On Friday, more than 127 trainees who were chosen from a variety of KAM Membership organisations were honoured for their involvement in training initiatives.
These training sessions focused on teaching knowledge through skill growth, skill improvement, and skill transformation.
The three main areas of attention in the training were improving the ability of machine operators with numerous talents, training machine mechanics operators, and improving supervisory abilities for mid-level management.
The event was honoured by the presence of His Excellency Maarten Brouwer, the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Kenya.
Abel Kamau, the Trade Policy Manager for KAM and the KAM Chief Executive, emphasised the critical necessity of matching the skill sets of the Kenyan workforce with the needs of industry during the occasion.
Additionally, he emphasised that businesses saw increased productivity in project participants as their abilities developed.
The IDH’s programme manager, Ms. Caroline Ngumba, emphasised the industry’s enormous growth potential in the textile and leather fields. She emphasised the significance of addressing sustainability issues, especially factors relating to social issues like training for employees’ capacity-building, which would positively influence growth.
Ambassador Maarten Brouwer stressed the importance of combining innovation, knowledge, and financial backing to generate practical solutions during his keynote speech.
In order to close the industry’s training shortages, he further emphasised the significance of public and private sector cooperation.
