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PAST & CURRENT PROJECTS
PROJECT
TITLE:- YOUTH
UNEMPLOYMENT REDUCTION IN KENYA THROUGH THE USE OF INFORMATION
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) AND TOURISM AS STRATEGIC
TOOLS FOR DEVELOPMENT
Executive summary
Information and communication technology (ITC) especially
the Internet has portrayed African countries of which
Kenya is an exception as poverty stricken and powerless.
But the same channels can be used as strategic tools
for development and empowerment of these developing
nations.This project that seeks to use ICT as a strategic
tool to reduce the rate of youth unemployment in Kenya.
This project will use a sectoral approach as opposed
to multi-sectoral approach since most projects in Kenya
have failed due to generalization.
This project will only target the Tourism industry and
if the project successeds it will be replicated to other
sectors. This project will be achieve its objectives
by setting up an Internet based career centre that will
provide advice to job seekers and create a link between
jobseekers and employers in the tourism industry. Kenya's
tourism industry has over 100 training institutes that
train in tourism, ironically all of them train for white
collar jobs and they don't empower the youth with job
hunting skills. This has created a bloated labour market.
The Centre will create an internet based CV database,
which will be marketed to the potential job seekers
in and outside Kenya. The webpage will also provide
information pertaining job hunting skills (writing cover
letters, compiling CVs and attending interviews) and
availing information pertaining entrepreneurial skills.
This project will use the Information Communication
Technology (ICT), especially the Internet as a strategic
tool to help in staff appraisal and capacity building.
The project will be based in the APTDC headquarters
in Nairobi-Kenya. The services of APTDC will cut across
the country without any hitches because Nairobi is the
capital city and most of the tourism activities are
undertaken here.
PROJECT TITLE:- THE
DEVELOPMENT OF A MAASAI CULTURAL CENTRE IN EXCHANGE
OF SPARING OF LIONS (PHASE II)
Executive Summary
There has been a saga that involves the killing of Nairobi
National Park's lions by the maasai morans (Maasai Woriors)
after they attack their livestock in Kitengela Area.
The park has an electric fence on three sides with the
exception of the southern side than acts as a migration
corridor connecting the park to the Amboseli National
Park. This has captured the public's attention and has
become an issue of national interest. There has been
a lot of interest in the plight of Nairobi National
Park lions, depredation of livestock at Kitengela area
and the resulting killing of the lions by the Maasai
morans. Being dependant on the livestock alone the maasai
morans have killed about 27 of 40 lions in the park
in the name of protecting their livestock.
In response to this APTF has already initiated a project
that is aimed at providing an incentive in the form
of a Maasai Cultural Village, so that the community
can appreciate the wildlife heritage as a resource that
they can exploit and in return live harmoniously with
the wildlife. The first phase of the project has been
competed with a lot of success, although so far the
project has not accrued any tangible benefits for the
community the commitment shown by the community to the
project is something to be happy about. The second phase
is aimed at producing tangible benefits to the community
inform of dividends and other benefits. In brief the
first phase was able to achieve the following; creating
of conservation awareness through conservation education,
organising the community into a group, drawing of a
constitution for the group, negotiating for donation
land from one of the families, selling of shares to
members, registration of members, designing the architectural
design of the cultural, building of a few manyattas,
recruitment of scouts who offer security, training of
the dancers, training of the community guides who will
be guiding the tourists and provision of microfinance
skills to the community members. The Phase II on the
other hand is geared towards the attaining the following
objectives; Construction of the remaining structures,
marketing of the village, collection of biodata in Kitengela
Conservancy, and construction of a bridge to link the
village with Nairobi National Park.
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