The National Youth Opportunities Towards Advancement (NYOTA) program has announced that it will conduct a Business Development Skills (BDS) Training for selected beneficiaries across various counties.
In a notice on Thursday, November 13, NYOTA said the training program will commence from Friday, November 14, to Monday, November 17.
Selected beneficiaries will receive official SMS notifications indicating the venue of their training. The training is mandatory and selected beneficiaries must attend to qualify for the Sh50,000 business capital support.
“Attendance of the BDS training is mandatory for all selected beneficiaries to qualify for the next step, which is receiving business capital support under the NYOTA Project,” the notice reads.
According to the notice, the training sessions will take place in the following counties:
Lower Eastern: Kitui, Machakos, and Makueni
North Rift: Uasin Gishu, Trans Nzoia, West Pokot, Turkana, Baringo, and Laikipia
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Upper Eastern: Meru, Tharaka Nithi, Embu, and Isiolo
South Rift & Maa: Nakuru, Narok, Kajiado, and Nandi
Nyanza & South Rift: Siaya, Kisumu, Homa Bay, Migori, Kisii, Nyamira, Kericho, and Bomet.
The notice comes days after President Ruto announced that the government will begin disbursing a further Sh4.4 billion to NYOTA grantees from next week.
“I am informed by CS [Wycliffe Oparanya] and his team that they will be training the rest of the country from this Friday. So from next week, we will disburse another Ksh4.4 billion to the people who will have been trained and identified,” Ruto said.
NYOTA is a five-year transformative agenda by the government, funded by the World Bank. It aims to empower youths by addressing unemployment, income insecurity, and limited savings.
The programme aims to provide Sh50,000 in grants for young people selected from each of the 1,450 wards in Kenya, enabling them to launch business ventures. The first batch of beneficiaries receivied funds on November 7.
