Youth Consortium Kenya GET-IT Centre, Kenya

Wednesday, 09 December 2009 13:40

ImageThe Youth Consortium – Kenya was certified as a GET-IT Centre in June 2009!  The Centre’s main aim is to simultaneously combat both business illiteracy and IT illiteracy among youth in the Eldoret community. 

The first Training of Trainers course for the GET-IT curriculum, co-organised by HP and UNIDO, was held in Nairobi this July.  The registration of students aged between 16-25 for the GET-IT course commenced in October 2009, and the launch of the GET-IT Centre took place during the same month. 

To ensure that the GET-IT skills acquired by the participants of the training are being put to use, the Youth Consortium – Kenya is planning to regularly follow up with a cross section of the participants and to provide technical, and in some cases even financial, support for those youth interested in starting up their own business.

The Youth Consortium – Kenya hopes to champion the establishment of the GET-IT Kenya Network in order to create national visibility for the programme and enhance in-country sharing of information and best practices.  The Consortium is also planning to establish partnerships with private businesses, charitable organisations, and NGOs to nurture the entrepreneurial interests of the GET-IT students.

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Youth Consortium Kenya

The Youth Consortium - Kenya is a non–governmental, non-political, non-religious network of youth driven organisation registered and operating within North Rift region of the republic of Kenya.

The Consortium was initially started as a community-based organisation in November 2005 by a group of youth development makers involved in health activities, who observed that exclusion of youth from the decision-making processes was the main contributor to high youth vulnerability in situations dominated by ethnic conflict, economic hardship, socio-cultural exploitation, political manipulation, trade and technological infrastructure exploitation. The network provides a structure through which rural youth groups and community associate workers representing disadvantaged rural communities, can articulate their common needs and priorities, share their experiences and present their case to policymakers at the national level.

Currently the Consortium has a membership of 62 active youth groups implementing various activities including health-related activities, civic education, environmental management, income generating activities, sports, arts/theatre and recreation. The membership is drawn from applicants who identify with the vision, mission and objectives as constituted and pursued by the Consortium. The Consortium currently covers eight districts namely, Uasin Gishu, Marakwet, Keiyo, Transzoia, Baringo, Nandi, West-Pokot, and Kericho.