State urges traders to have skills certified

Traders sell vegetables at Marikiti market, Nairobi. [File, Standard]

Kenyans in informal employment, including mama mbogas (grocers) and cleaners, have been asked to have their skills certified under the government's Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) policy.

Stanley Maindi, the director of RPL delivery unit at the State department of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET), says the process to recognise all skills that are not certified at formal institutions was underway.