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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kobado",
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        "legal_name": "John Owuor Onyango Kobado",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to second this particular Sessional Paper. This Paper will serve to help reform and regulate the training environment. Two, it will also help to reform skills acquisition, competitiveness and, more so, the competencies of the trainers. In this country, we have broadly about three platforms of training. If you look at what is stated in the Paper, attachment and training have been, for a long time, treated separately. But in my view, attachment is just a stage in the training process. Training would start with theory where the trainees are given theoretical knowledge, and then they move into laboratories where they do practical work. They are then exposed to the work environment. That is what we call industrial attachment. This House has already established three authorities that provide the platform for training for this country. One is the Technical Vocational Education Training Authority (TVETA). This is an establishment which is formal and conducts structured training. We also have the National Industrial Training Authority (NITA) established by an Act of Parliament where we have quite a bit of formal and largely unstructured trainings. Here is where we talk about attachments, internships and apprenticeships. Thirdly, we have the Micro and Small Enterprise Authority (MSEA), which is also established by an Act of Parliament. At MSEA, training is informal and largely unstructured. There is need to have all those bodies coordinate their programmes. This can only be done with this Sessional Paper No. 2, to be able to harmonize all those. You realize there is serious mismatch of skills; particularly the skills that are impacted by the training institutions and the skills that are required in the industry. There is a serious mismatch. Already, this House has passed a Bill on National Qualifications Authority to be able to harmonize those various training activities with education, so that we can establish a career path for those who are training and career progression, which is lacking at the moment. This policy will require various institutions to draw up their curriculum because if you look at the informal sector there is no curriculum. Those people are just training in haphazard manner. If you look at the industrial trainings, those are not institutions that are established for training, but institutions that are providing the real work situation as a matter of training. There is need to come up with a curriculum so that that those people are certified. At the end of it all, if you are going to use the National Qualification Authority, we should be able to know that at this level a person who has trained through exposure or apprenticeship has acquired that level of skill and can be matched with the fellow who has been in a formal structured training institution. This is important and can only be brought about by this particular policy paper. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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