Mandera County Government through the County Ministry of ICT, Trade, Industrialization, Tourism, Wildlife and Co-operative Development sent 15 member selected Jua Kali delegates to represent the County in the ongoing National Jua Kali conference organized by The Council of Governors at the Bomas of Kenya, 27th – 29th august,2014.The theme of the conference is building a skill-based county enterprise economy. The main goal of this conference is to impart civic knowledge on the implementation of devolution, influence democratic governance and change, accountable leadership and catalyze the Jua Kali sector’s role/participation in the socio-economic development of the Counties through sparking an enterprise-based economy. The National Jua Kali Devolution Conference, one of its kind in the history of mankind has to drawn together in excess of five thousand (5,000) delegates, among them forty (40) Jua Kali artisans from each of the 47 Counties totaling to 1,880 Jua Kali members 15 being from Mandera to participate in the National Jua Kali Products Exhibition and a side on Symposium. The Mandera County delegates exhibited various unique locally manufactured and valued products as shown by the photos below. The delegates will also participate in a tour of all National institutions with a mandate relevant to the Jua Kali sector development which include the Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute (KIRDI), Numerical Machining Complex (NMC), Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), Technology Development Centre (TDC), Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS), National industrial Training Authority (NITA), Kenya Industrial Property Institute (KIPI) and National Youth service among others. During the conferences plenary, it is expected that the retired President, H.E Daniel Arap Moi who since the inception of the sector has been its patron would relinquish his patronage to the seating President H.E Uhuru Kenyatta as the National Jua Kali patronage who will in turn decorate the seating Governors as the Jua Kali patrons in their respective Counties. The conference anticipates to simultaneously seeing veteran Jua Kali leadership receive national awards in appreciation of their contribution to the sector development.
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:27:37 +0000
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