Diaspora investment conference to focus on skills transfer, labour migration

Kenya Diaspora Alliance Chairperson Dr Shem Ochuodho during an interview. The diaspora lobby is organising an international investment conference next month. [Peter Wakaba, Standard]

This year's edition of the Kenya Diaspora Homecoming Convention will focus heavily on skills transfer and labour migration and the opportunities that this can generate for those living abroad and for Kenyans back at home.

The conference to be held in December is using the drive by the government to prioritise the export of labour as a pillar of job and wealth creation by bringing together stakeholders to explore linkages that smoothen the process of migration and the subsequent reinvestment of money generated from remittances.