Enhancing women’s employment opportunities: skills-building and work-readiness

Young Kenyan women participating in a skills-building program and researchers and policymakers from East Africa reflect on the importance of technical- and soft-skills building to increase women’s participation in non-traditional sectors and in better, higher-paying jobs. Skills-building and work-readiness programs were a key topic at a workshop organized by the Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) – East Africa initiative, in Nairobi, Kenya, in October 2022.