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Availability of Highly Skilled Human Resource In Kenya

The proportion of the youth (18-34 years), constitutes 25%. The youthful skilled population economically implies, there are lots of potential workers for the future in various areas of investment and a wider market for goods meant for the youth. The flexibility and adaptability to high technological changes will easily make the goods and services produced locally highly competitive. This in turn will act as an enabler for investment because of the availability of skilled affordable labour.
 

Kenya delivers +76.62% net return in USD terms in 2024, and Dividend yield ~5.96%, P/E ~6.15, P/BV ~1.32 (for MSCI Kenya as of August 29, 2025)

Kenya is part of OECD’s FDIRRI dataset showing willingness to liberalise. On Public integrity & governance, formal frameworks exist (strategy, oversight, accountability)

Though no African country except South Africa and Egypt are featured among the emerging markets in the top 25 in 2025. Kenya is regarded as mid-tier.

Kenya is 3rd globally in 2024 in terms of countries expected to carry the strongest investment momentum, with an index score of ~87.44

Science, Technology, and Innovation(STI) is very key in raising investment across all the sectors, the following programmes are been implemented;

  •  County Technology and Innovations Delivery Services
  •  Coordination of the Technology, Innovation, and Commercialization
  •  Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)
  •  Energy Technologies
  •  Nano-Sciences, Material Science, and New Production Technologies

The government is committed and determined to realize the constitutional right to healthcare by delivering a Universal Health Coverage (UHC) system as follows: 

  • Provide National Health Insurance Fund cover­age for all Kenyans without exclusion in the policy of “Leaving No one Behind”;
  • Employ and initiate payment for community health workers who shall form part of the Pri­mary Health Care system;

Kenya has invested heavily in ICT infrastructure and services over the last two decades. This infrastructure includes six submarine fiber-optic cables offering broadband connectivity, 9000km of terrestrial fiber-optic cable connecting virtually all country headquarters, and geographical and popu­lation mobile broadband coverage of 56 percent of the 96 percent respectively. 

The Government is establishing these parks in all 47 counties with aggregation centers and value-addition sections aimed at achieving the following;

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