CAP YEI’S Project on the Road to Train TVET Trainers on Life Skills

Infusion of life skills into the TVET space helps the youth to explore their strengths and weaknesses, embark on life planning and goal-setting processes, and start building attitudes and behaviors that will enable them to become successful in the world of work or business. CAP Youth Empowerment Institute (TVET -05) as per the Young Africa Works in Kenya -TVET – CICan partnership engaged the partner TVET institutions within the Lake and Western Region clusters – National Polytechnical and Technical Training Institutes (TTIs) and their corresponding Mentee institutions on Life skills workshops, themed “Accelerated life skills interventions towards the success of TVET graduates within the workplace environment and society”

The technical trainers shall be life skills trainers going forward and will use the Level 6 Essential and Employer Engagement soft skills curriculum and its Assessment tools provided to give periodic feedback to the TVET learners to enhance positive behavioral change while at school, home, or workplace environment.

Institutional life skill champions were also identified during this training and up to 80 trainers from Keroka Technical Training Institute, Kisii National Polytechnic, Mawego Technical Training Institute, Kisumu National Polytechnic, Bondo Technical Training Institute, Sigalagala National Polytechnic, and their respective mentees joined in the training. 

Through the Master Trainers workshops and the partner institutional Life skills ToTs, we have been able to support over 850 TVET Trainers on Life skills incorporation into the Technical courses curriculum. The earlier trained Master trainers are the Life skills champions and are gladly influencing TVET systems by including Life skills training in the performance contracts at the institutional level. This move is aimed at making Level 6 Essential and Employer Engagement soft skills curriculum mandatory for all TVET learners, administration of the assessment and evaluation tools mandatory to bring about positive behavioral change of the TVET learners. A special mention to Bondo TTI for taking a leading role in institutionalizing Life skills training and its inclusion in their training calendar

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Behaviour Change Measurement Framework (BCMF) assessment is a key tool of sharing feedback to the learners on how they fare across 4 broad categories of Life skills that includes:   Personal, interpersonal, Cognitive and Employability and Work Behavior which are further assessed across 27 parameters of behavioural change competencies.

All supported TVET Trainers are given competency Curriculum, Occupational Standards and the Teaching and Learning Guide as starter packs together with the publications of research findings done by CAP YEI titled “What do Employers think about  Life skills” and How to ingrate Life skills in TVET among other resource materials for 21st century skills incorporation into the Technical courses.

A total of 24 TVET institutions are life skills incorporated into TVET space champions.