Skills Development Agenda Projects.
Agriculture Apprenticeship Project
Apprentices graduating from the project are skilled, thoughtful, self-reliant employees who can improvise when things go wrong or when they see an opportunity to improve an existing system. Apprenticeship project is designed to reach self-employed small scale farmers, graduates with no hands on technical skills and vulnerable individual aspiring to learn agribusiness. The apprenticeship project is a competence based education training and approved by Technical Vocational Education and Training Authority in Kenya.
The apprenticeship project has trained over 500 farm managers and 5,000 commercial farmers since inception.
NICHE Project. Institutional Capacity Building.
NICHE project was involved in institutional capacity development of implementing partner organizations. It was funded by the Dutch Organization for Internationalization in Education (NUFFIC) and its goal is to strengthen Latia’s capacity to provide training and business support services in a sustainable way.
The project is engaged in assisting growing implementing partners strengthen their systems, procedures, human resources and structures for quality programs.
BMZ Skill Up !
LRC Foundation has partnered with Welthungerhilfe to offer the ‘’Skill Up!’’ training program to create prospects for young people in the agriculture sector. The project facilitates agribusiness and horticulture training at Latia Agribusiness Institute.
