Match Infrastructural Development with People Empowerment

It is important to appreciate the fact that Kenya has embraced a policy of massive infrastructural development, in line with the aspirations of Vision 2030, now slightly less than one and a half decades away. These projects should propel the country towards achieving new levels of growth and economic progress, if the seemingly limitless opportunities are exhaustively exploited. The question that arises is whether the population is adequately empowered towards exploiting the respective opportunities.

At present, it is commonly agreed knowledge that in excess of 50% of Kenyan graduates are unemployable. Further, more than 80% of those employed are dissatisfied with their existing engagements, a situation that leads to at least 67% employees engaging in active job search. Does that scenario not yield massive wastage of human effort that leads to unexploited potential by all, including organizations and the nation as well?

Conversely, imagining that the current economy or marketplace cannot accommodate the numerous graduates constantly released by universities, can only be misleading, or at best an indicator that we are simply burying our heads in the sand. Why? People who are properly empowered will either easily acquire lucrative jobs, or create their own. It therefore implies that there must be something the matter with “the power to read and do what appertains to the degrees conferred,” in this country.

In that regard, how can we expect to excel when guided by the dynamics of the 20^th Century, which largely support education for formal employment. Does that not imply being in the 21^st Century only physically, but mentally in the 20^th Century? Incidentally, the dynamics of the current century are inclined towards harnessing and developing natural abilities, a situation that leads to unleashing full performance potential for all.  That is why the ongoing review of the school curriculum, will imperatively be expected to follow this game plan, if the desired results are likely to be achieved.

Meanwhile, during the first classes of an environmental science course, students study how rocks on the earth service give way to growth of moulds, followed by lichen and eventually trees, which naturally result to huge forests. Alongside, small crawling insects venture into the young vegetation.  The latter attracts small animals which also attracts other bigger ones in turn. The overall result if things happen naturally is the development of a fully grown ecosystem supporting a whole range of wildlife, before the encroachment of human beings.

Likewise, a certain pattern of growth activities takes shape whenever major roads are being constructed, especially through the rural or sometimes inhabited areas.  It all starts with enterprising women setting up strategic feeding points for the road construction workers. As the road works continue taking shape, an industrious villager will built a mabati kiosk at the roadside and install a kerosene pump for example.

Another one will join him and set up a charcoal business. This may be followed by another one who may soon set up a kiosk for selling consumables and domestic provisions. The new businesses are meanwhile served by suppliers heading towards the far end of the continually developing road.

As the businesses continue increasing, a market place is born, which may eventually become a small town complete with restaurants, and other recreational and entertainment facilities. This sequence of events including that of the ecosystem may be a representation of the occurrences, as concerted infrastructural developments continue taking shape. Continued rural electrification has also been yielding great opportunities of entrenching development in the counties. That has also been contributing to reversal of rural urban migration, a phenomenon that was in the past heightened by many years of economic stagnation.

Opening up of the rural countryside will inevitably create great employment and business opportunities that were previously inhibited by lack of access and poor infrastructural facilities. This situation can easily be understood through detouring from the Nairobi Naivasha road on the way to Nyahururu or vise versa. It is now possible to follow this relatively new road, which cuts through Kinagop constituency branching off from ‘Flyover’ and cutting through Engineer town and others, all the way to Ol kalau town.

Despite being slowed down by the meandering of the road that traverses alongside the Aberdare Ranges, it is a great experience exploring a part of the country that would ordinarily have been out of the way. One cannot fail to imagine the agony, such a productive area was undergoing, without tarmac or even all weather roads. Mind you, the Kinangop area feeds the city with most of its daily vegetable requirements amongst other farm produce.

Anybody who may have witnessed those recent developments can imagine the massive economic transformation that is now likely to be ushered in by the continued infrastructural development. So, we only need to lookout for opportunities arising from the new growth focus as we progressively approach year 2030, when we aspire to become a middle income nation.

Apparently, it is expected that the development focus anchored on the social, political and economic pillars will have facilitated the achievement of the desires of vision 2030. Nevertheless, achievement of the social pillar, which relates to empowerment of the human capital, needs to be properly aligned to the dynamics of the 21^st Century, as is now appropriately documented.

Only then shall we manage to identify and fully exploit the limitless opportunities associated with the transformation resulting from continued infrastructural development. Naturally, the end result will be adequate employment and wealth creation for all, as the government continues improving the enabling environment.

INITIAL EMPOWERMENT SOLUTIONS

1. An absolutely FREE 10 minute insightful presentation (in Nairobi only) on

(i)The prevailing national and organizational challenges

(ii)The genesis of the challenges and

(Iii) Impact of the challenges

The focus of this solution is to introduce (during organizational meetings) the life changing strategy guide titled “Career Dynamics in the 21st Century,” now approved for the school system by the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development.

2) A Two Hour seminar titled “Unleashing the Human Performance Potential,” based on the principles advocated in “Career Dynamics in the 21st Century” This is conducted for all employees without any limitation of numbers (fees depends on location). The seminar is already enormously popular in mainstream Churches and learning institutions.

3) A full day seminar titled “Maximum Performance Strategy.” This involves application of the principals advocated in “Career Dynamics in the 21st Century,” through an experiential learning process. The seminar accommodates 20 participants per session ((fees depends on location).

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