The role of vocational training centers in socioeconomic empowerment of women in Nakuru Town, Kenya

Esther Awuor Ogema,Zablon Mutongu Bundi,Anthony Mkutu,Daniel Omollo

doi:10.20525/ijrbs.v10i3.1077

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Abstract

The project sought to look into the role of the Community vocational training centers in the wider socio-economic empowerment of women. It aimed to find out the effects of skills training on social-economic empowerment of women, examine the impact of Technical and Vocational Education and Training on social-economic empowerment of women and explore ways of improving the performance of Technical and Vocational Education and Training on social-economic empowerment of women. The study adopted a quantitative descriptive and explanatory design. This way the detailed description comes before the final explanation. The study primarily depended on questionnaires to get study data. Findings indicate that indeed vocational training can enable women to create employment opportunities and give them access to the job market. The findings identified equal pay, access to education (including vocational training), Gender equality in the workplace, respect for human rights and non-discrimination, and gender-sensitive recruitment as factors that TVETs use to reduce discrimination and improve women’s quality of life. Vocational training centers are still subject to negative perceptions where people think that they are “lesser” institutions. The vocational centers need to shed the label that they are for failures, that they are lesser institutions, and that they are not prestigious enough. Improvement can also come through advocacy. Overall, the study ascertained that vocational training provides positive outcomes especially in the lives of women and girls. They get to enjoy increased wages, employment mobility, employment opportunities, entrepreneurship and social transformation. Therefore, there should be an increase in the number of vocational centers.

Highlights

Vocational training is an avenue through which a society creates a pool of skilled manpower that is capable of increasing industrial output
This study sought to look into the role of the Community vocational training centers in the wider socio-economic empowerment of women Nakuru Town East Sub-County. It compared women who have gone through TVET and those who have not to see if the training made an impact on their quality of life
Vocational education gives women Access to marketable job skills that leads to employment opportunities and financial capital

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Introduction

Vocational training is an avenue through which a society creates a pool of skilled manpower that is capable of increasing industrial output. There are some sectors are male dominated meaning the male numbers effectively shuts female participation out This gap needs to be reduced if not eliminated in all aspects of the market. Community vocational training centers present women with an opportunity to have marketable skills that they can use to get jobs or become self-employed (Falavigna, Ragazzi, & Sella, 2015). This study sought to look into the role of the Community vocational training centers in the wider socio-economic empowerment of women Nakuru Town East Sub-County. It compared women who have gone through TVET and those who have not to see if the training made an impact on their quality of life

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Results of vocational training

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