled due to drugs, or other misbehavior in school.
CAPYEI seeks to empower these youth through training and linking them to
opportunities to earn income.
Geographical scope: CAPYEI reaches the youth from the most geographically
disadvantaged areas in the Kilifi communities.
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Working with administration officials: CAPYEI works with administration
officials like chiefs as opposed to the Political leaders. This is because working with
chiefs has proven recruitment and retention and follow-up results. They know the
trainees families, homes and are respectable members of the society.
Orphanages: CAPYEI centers provide safe, family-style environment for orphans
and vulnerable youth that are targeted from orphanages. These could be due to loss
of parents or abandonment leaving them nowhere else to go.
3.0 CAP YEI Presence in Kiambu County
The county plays Host of 1 CAP YEI center.
Kiambu Model Center
The center was opened in 2017 and is under MasterCard Funded centers in Nairobi region.
Before setting up a centre in Kiambu County, a market scan was conducted, that revealed
that the following sector had opportunities for the youth in Kiambu County:
Hospitality
Hairdressing and Beauty
The center has so far completed 1 batch for phase 2 and currently enrolled the 2nd
batch with 71 trainees undergoing training.
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The CAP YEI labor market survey covered 10 sectors: Building and Construction,
Hospitality, Information Technology, Retail, Welding and Fabrication, Carpentry and
woodwork, Electronics, Automobile, Security and Hair and Beauty. Considering the number
of employees per entry level profile and employee turnover rate within these sectors
together with the dominant sectors which the respondents highlighted, the survey
identified the most dominant and promising sectors to be hair & beauty, hospitality,
automobile, welding & fabrication and building & construction.
The major recruitment methods noted in most establishments were apprenticeship and
referrals. The profiles for referrals were mainly friends, family and workmates. Due to
expansion to Nairobi into neighboring towns like Kiambu town, many people are seeking
rental houses in Kiambu hence high development of building and construction industry and
high demand for matatus and motorcycles for transportation in the area. Increasing urban
population also resulted to development of hair and beauty industry and hospitality sector.
Welding and fabrication sector also develop with the development of auto mobile sector
and building & construction industry.
Despite the presence of many NGOs and CBOs in Kiambu, their priority is on health, drugs
and substance abuse campaign, advocacy and environmental management and
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conservation. This therefore presents a good opportunity for agencies like the CAP to focus
on training and development.
The possibility of the CAP to ensure placement of its trainees or place them into
entrepreneurship opportunities, is of great contribution towards addressing the menace of
youth unemployment. The life skills training will also help youth out drug and substance
abuse and other social evils. The major problems facing industries when recruiting for
entry level profiles namely poor interpersonal skills, skill gaps, dishonesty, lack of self-
confidence are effectively addressed by the CAP YEI’s BEST model that incorporate life and
technical skill trainings. The community and the youth have expressed their delight
towards the CAP YEI’s program given its BEST model and the community has provided
necessary support to ensure that their youth benefit from this program.
Even though there is a technical training institution in the area that is Kiambu Institute of
Science and Technology (KIST) which is offering diploma and certificate courses in
mechanical and auto electrical engineering, hospitality among other courses, not all
students manage to join the institutions. According to Kiambu county government website,
the secondary completion rate in the area is 92%, meaning 8% fail usually drop out of
school every year due to various challenges. For those who complete fourth form, not all of
the join colleges and vocational institutions. This is because some fail to meet the minimum
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required grade to join the institution and some fail to afford the fees, therefore quite a
number of youths are disadvantaged in the area and are lying idle resulting into rise in
insecurity, crime and drug abuse among the youth.
Recommendations
Considering the dominance of hair & beauty industry, hospitality industry, automobile
industry, building & construction and welding & fabrication industries in Kiambu town and
its environment and the existing potential for future growth in the industries due to
expansion of Nairobi city into neighboring town like Kiambu, the survey therefore
recommended that it would be of significant benefit for the youths and community at large
in Kiambu for CAP YEI to come in Kiambu town to open a technical training center to train
on hair dressing & beauty, hospitality, motorcycle mechanical engineering, masonry and
welding courses. This will economically empower the disadvantaged youth in the area to
take advantage of the opportunities available in Kiambu town and its environment. This
will result into reduction in the challenges facing the youth like insecurity, crime, drug
abuse and unemployment. With this knowledge, CAP YEI set up a centre in Kiambu.
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Enrollment Statistics-Kiambu
BATCH NO TOTAL ENROLLED MALE FEMALE
1 68 30 38
TOTAL 68 30 38
The table shows gender analysis for batch 1
Enrollment Gender Analysis
30
38
Batch 1
Male Female
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The above graph shows that Kiambu center has trained a total of 68 trainees since the
beginning of phase 2.
The chart above show analysis of gender enrollment for batch 1
Age Wise Enrollment Analysis
BATCH
NO
TOTAL
ENROLLED
18-20 21-23 24-26 Above 26
1 68 41 24 3
44%
56%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
male female
Gender wise Enrollments
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The table above shows analysis of gender enrollment for batch 1
Course Wise Enrollment in Kiambu
Total enrolled is 139 trainees where 68 are under internship and 71 in training
60%
35%
5% 0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
18-20 21-23 24-26 Above 26
Age Analysis Batch 1-5
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10
15
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35
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Hospitality Hairdressing and beauty TOTAL
Male Female
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5.0 Photo Gallery
CAPYEI trainees during training, placements and internships
6.0 CAP YEI Centres in Kenya
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